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Sh*t happened 8/7/15: GOP debate, Jon Stewart says goodbye, more
One of our civilization's highest priestesses once asked, "Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods/where's the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds?" Well, there was only...
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Patton Oswalt, who comes to the Straz later this month, had the best GOP...
Last night's Fox News/Facebook GOP debate pretty much made fun of itself, if you couldn't tell by our liveblogging of the event. The hilarity and preposterousness was so rapid-fire that it was hard to...
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Gulfport Residents Ask Gulfport to Sue St. Petersburg Over Raw Sewage
Some Gulfport residents want the city to sue St. Petersburg. Others want Gulfport to stand up for itself some other way, they told Gulfport councilwoman Yolanda Roman. Although everyone had different...
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Sh*t happened 8/10/15: Corruption, carbon monoxide, Ferguson
Politicians bending the rules — it never goes out of style. You know what should go out of style? People getting hurt during peaceful protests.FRIDAY, AUG. 7:A Largo city supervisor has been arrested...
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Uber seems likely to stick around in St. Pete, unlike other, less cool areas
The ride share service Uber, or as we like to call it, conversation roulette, has had tough times recently as it tries to fend off attempts to shut it down. Taxi cab drivers, who obviously see a loss...
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Sh*t happened 8/11/15: Shipt, PSTA, Red Rose Inn resurrection
Congratulations on surviving another Monday. Let's celebrate by thumbing our noses at it one last time:App-powered delivery service Shipt, which recently began ferrying Publix groceries in the Bay...
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After heavy flooding, it's street sludge or bay sludge in Tampa Bay area
Infrastructure is a most unsexy word — until human waste flows into the picture, at which point it gets both more popular and more, uh, visceral. Perhaps that's why those who designed the facilities...
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Anti-discrimination bill proposed at state level includes LGBT
You can now marry whomever you want wherever you are in the country. But in Florida, you can still get fired from your job for your sexual orientation or gender identity; there's no law that prevents...
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Reddit "pizza hero" a bust, but it was a good yarn
It's a classic tale of too-good-to-be-true, but it's also a demonstration of how far perseverance can take you. Last week, when a biblical deluge flooded the streets of South Tampa, a man was...
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Sh*t happened 8/12/15: Tampa's food scene soars, Perry goes broke, beer truck...
"I've heard there's nothing you can't make look good," said the client."That's right, sir," replied the agent. "Why don't you tell me what you want spun?""Tuesday," said the client."Sorry," said the...
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Sweet! Glenn Beck says St. Pete makes list of "cities to avoid like the plague"
Good news, everyone. On his radio show Tuesday, Glenn Beck said St. Pete is among the 15 American cities everyone (i.e. the oafs that take him seriously) should stay away from."These are the cities...
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Times teases investigative report on Pinellas with slick but depressing graphics
If you know anybody who works at a failing school (or work at one yourself), you're probably well aware of the hopelessness those facilities tend to generate. Teachers are overworked, students are...
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Fighting for Midtown: Five people hope to represent St. Pete’s poorest...
Wedged between Gulfport, downtown St. Pete and Pinellas Point, with a northern boundary that zags from Fifth Avenue North to Central, District 7 comprises predominantly African-American neighborhoods,...
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Trop or Not? St. Pete Council Dist. 7 candidates' takes on the Rays saga
This week, we profiled the five candidates running for St. Pete's District 7 City Council seat. The was plenty of ground to cover. One thing we thought we'd give special attention to was each...
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Sh*t happened 8/13/15: Glenn Beck is an idiot, and other unassailable truths
You're nearly there. (For the case of this blog, "there" means "the weekend, during which you'll likely have to work at least a little, because that's what we've let happen to civilization.") Just in...
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Another mega-development slated for Channelside (Spoiler: It's purdy)
If you're a fan of tall, shiny buildings like the one rendered above and you live in Tampa, you are in luck today, probably. That's because Port Tampa Bay has just announced its "vision plan" for a...
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Bush v. Gore might actually be a thing again, Florida
The 2016 presidential election is starting to look like political Nick at Night. Well, you know, if you replaced wistful nostalgia with a resigned shrug followed by an embrace of what's familiar....
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Sh*t happened 8/14/15: Port Tampa redesign, FEMA, panthers
Here's the stuff from yesterday. Be careful with it; some of it's kinda enrage-y.Port Tampa Bayunveiled some pretty seriously ambitious redevelopment plans for 9 million square feet of land north of...
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Buckhorn media liaison announces own replacement
If you've ever worked as a reporter, you know how media relations people — the gatekeepers to many of our elected officials, high-level corporate officials as well as candidates — are a mixed bag....
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South St. Pete council candidates all support marijuana decriminalization, to...
By now, the five candidates hoping to represent disproportionately impoverished District 7 on St. Pete City Council are probably pretty sick of talking about how they'd weigh in on the Tampa Bay Rays...
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