Best of Daily Loaf: The Week In Review
The Creative Loafing team prides itself on producing more Daily Loaf content each week than any individual could ever possibly comprehend. As such, you’re bound to have missed at least one worthwhile story from the pages of this blog over the last few days. Here’s a “greatest hits” list from the week that was, broken down by section:
NEWS
MUSIC
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Jay-Z announced the
At least eight people have been shot in a downtown office highrise in Orlando, FL, according to TV news reports. Here’s an excerpt from 
The
In two months, the Rick Baker era ends. St. Petersburg’s mayor moves on, possibly toward the only job he’s said he really wants: replacing Carl Kuttler as the head of St. Petersburg College.
Later today, President Obama is expected to visit the House to rally support for the biggest issue of his young presidency domestically, health care reform.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki is scheduled to give the keynote address today at 12:30 p.m. during a daylong student veterans’ conference on the USF-Tampa campus.
According to reports from the AP and TV news, seven people have been killed and 20 wounded in shootings at the Fort Hood military base in Fort Hood, TX.
With time hopefully comes perspective, so we will again revisit what nationally some political analysts are deciphering from Tuesday’s elections across the nation.
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Former Hillsborough County Commissioner Brian Blair, a candidate for State House in District 47 next year, has come up with his own idea to help the homeless, after watching his former colleagues on the Board of County Commissioners fail to come up with their own plan.
There were three main races that the nation’s political pundit class were focusing on yesterday as possible referendums on the state of the Obama Administration and the state of the nation.
Bill Foster awakens this morning to his lifelong dream: He is now the mayor of St. Petersburg.
For real-time results in the vote on gay marriage in Maine, head to
Stacy Frank, an attorney and small business owner who has been involved in a public controversy this year over her company’s involvement in developing cell towers in some Hillsborough County public schools, today announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for District 57 in the Florida House of Representatives. The seat is open due to the exile of Fay Culp, who is term-limited from office.
You probably already know that growth does not pay for itself and taxpayers are left holding the bill for things like roads, fire safety and parks despite what politicians would like you to believe. Impact fees should be funding these things, yet they don’t even come close. In fact, according to a recent audit done by the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office, they don’t even fund the program it takes to monitor them!
In addition to tonight’s election for mayor and City Council in St. Pete, there are governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia this off-year election, which political analysts invariably call a referendum in part on the leadership in Washington.
St. Petersburg registered voters have until 7 p.m. tonight to cast their ballot for mayor and five City Council races.
Today’s editorial, entitled “Vote for steady progress,” is again a variation on the theme that the page has carried since the general election in early September — that a vote for Kathleen Ford would be a disaster for the city.
The Associated Press is reporting
In Afghanistan this morning, officials have canceled the run-off election scheduled for this Saturday, declaring Hamid Karzai the winner after his opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, said he would not participate in the re-vote.
A year before Floridians go to the polls to vote for a new governor and U.S. Senator, the St. Pete Times/Miami Herald released a series of polls this weekend that could have serious implications on how state policy evolves over the next year.
Connecticut Independent Senator Joe Lieberman proudly displayed his free agent status on Sunday when he declared on CBS’ Face The Nation program Sunday that he feels so strongly against “another government entitlement” that he will use his power as a single member of that august body to vote against any health care bill that includes a government-run public option.
Late this afternoon, just hours before controversial reggae singer Buju Banton’s concert at the Cuban Club in Ybor City was to take place, an emergency meeting was held inside radio station WMNF.
Former St. Pete mayoral candidate Scott Wagman insists his $250 contribution to Bill Foster’s campaign isn’t an full fledged endorsement, but does say that he thinks Foster is the right choice in next Tuesday’s election.
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