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Janice Marcel has accepted my proposal for marriage.
Sorry, ladies.

I got several requests for the recipe for the Duchess’ Peachy-Praline pie. I added it to the picture I posted of said pie! By-the-way, both were gone in an instant once dessert was served at the family get-together!You’ll find the picture & recipe RIGHT HERE!Duke

If you have not been near Davis Island in the past year you are missing the rapid growth of the Tampa Bay area’s only Level 1 Trauma Center, TGH.This is the front of the new more-than 260,000 sq. ft. hospital expansion. (bringing to more than 2 million…

To anyone within earshot of this blog:
I’m looking for project work. Websites, programming, databases - if it’s on the web, I can either do it, or I’ll figure out how to do it. I’m cheap, somewhat fast, and retardedly meticulous. For anyone who is curious about my work, here’s a recent portfolio:
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With a hat tip to Tampa Rail, according to today’s Tampa Tribune, there seems to be a more formal effort to include light rail in the long range plans for our community. It doesn’t yet mean the system will be built, but at least it is finally being factored into the process.
Planners in Tampa and Hillsborough County are starting what could be a years-long push to create a multimillion dollar

Tim Fasano, cab driver and blogger of Tampa Taxi Shots fame, often talks about taxi-business issues on his blog. Because of this, he has become an unofficial leader of the cab community. If you have time, add his blog to your reading list.

He pointed out today that he was quoted in the St. Petersburg Times article about a controversy brewing in Hillsborough County. Taxis in Hillsborough are

The Florida Legislature meets tomorrow to elect its new leaders: Senate President Ken Pruitt and House Speaker Marco Rubio. Both are good men and will be excellent leaders.

This post, however, is about an idea broached by Speaker Rubio: moving Florida’s primary from March to early February. Today’s Orlando Sentinel has a good article on this proposal.
Incoming state House Speaker Marco Rubio,

Tis almost the season…..& I’ll begin a set of indoor pics which I’ll post over the next few weeks as we head toward Christmas.One of my enjoyments in life over the past few years (there have actually been quite a number) is purchasing and setup of a …

Sorry if we’re a little late on this, as Sticks of Fire and Seminole Heights have both posted about today’s news. Fifty-two people have applied for the City Council vacancies created when Kevin White and Rose Ferlita ran for county commission. However there are some candidates for both seats we at State of Sunshine find interesting.

For Rose Ferlita’s city-wide district:
Joseph Citro, in

The blogosphere is a-titter with posts about automated phone calls. It appears that someone - allegedly the NRCC - was harassing voters with automated calls that re-dialed if the listener didn’t hang on the phone long enough. There are other allegations that someone - again allegedly the Republicans - were using fake “robo calls” in such a way as to make the receivers think the Democrats were