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A meeting is scheduled that is a once in a lifetime opportunity to make your voice heard and remain anonymous. Lee DeCesare has scheduled such a meeting and I beseech you do not squander the chance to have a real impact on your career.
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By Brendan McLaughlin

Many of the most progressive, artsy, compact and walkable cities in America aren’t cities at all. In fact the suburbs are just as likely as a downtown urban core  to contain a groovy live-work-play environment with a Starbucks inside a Whole Foods inside an Ikea store. This is just one of the eye opening findings of Christopher Leinberger of the Brookings Institute who recently authored a survey of the nation’s most walkable communities.  He praised  Washington DC, Denver, Chicago and Portland Oregon for having the highest number of these hipster enclaves. Tampa? He couldn’t find a single one. Ybor, he says generously, has promise.

Leinberger stopped by the Flashpoint studios when he was in town this week to speak at a Tampa Downtown Partnership event. I warned him to prepare for some Ruskin tomatoes flying out of the audience.  The boosters promoting downtown living are a little sensitive to criticism. But to their credit they seem serious about transforming our moribund business district into something Petula Clark could dig.

Also this Sunday on Flashpoint, Ybor native and comic gadfly, Jack Espinosa spins yarns from his new memoir, Cuban Bread Crumbs. 

That’s on Flashpoint this Sunday morning on ABC Action News.  Leave a comment here to let me know what you thought of the show.

Listening To: Kathleen Carnali’s new song, “Just Another Day.”

The Denver Broncos have released WR Javon Walker as of today.

There’s no telling what type of contract Javon Walker is looking for, but you have to think the Bucs will listen as just days ago they were rumored to be looking to deal for the guy. I’m not sure he’s a good option with the recent injuries he’s had, but at this point I wouldnt mind hearing a Walker-to-Bucs-Signing right about now.. ugh

The boys at ProFootballTalk.com are reporting that the AJC has announced TE Alge Crumpler is close to signing a contract with the Seattle Seahawks.

Son of a … What a ridiculous Friday. This report comes on the heels of another report that the Seahawks won’t sign Alge due to salary cap restraints!! Dang it

The boys at ProFootballTalk.com are reporting that the AJC has announced TE Alge Crumpler is close to signing a contract with the Seattle Seahawks.

Son of a … What a ridiculous Friday. This report comes on the heels of another report that the Seahawks won’t sign Alge due to salary cap restraints!! Dang it

(Photo by Franki Weddington, CL Staff Intern)
Hani Shihada’s art might not be on display in the Tampa Museum of Art (which would be difficult, given that it is in the process of being torn down and rebuilt), but his work in the One City Center brick plaza a few blocks from the museum is […]