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Tampa Police Department wants taxpayers to pay $2 million for new guns and a robot dog
St. Petersburg police purchased its robot dog with a private donation.
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Some candidates for Hillsborough School Board agree superintendent should not be an elected position
District 2 candidate Brittany Lyssy was not in attendance at Tampa Tiger Bay last Friday.
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Gun lobby praises Florida AG over push for ‘nondangerous’ felon gun ownership
“Attorney General Pam Bondi needs to sit up and take notes! This is what a REAL pro-gun attorney general looks like.”
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Viral shoegaze producer FlyingFish drops into Tampa this weekend
Orlando emo trio Flowers For Emily opens.
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Tampa Bay Journalism Project is a nonprofit-driven effort to unlock and amplify more local, non-paywalled news and information
Central to the effort is a coalition of non-paywalled websites sharing each other’s work with their unique audiences.
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Scientists could track species invasive to Tampa Bay using eDNA deployed in The Everglades
The Asian swamp eel was confirmed last summer at Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk County.
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As gas prices spike, Florida Gov. DeSantis says there’s no ‘simple fix’
Democrats in the state Legislature have asked the governor to temporarily lift the state’s 23.5-cent per gallon tax on gas.
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Antonio Brown’s $4 million bankruptcy home is now for sale in Tampa
AB agreed to give up the property to settle a bankruptcy court filing in 2025.
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Florida launches investigation into Discord over child safety concerns
“With so many criminal investigations leading to Discord, they owe us an explanation as to why predators keep getting to kids on the app.”
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Grady Judd is woke now
Polk County’s favorite lawman is feeling the heat after asking for ‘common sense’ immigration policies.
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More and more, officials are simply ignoring Florida’s public records laws
Requests for public documents can go unanswered for weeks, months, even years.
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Special election voting is underway for the Hillsborough County Senate Seat vacated by Jay Collins
As of noon Tuesday, 41,613 people had voted in the SD14 race between Republican Josie Tomkow and Democrat Brian Nathan.
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Tampa Monitor is asking for help to finish building important reporting tools
It’s Sunshine Week, and the website helps all of us keep eyes and ears on Tampa City Council.
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Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says some immigrants here ‘illegally’ should have a path to legal residence
The Republican Polk County sheriff said, ‘if one party or the other found the cure to the worst cancers, then the other would vote against it.’
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Lawsuit threatened if DeSantis signs Florida version of ‘SAVE America Act’
“As soon as you sign this bill, Florida will be sued.”
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Oracle of Ybor: Your friend is a fucking asshole
I cannot imagine what it felt like to receive such an atom bomb of a letter.
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Florida average gas prices have risen 82 cents since start of Iran war
The state average was $2.89 on Feb. 28 when the war began.