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Move over Mayor Jane Castor, there's a new boss in town. Jason Fernandez has been named Ybor City Alcalde.\r\nOne of his first major acts will be an act of defiance as he leads the Ybor Navy in a battle to clear the port for the Gasparilla invasion in January.\r\nFernandez has been at the helm of Bernini restaurant in Ybor City for over 30 years and is a big promoter of Ybor's<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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Governor Ronald DeSantis has appointed many jerks to important roles in government. One of the biggest jerks is Florida Commissioner of Education Anastasios Kamoutsas. While this man runs education in Florida, he has never taught children or run a school, university or a school district. His background is as a prosecutor, PBA lawyer and a political hack for Governor DeSantis.\r\nHe was booed by the people he is supposed to lead last week at the Florida School Boards Association Conference in Tampa. He told his audience that they should get used to charter school operators taking over pieces of public school buildings and getting a free ride on the costs. He then threatened that traditional schools could face closures in the future for failing to perform.<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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Here's the plan \u2013 Mayor Jane Castor is going to sell the Tampa Police headquarters and parking garage Downtown for at least $36 million. The new owner will lease the building back to the City of Tampa to house the police for one year. Then, we have no idea what will happen. Maybe we will have a new headquarters built somewhere by then. ... Council should let the mayor know that it will not approve the sale of the police headquarters until there is a plan in place. What size building do we need? What is the price to build one? Is there some existing building we could buy? What is the cost to modernize the existing building? Which is the best and most cost-effective path and how will it be paid for?<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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School districts around the country have been buying AI weapon detection systems for big bucks that do little to make students safer.\r\nAt Lawton Chiles Middle School, in Oviedo FL, their AI system alerted that a gun was present and the school was locked down. Tuesday, the system thought a clarinet was a rifle because a student was holding it like a rifle. This makes us wonder if the child was holding a rifle like it was a clarinet would the alarm go off?\r\nIt also gave credence to the NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre\u2019s quote \u201cThe only thing that stops a bad guy with a clarinet is a good guy with a gun.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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Governor Ronald DeSantis has designated that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a foreign terrorist organization and has directed Florida agencies to undertake all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities and deny privileges and resources to anyone providing material support.\r\nThe governor has offered no new evidence that the group is a terrorist organization. The Federal Government has offered no report and has not claimed CAIR is a terrorist organization.\r\nEver since CAIR began in 1994 to promote and protect American-Muslim civil rights, it has faced such accusations. We can't think of another organization that has faced so much governmental scrutiny and constant investigation and surveillance.\r\nIf DeSantis has evidence, he shouldn't issue proclamations, he should show up with arrest warrants.\r\nWe believe he is trying to set the stage to keep school vouchers out of Muslim private schools.<\/a><\/p><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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I went through with no problem, but as soon as I was on the other side of the metal detector, I was asked to step to the side while a TSA agent bent down and started wiping my shoes with some sort of cloth that can detect explosives or contraband or something to that effect. They didn\u2019t say what they were doing, only that it was random, which I found odd, as I\u2019ve never been through that since I acquired the Global Entry pass.\r\nI was cleared and I saw Tony heading over to the bar area to have one last libation before we got on the plane. I was going to join him, but with my wife and her sister in TSA custody, I figured I better stick by them to see what\u2019s doin\u2019.\r\nIt turned out that Lisa bought a candle at some craft store while we were there and the density of it combined with it being organic material triggered their alarms. After about 10 minutes of conversations with supervisors and finally getting permission to go to the gate, Lisa was given the option of leaving her candle with TSA <\/a><\/p> <\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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At the holiday dinner of USF\u2019s Women and Philanthropy, I learned another lesson in the need for teaching modern history, the real history that is important to real people. WLP raises money for scholarships, especially for young women who are the first in their family to go to college. The introductory speaker had been a recipient twenty years ago, when she was a single mother who lacked childcare and had to bring her baby to the interview. Now she has a good job in finance, and she was there to give back.<\/p>\r\n

The impact of babies on careers was an inevitable topic at my table, and a scholarship recipient whose parents came from Haiti said that there were fourteen children in her family. The faculty member who sat with us came from a similarly sized family, and my mother was the oldest of twelve. We lamented their limited lives, and I said that I think historians in the future will recognize Margaret Sanger as the most important person of the last century. I was saddened when even the professor in the College of Public Health acknowledged that she did not recognize the name.<\/a><\/p><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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From the time man first started early forms of transportation, rubbernecking to see an accident has been around. In 1914, a crowd forms at the scene of a streetcar accident located at 3500 Tampa Street. To keep some perspective, some historical events of this year include; the first scheduled airline flight, St. Petersburg to Tampa by pilot Tony Jannus, the first steamboat passes through the Panama Canal, Mother\u2019s Day in America is established, the first successful blood transfusion takes place and World War I begins in Europe.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n

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Cog Test<\/h6>\r\n

More hand-bruise speculation. More embarrassing, high-profile nodding off. Another \u201caced\u201d cognition test. We\u2019ve seen this presidential pattern; we\u2019ll see it again. And again.\r\nBut we haven\u2019t, until now, actually seen the Trump cognition test. Some likely samples: Solve Hocus-Focus, count backwards from 3, name the day of the week, current century, two SCOTUS justices, three NATO members and the main ingredients of a cheeseburger.\r\nAtorvastatin, Azerbaijan, Acetaminaphen: Which one is a country? What is Stormy Daniels real name? Name two books other than \u201cArt of the Deal\u201d and \u201cMein Kampf,\u201d that you have read. What is Melania\u2019s phone number?<\/p>\r\n

Party of Lincoln<\/h6>\r\n

How can Republicans still maintain that their party is \u201cthe party of Lincoln\u201d? Shouldn\u2019t these Lincoln Day Dinners be realistically renamed? How about the Bull Connor or George Wallace Day Dinners? Stop using Lincoln as a disingenuous, hypocritical model.<\/p>\r\n

Dem Notes<\/h6> \r\n

* 2028 Perspective: \u201cI think the Democratic primary is going to be the longest primary of our life. It\u2019s hard to recall a field that is this wide open.\u201d\u2014Republican consultant Alex Conant.<\/p>\r\n

* \u201c(House Minority Leader) Hakeem Jeffries was chosen at a time when he was expected to be a peacetime leader, a coalition builder. He is not well suited to being a leader of the opposition\u2014a wartime consigliere.\u201d\u2014Amanda Litman, the head of Run for Something, a group dedicated to getting young progressives elected.<\/p>\r\n

* \u201cWhen the court said pay the benefits, they didn\u2019t say pay half a hamburger.\u201d\u2014Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on the Trump Administration\u2019s plan to make partial food stamp payments.<\/p>\r\n

Musings<\/h6>\r\n

Tempting remarks when caught in an awkward, politically partisan conversation:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

* \u201cDid the middle of my sentence interrupt the beginning of yours?\u201d<\/p>\r\n

* \u201cThis is why the gene pool needs a lifeguard.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

* When looking at photos of Marco Rubio with Trump and other world leaders at some media gathering, ever tempted to add a thought bubble? Perhaps: \u201cI\u2019m the secretary of state of the most impactful country in the world, and yet I know I\u2019ve made a Faustian deal with an uninformed, embarrassing con man. I feel like a prop. This is humiliating. Get those cameras out of here.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

* Why does everyone force introverts to leave their comfort zone, but no one forces extroverts to shut up for a while?<\/p>\r\n

* If you overuse Artificial Intelligence, does that make you Genuinely Stupid?<\/p>\r\n

* Pop culture is generational. We\u2019ve all experienced it. That said, name someone who looks better with a nose ring.<\/p>\r\n

* Two deaths that will go unreconciled: Lee Harvey Oswald, Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n

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Ybor City llega a sus 140 a\u00f1os con orgullo de su pasado, animado con el presente y esperanzado con el proyecto que aspira a recuperar su esplendor. Ese h\u00e1lito se explica en una hermosa historia que arranca de su origen en 1885, cuando una superficie inh\u00f3spita se convirtiera en capital del tabaco torcido a mano. Desde entonces, evoluciona entre dif\u00edciles vaivenes que elevan, estancan o incluso hacen retroceder su desarrollo hasta una actualidad donde se aprecia el repunte de su aquel florecimiento.<\/p>\r\n

Para rendir homenaje a este nuevo aniversario, las cinco instituciones m\u00e1s representativas de su historia han tenido la feliz decisi\u00f3n de juntarse en una gala conmemorativa a la que han nombrado Piquiniqu\u00ed, palabra inusual que, si bien remite a la voz gala picnic, estuvo arraigada en la cultura asturiana que, con muchos miembros, estuvo \u2013est\u00e1\u2013 presente en este lugar.<\/a><\/p><\/p>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n

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Al franc\u00e9s Marius Petipa, que lleg\u00f3 a ser director de coreograf\u00eda del Ballet Imperial Ruso en el siglo XIX, le debemos el perfeccionamiento del modelo de ballet con argumento largo y completo que ha sobrevivido hasta nuestros d\u00edas. La bella durmiente, El lago de los cisnes y El cascanueces, coreograf\u00edas suyas, son magn\u00edficos arquetipos de estos tipos de producciones.\r\nEl cascanueces fue creado en 1892 bajo el minucioso cuidado de Petipa. Sin embargo, al enfermarse, su asistente ruso Lev Ivanov complet\u00f3 la puesta en escena. El libreto fue escrito por Ivan \u00acVsevolozhsky y el propio Petipa, bas\u00e1ndose en la adaptaci\u00f3n de Alexandre Dumas (padre) del cuento \u201cEl cascanueces y el rey de los ratones\u201d de Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann.\r\nEsta ic\u00f3nica pieza de la danza recrea la historia de Clara, una ni\u00f1a que recibe como regalo de Nochebuena un cascanueces, juguete maravilloso que la transportar\u00e1 por quim\u00e9ricos lugares <\/a><\/p><\/p>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n

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Jovan McNeill<\/h4>\r\n

Tampa native Jovan McNeill grew up on North Boulevard and Columbus Drive, attending B.C. Graham Elementary School, Stewart Middle Magnet School and Hillsborough High School.<\/p>\r\n

He was raised by a single mother who had him when she was 16 years old. \u201cComing up as a kid, we didn\u2019t have as much for ourselves,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cWe moved six times by the time I was 18 years old. We didn\u2019t have a house. I grew up in apartments and studios.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Still, his mother tried to give back to others whenever possible and did as much as she could for her son.<\/p>\r\n

She introduced McNeill to the love of the outdoors, often taking her son fishing. \u201cAs a single parent in the inner city, she didn\u2019t know hunting as much. She didn\u2019t know canoeing or kayaking. So, we fished,\u201d he said.<\/a><\/p><\/p>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

Catch up with what\u2019s happening in La Gaceta!<\/h4>\r\n

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