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Transforming Tampa Bay: Preserving Grand Central Avenue
Sometimes a funny thing happens on the way to an architectural mishap. Questions are raised, plans are reconsidered, and eureka! Better design happens. That’s the apparent outcome (so far) of a...
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Talking Points: How to discuss issues with conservative relatives over the...
With a major holiday this weekend, many of us will attend family or social gatherings where the guests will include people — or to be more specific, relatives — with whom we might not agree on...
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Sh*t happened 7/2/15: Katie Golden, Rick Scott's millions, bad...
Have you gotten your hot dogs? Your fireworks? Your alcohol to make the former palatable and the latter potentially lethal? "Nope," you say. "I like to put things off until doing them is actually a...
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$3.25 Billion to Florida From BP over Deepwater Horizon
Just five short years after pumping an astonishing amount of oil into the Gulf of Mexico when a deepwater rig exploded near the northern coast of the Gulf or Mexico, BP has reached a deal with the...
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NASCAR Trades Navy Jack for Old Glory in Daytona
Not all symbols of the Deep South are clinging to an outdated symbol of "heritage," so hold your NASCAR jokes, please. The family-owned stock-car racing organization will take your rebel flags and...
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WordCamp Tampa partners with veterans support organization
WordCamp Tampa has announced a new partner for the 2015 edition of the annual technology conference focused on the WordPress format and its development. The nonprofit Happy Joe has joined the event,...
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Sh*t happened 7/3/15: HIV, NASCAR hates the south, Katie Golden home
What are you doing? Get off the computer. Get outside, and get an early start on your sunburn.Florida is seeing the highest number of new HIV cases in the nation, with Hillsborough County seeing the...
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St. Pete's Plan to NOT Jail Teens Appears to Work
Who would have thought not treating a 13-year-old, first-time offender like a hardened criminal would help the kid make better choices? In St. Pete, early statistics — released yesterday morning by...
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St. Pete Preservation to City Council: Preserve the 'Burg, FFS
History be damned? Not quite. Not if Emily Elwyn, president of St. Pete Preservation, and her board have anything to say about it. As its name suggests, St. Pete Preservation has a single-minded...
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Sh*t happened 7/6/15: Police body cams, America's oldest bald eagle dies,...
"Me?" He passed her the joint, and pushed the blanket down past the staircase of his ribs. "I remember pouring out a bottle of water somebody left in our freezer at a party, this was '14, '15. It was...
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Bondi's next (and, we hope, last) stand: solar energy
Not that it's surprising, but Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has deemed blocking a possible voter-driven embrace of solar power worthy of taxpayer dollars. A surprisingly diverse coalition — as...
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Group wants to hoist unity flag near giant Confederate flag in East Hillsborough
As the at-times insane debate over whether the Confederate flag should fly on government grounds continues, so, too, do protests in support of as well as against those flags that fly on private land...
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ARE YOU READY FOR SOME...Pier negotiations?
After an expected, roughly two-month lull, St. Pete city officials are set to take up the first batch of decisions on the city's favorite first-world problem, the newly approved Pier Park design...
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Sh*t happened 7/7/15: Unity flag, Rays go All-Stars, Bucs license plate
What are you doing here? It's shark week! Well, as long as you stopped by...A group of localshas started a crowdfunding campaign to raise a "unity flag" close to the now-famous Confederate battle flag...
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Tampa ranks high on recreation list
When it comes to listicles ranking cities and states on their various attributes, the internet hasn't been very nice to Tampa Bay or the state of Florida. While a list or two has deemed us best...
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First (organized) "Cannathon" in state to tout medical marijuana to treat...
The fate of medical marijuana is still up in the air in Florida, where a madcap band of varied interests—some highly monied, some unfoundedly fearful—narrowly defeated a popular medical marijuana...
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Sh*t happened 7/8/15: More flag news (ugh), shady lawyers (derf), dangerous...
It's Wednesday. You're halfway there. Things are looking up! Just kidding. What, did you sleep through yesterday completely? In today's flag news — because we've got daily freakin' flag updates now...
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Best of the Bay is upon us. Tell us which pols you love — and loathe
We've now entered that stretch of weeks between the Fourth and Labor Day weekend known for oppressive heat, even more oppressive A/C, scary storms and those intermittent beach days that make it all...
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Report: Environmental enforcement, fines down dramatically under Scott
Those of you who have lived in the Tampa Bay region for decades probably have noticed the better water quality in the bay and other local waterways due to intensive cleanup efforts, stricter...
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Jeb!: you need to work longer hours
The Democratic National Committee caught themselves some fodder today when former Florida governor Jeb! Bush, one of the Republican guys who wants to be president, said something that could get...
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