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Tampa event to highlight Obama climate milestone
President Obama's Clean Power Plan was years in the making. It aims to drastically produce emissions from power plants across the country by 2030. It's no wonder environmentalists are rejoicing, but,...
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Sh*t happened 8/18/15: Tampa rated best, Zimmerman's art for sale, pumpkin...
After a much-needed break from all the bad news, Sh*t Happened is back with some good news! (And also bad news, derf.)Tampatopped Money.com's list of "Best Places to Live 2015" for cities in the...
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Overwhelming opposition to St. Pete historic preservation ordinance? Maybe not.
The debate over whether to make it easier for some St. Petersburg neighborhoods to designate themselves as historic comes to a head Thursday. St. Pete City Council will weigh the ordinance, which has...
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Sheila Scott-Griffin, St. Pete Council candidate, calls out partisan mailers
Don't laugh, but races at the city level are supposed to be nonpartisan. That's why party involvement in the five-person primary for St. Pete's City Council District 7 (south side) seat is irking...
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Florida House goes full Florida House on redistricting
After hours of talking shit about the Florida Supreme Court, GOP lawmakers in the State House passed new maps reshaping the state's congressional districts, which is why lawmakers are in Tallahassee...
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Sh*t happened 8/19/15: Female Rangers, stupid crimes
Good morning! Some truly inspiring news up front, and then, well, it's kind of all downhill from there. For the first time ever, two womenwill graduate from the U.S. Army's Ranger School at Fort...
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Oh. Yes. Bad Lip Reading releases GOP debate video
Bad Lip Reading, which is just like it sounds, made the 2012 election in our book. BLI's past achievements have included:• A surreal video very inaccurately dubbing words over Herman Cain's campaign...
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Pier dismantling begins; Friday event will honor the pyramid
The bulldozers and backhoes are cranking at the head of the St. Pete Pier. The inverted pyramid, constructed in the early seventies, is still there, mind you, so those of the opinion that the building...
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State backs off Planned Parenthood...or does it?
As it turns out, Governor Rick Scott's administration may have been a bit off-base in its claim that three Planned Parenthood clinics in Florida were performing abortions at later points in...
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Abstaining from the facts: Florida’s lack of a sex ed policy may be screwing...
It wasn’t a typical permission slip, but Mona Mangat signed it. Ostensibly, a group known as More 2 Life was giving a presentation on “life choices” before her daughter’s seventh grade class at...
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School of thought: Florida schools are ripe for potential church-state...
It’s a new school year. That means new books. New clothes. New classmates. New subjects. New potential for others, intentionally or otherwise, to impose their beliefs on you in ways that might make...
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Sh*t happened 8/20/15: Tourism record, health-code violations, cigars,...
Let's relive yesterday with the same joyful recollection and enthusiasm for life we'd exhibit trying to get back to our car from the police station after a night of drinking Fireball with someone we...
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USDA files complaint against private Dade City zoo
A Pasco County wildlife attraction, Dade's City Wild Things, is under fire for the way it treats some of its residents, namely, juvenile tigers that it allows visitors to swim with for $200 a pop. The...
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Sh*t happened 8/21/15: Rick Scott settlement, Rays' McGee out, Buffalo Bill's...
In celebration of Friday's arrival, let's just blow through this and go get some barbecue, OK? OK:Rick Scott, Florida's governor and also a villain from a 1930s movie-house serial, is defending the...
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St. Pete modifies historic preservation rules after very, very, very long...
By the time St. Pete City Council members passed a set of changes to its current historic preservation ordinance, 1:30 a.m., their chatter was the ambient music of our quasi-dreamscapes, and probably...
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"Colossal failure" marks end of Florida special session on redistricting
Remember a couple of months ago when the Florida House and Senate couldn't agree over whether to expand Medicaid, and nearly put the state's budget in jeopardy? Well, it's time to make way for Impasse...
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City bids adieu to inverted pyramid amid sinister undercurrents of...a petition
The weather couldn't have been better. The crowd was big, but not overwhelming. Local emissaries and media were hanging around, taking in the city's sentimental farewell to the upside-down pyramid....
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Florida to make marriage licenses gender-neutral
Friday marked the anniversary of the anniversary of District Judge Robert Hinkle’s ruling that struck down the state's gay marriage ban. On the eve of that anniversary, LGBT equality advocates saw...
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Sh*t happened 8/24/15: Pier wake, RIP Merl Reagle, SeaWorld's damage control,...
The weekend before school starts again is never the rush of last-minute joycrimes and bad ideas one fears it might be; you gotta give the kids a week to get bored again.FRIDAY, AUGUST 21:Florida's...
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Brains behind sewage snafu "retires" in St. Pete
In the wake of Shitgate 2015/PooNami, the city has announced St. Petersburg Public Works Administrator Mike Connors'"retirement" (emphasis ours) today. Although Mayor Rick Kriseman's office would not...
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