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Stimulating idiocy

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

The St. Petersburg Times took local area governments to task on their requests for economic stimulus project funds. Most of them were low key, beautification projects that would neither create jobs nor serve a purpose.
I want to know if the TECO Line Streetcar is on this list of projects. I don’t mean the [...]

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Eighty-One. Bah, Humbug.

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

81 degrees in Pinellas County, Florida on Christmas Eve. There are millions of Americans that have endured the cold of the late fall and the first few days of Winter with sub-freezing temperatures, snow, ice, and all the weather that marks the season (and the problems they cause).
I get eighty-one degrees… And I’m [...]

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So this is what it’s like running the local blogroll…

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

TampaBLAB has a new gunslinger and I am it… For the most part at least. What IS TampaBLAB? WHY am I involved? Read more to find out!

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A Day in the Life at the Tampa Tribune

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Copy Editor: “RUMORS OF OUR DEMISE HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED“; bold faced and centered across the front page. Print it.

Janet Coats: What are you doing?
CE: Refuting the rumors that are going around that the newspaper will be ceasing publication in the coming weeks. It’s really heinous stuff and we have to re-assure [...]

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Astro-not

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Yeah, it’s not a science but… am I the only person who ends up reading their horoscope some days (or more days than not) and feeling like they are talking about someone else entirely and the horoscope forecast doesn’t apply to you at all?

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Coming not quite soon

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Riviera Plaza Publix opened at the corner of Alderman Road and US 19 before the Holiday season came out in full force. Sunset Point and Belcher Road Publix in Clearwater opened on the same day. The latter of the two stores was a former Jewel Osco location, that later became an Albertsons.
I happened [...]

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