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    <title>Pay attention here: Political Editor Wayne Garcia says goodbye</title>
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        By Wayne Garcia
      
      
      When I drove back into town last Friday, I was greeted at home with a copy of the St. Petersburg Times and a metro section story about influential trucker-builder Bing Kearney, who had seen one of his companies forced into bankruptcy court. His corporate misfortune in this recession is probably the perfect place to start my last column as Creative Loafing&#39;s political editor. More details about that later. But Kearney&#39;s companies, which depend on growth, growth, growth to stay alive,
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    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Gay Politics 3.0</title>
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        LGBT politicians sharpen their message and appeal to broader issues.<b>By Wayne Garcia</b>...
       
      
        By Wayne Garcia
      
      
      The room is full of straights and gays as St. Pete City Council hopeful Steve Kornell works the crowd at a fundraiser thrown for him at a gay restaurant in Ybor City, hosted by Tampa Bay&#39;s top gay politician, Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin Beckner. It might seem very LGBT, but the common factor for those milling around the event is the growing progressive movement on both sides of the Bay. It just happens that Kornell is a gay man. For
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    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Remembering Hillsborough County Elections Supervisor Phyllis Busansky</title>
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        And wondering who runs the Elections Office next....
       
      
        By Wayne Garcia
      
      
      Faaaabulous!: Phyllis Busansky in 2006, during her unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Congress, on the campaign trail with Sen. John Kerry. It&#39;s funny the things you remember -- and don&#39;t remember -- about your friends when they die. I spent much of an afternoon last week searching my brain for a tiny detail about Phyllis Busansky among the thousands of bits of info I know about her over the past two decades. A drink. I can&#39;t remember the last line
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    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Towns compete in Tampa this week for the All-America City title</title>
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        But who's equipped with good ideas?<b>By Wayne Garcia</b>...
       
      
        By Wayne Garcia
      
      
      The best civic ideas in the United States converge on Tampa Bay this week, but few people realize how rich a trove of public-private partnership programs will be highlighted over at the Marriott Waterside. The National Civic League&#39;s 60th annual All-America City Award conference is the destination for the 30 communities (including Tampa itself) that are finalists for the honor. Tampa last won the award in 1990, when Sandy Freedman was mayor. She is now chairwoman of the National Civic
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    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Steely Dan are playing Ruth Eckerd Hall for the rent money</title>
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        By Wayne Garcia
      
      
      In 1974, the leading members of Steely Dan quit touring, tired of the rigor of the road and opening for heavy metal bands. That led to the departure of most of the band &shy;-- including guitarist Jeff &quot;Skunk&quot; Baxter, who enjoyed playing live and joined the Doobie Brothers, like backup singer Michael McDonald who eventually joined him there -- leaving songwriters Walter Becker and Donald Fagen to turn the Dan into a studio-only machine that dominated album-oriented rock radio for
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    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Getting a Tampa city planning do-over</title>
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        By Wayne Garcia
      
      
      As I read Grant Rimbey&#39;s piece on discovering legendary planner John Nolen&#39;s 1924 survey of Tampa, I flashed to what Nolen told city leaders back in the day: &quot;Co-operation will be needed between the city and county governments, the school districts, the realtors, the owners of the land, business interests, and citizens. Enlightening publicity will be required to present all details of the city plan to the public and obtain the citizens&#39; approval for each change made in the future.&quot;
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    <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Bill McCollum: A law-and-order governor?</title>
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        By Wayne Garcia
      
      
      You can say what you want about Charlie Crist&#39;s short (and ultimately unremarkable) tenure as Florida governor, but you have to agree that he largely did no harm -- for a Republican. After all, Crist was never interested in being Florida best governor, just Florida&#39;s best-liked governor. His strong populist streak kept him away from many of the bad ideas his party is behind (although he did jump on the awful tax reform bandwagon that has crippled local governments and
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    <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Dick Greco for Tampa mayor ... again?</title>
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        By Wayne Garcia
      
      
      Toward the end of a local history forum that featured Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio and St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker, moderator Gary Mormino, a University of South Florida historian, asked if either politician (both interested in moving up to statewide office) if they had any announcements to make. Both demurred. Baker joked that the only thing he could say was that he was the only person in the Centro Asturiano location where the talk was held to be guaranteed not
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    <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Review: Neil Young, Fork in the Road</title>
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        By Wayne Garcia
      
      
      Neil Young Fork in the Road (Reprise)Neil Young seems to toss off discs these days like a bad blogger: quick and topical, without much depth or time to think deeper thoughts. That&rsquo;s a shame, because Young still sounds great, still has a fire in the belly to make hard-grungey music and now has the wisdom of the Old Man that he once wrote so famously about. Fork in the Road is the latest near-throwaway from Young, a cross between his
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    <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The emergence of St. Petersburg mayor candidate Deveron Gibbons</title>
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        By Wayne Garcia
      
      
      Deveron Gibbons is a smooth talker. I write this at the risk of appearing to stereotype. Gibbons is an African-American, and there is a horrible political caricature of the slick black candidate that comes to mind for some. But Gibbons is engaging as hell, as he proved during the first major candidate forum for the 2009 St. Petersburg election season last week. He also busts stereotypes: He is a Republican from the &#39;hood who talks about lower taxes and more
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    <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Is civic pride alive in Tampa Bay?</title>
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        By Wayne Garcia
      
      
      There was a time when the pursuit of civic excellence in Tampa Bay seemed to be a much higher priority than it is today. When we were innocent enough to care (and see big headlines) that Tampa was awarded an &quot;All America City&quot; designation. When the meaning of civic involvement was broader than just whining on a blog about local government. That time was 1990, to be precise. Now, less than two decades later, civic involvement and (more importantly) the
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    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Is Tampa mayor Pam Iorio stepping down?</title>
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        By Wayne Garcia
      
      
      Shrinking the Everglades deal: It started out as a mammoth, billion-dollar plan to buy out Everglades polluter U.S. Sugar and restore its farmlands to help heal the river of grass (shown here in the current drought near Boca Raton), which was nearly destroyed because of fertlizer-rich runoff. But the recession and flagging tax revenues are taking their toll, and now Gov. Charlie Crist has announced the deal is being downsized for the second time, to just 72,500 acres for $533
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Is light rail finally coming to Tampa?</title>
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        By Wayne Garcia
      
      
      If you had told me even one year ago that the Hillsborough County Commission would vote unanimously to start the process of putting a 1-cent sales tax on the 2010 ballot to build a light-rail transit system, I would have laughed in your face. But I&#39;m not laughing today. Because that is exactly what the commissioners did last week, by a 7-0 vote, including the support of rail opponent and referendum naysayer Commissioner Jim Norman. It appears we&#39;re finally getting
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Urban Explorer 4.0: The top local news sites</title>
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        By Wayne Garcia
      
      
      Sticks of FireWho runs it: Citizen journalist and JGLB rock band lead singer Tommy Duncan started Sticks of Fire in early 2004 when he realized there were few (if any) blogs about Tampa, just a bunch in Tampa. Duncan remarked at the time that even he, just &quot;some knucklehead with a computer&quot; who has &quot;zero journalistic education,&quot; could report on the news in Tampa Bay. He made a big name for himself and the blog when he picked up a
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    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Urban Explorer 4.0: The digital branding of 10 Connects</title>
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        By Wayne Garcia
      
      
      Janie Porter describes herself as &quot;one of the least technologically savvy people you&#39;ll ever meet,&quot; and yet there she was in January, in a hotel in South Florida, with a video camera, two laptops and a microphone at the ready for a live broadcast for the Tampa Bay CBS affiliate, 10 Connects. She had no satellite truck, no camera crew. Her only connection to the station was via Skype, the online video-audio streaming service, and an air card for her
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