The Onion obviously does not live in Florida where increasing development as a response to over-development is just good legislative sense and not ridiculous [...]
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managing the Facebook [...] Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and [...] I do not envy John Schueler. Media General Inc. recently restructured its media orgs, combining newspaper, television, and the Internet. They appointed Schueler to head up this new structure. Frankly, I think this sounds like rearranging deck chairs on a sinking ship, but perhaps they have a plan I just don’t understand. Regardless, I do [...] Arianna Huffington launches investigative journalism [...] What happens when the bank gives up on foreclosure proceedings and doesn’t bother trying to sell the [...] Governor Crist gives a shout-out to those of us working in the ivory [...] Allan from a local Neighborhood Watch group sent along this message. I have slightly re-written it from a personal email to a blog post. I hope other local bloggers will help spread the message. Thx! —- This April 18 the Tampa Police will be hosting their annual health & safety education party at Sulphur Springs pool. Past [...] Link to Steven Berlin Johnson’s speech “Old Growth Media and the Future of [...] I have a better sense now of what my summer schedule is like, and I have nearly a year’s experience with this blog. What does this mean? I’m combining all of the pages into one blog. Tonight I imported all of the Reading Tampa posts. Over the next mumblety days/weeks I’ll be combining the other [...] Tampa Designer Bus [...] Seminole Heights community [...] Debbie Wasserman Schultz kicked some serious cancer ass last year, but wants to continue the battle this year. “…she’ll introduce a bill today that calls for $9 million a year from 2010 to 2014 for a national education and awareness campaign aimed at young women, especially those most vulnerable to breast cancer.” The good news – Fox Business News files a Freedom of Information Act to get the treasury department to release 10,000 pages of email between the Treasury department and AIG. Good job! The bad news – despite the fact that all of the emails took place before Obama took office (and many before he was even [...] Year three of the Florida [...] David Rees, author of the awesome Get Your War On knows a thing or two about email death threats and pins the AIG execs for the whiny babies they are. “And mind you, when I received these threats, I wasn’t working in some high-security office building and living in a fancy gated community with no sidewalks [...] The Washington Post points to this article by “Bruce Katz, Mark Muro and Jennifer Bradley in the latest issue of the journal ‘Democracy‘” which argues that federal policies ought to focus on our metropolitan areas. “The United States is not a single unified economy, they say, nor even a breakdown of 50 state economies. Instead, the [...] Today Google announced that they are rolling out a smarter search [...] Thanks Creative [...] Clear Channel Outdoor digital network coordinator Ryan Frazier keeps a blog about the awesomeness of digital billboards. I don’t actually have a problem with digital billboards. My preference would be that about 80% of the billboards in the Tampa metropolitan area be removed. I’m indifferent to the digitalness, and would probably even concede that they’re an [...] Forbes (I found it at the Chicago Tribune) lists its best and worst cities for jobs. Among the worst - Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, Fla. “In addition to leisure, hospitality and construction, professional and financial services in this stretch of southeastern Florida have also suffered.” Naples–Marco Island, Fla. “This area on the west [...] Since Obama made his outreach video to Iran perhaps it’s time to remember that Iran isn’t only ayatollahs and nuclear bombs. Here’s a great Iranian pop band for example. Eddeaa by Abjeez Representative Castor has released a 50-page document (here’s the .pdf) detailing where the stimulus money will be going in Florida. Here’s her page about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act . “The Roadmap provides information on job creation opportunities funded by the Recovery Plan. The Roadmap also provides helpful summaries and websites. Our Roadmap is [...] Yesterday’s (Monday, March 23, 2009) State of the City presentation by Mayor Iorio can be found here. “March 23, 2009 – Mayor Pam Iorio delivered the annual State of the City presentation to city employees, residents, and business, neighborhood and community leaders. The presentation, which included a video, highlights the progress that has taken place in [...] The new issue of New Heights Magazine is out. In this issue Jay McGee announces that this will be the last issue of NHM. It is transforming itself into Urban Corridor Magazine (aka UC Tampa). While I’m a big fan of what Jay’s done with his magazine, I must admit I’m not such a fan of [...] Here’s the description from CL – “Join us as we gather the best in digital music, art, animation, film and fashion into one club and let the Overload begin! In addition to live digital and interactive installations and entertainment curated by CL’s Megan Voeller and AES, we will also present two $1,000 scholarships to student [...] Where were the tea party folk during the outrageous expansion of government over the last eight years? Did those who object to the MIAC profiling object to earlier profiling efforts by police? How did Democratic politicians gain such superhuman powers? For the first four years of the Bush administration everything that went wrong was Clinton’s fault. Now, [...] This is old news, but it’s worth remembering. And since I just came across it while searching for something else I thought I’d post this nice Wikipedia summation in the entry for Jane Akre. Wikipedia excerpt – Jane Akre and her husband Steve Wilson are former employees of Fox owned-and-operated station WTVT in Tampa, Florida. In [...] In anticipation of the forthcoming World Cup to be held in South Africa South African soccer officials are holding a “peace conference,” and have barred the Dalai Lama from attending. ? For the last fifty years the poor Chinese have been trembling in terror as the tyrant warlord has razed homes, slaughtered innocents, and destroyed crops. Oh, wait. [...] This is happening in Colorado, not Florida, but watching them light the water coming from the faucet on fire is quite an eyeball kick. Check it out. “A Fort Lupton couple says they have so much natural gas in their water they can light it on fire.” |
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