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The city of Dunedin's Local Planning Agency is currently clarifying its outdoor dining and noise ordinances. It could limit all outdoor measurable sounds, amplified or not, above 65 decibels. Story to come in Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

"Raucous behavior is in the eye of the beholder."-Deborah Kynes, Dunedin LPA

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the shitty thing about media collapsing is that i really, really, really, really love my job

“You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.” This week, to celebrate James Baldwin’s life and legacy on the occasion of his one hundredth birthday, we’ve unlocked his Art of Fiction interview from our archive. buff.ly/3dC4FD5

Fun fact: I've been reporting on the Rays stadium deal on and off for Creative Loafing Tampa Bay since 2010. cltampa.com/news/mayor-bil…

Ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to request public records

Very Cool Moment: Giving my barber Dede a copy of BLUFF and watching him read his poem 💈🥹

I’ve joined the Florida Humanities speaker bureau with a talk on history of the Dozier School for Boys. As part of Florida Humanities' Florida Talks program, your nonprofit org can book any of the 40 scholars, journos and authors. floridahumanities.org/speaker-direct…

Make art that seeks to tear down empire, confronts it with honesty and teeth. Don’t glamorize empire, don’t assist it, don’t make it your muse or you will be its mule.

Added comment from DeSantis' office to this post. Today on WMNF 88.5 FM from 11:30 a.m.-noon, Florida Springs Council's Ryan Smart will join myself, Mitch Perry Ben Montgomery to talk about proposed development at nine state parks, including two in Tampa Bay cltampa.com/news/heres-whe…

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In Florida, jails are over capacity as hundreds of people sleep on floor beds. Some are held for months on non-violent misdemeanor charges. Public officials point to a recent bail reform law and wonder if it needs to be changed Tampa Bay Times tampabay.com/news/pinellas/…

Florida faculty union pushes back at state directive to review courses for 'antisemitic material' and 'anti-Israeli' bias ift.tt/nk0iAEr

“The proposed ordinance’s most significant change to downtown life included language requiring patrons to “vacate” downtown’s outdoor spaces after 11 p.m. Essentially, it could’ve functioned as a kind of an outdoor curfew.” My latest for Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

New: Florida residents felt shaken after DeSantis' election crime police knocked on their doors to question the validity of their signatures on petitions that helped get the abortion amendment on the ballot. w/Romy Ellenbogen Lawrence Mower tampabay.com/news/florida-p…

NEW: Emails show a forestry official disagreed with the quiet, DeSantis-backed land swap to give 300+ acres of state forest to a luxury golf course company One forestry official in an email to his colleagues said the swap "sucks" Read more: tampabay.com/news/environme…

Grant me the courage to open these edits I asked for.

Abandoning my husband and child to submit to HAD this morning. Very mindful very demure