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St. Pete’s SPIFFS festival raises a glass to immigrants, year-after-year

Scene from the 2025 SPIFFS Fair. In 1975, thousands of immigrants had recently moved to Pinellas County as the Vietnam war ...
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Tampa Monitor: City Council to hold special call Fiscal Year 27 workshop on Tuesday

Tampa, Florida Long time readers of Tampa Monitor will know that one of the single biggest issues raised here has been the ...
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Urban designer and USF assistant dean Taryn Sabia enters Tampa mayoral race

Taryn Sabia The field for Tampa’s 2027 mayoral election has nine names in it now after Taryn Sabia filed paperwork on Monday ...
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Planned 420-mile Florida Gulf Coast Trail will connect Tampa Bay to Naples

The Courtney Campbell Trail You can’t walk, run or bike it just yet, but ambitious plans to link Tampa Bay with Naples are ...
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St. Pete’s SPIFFS festival raises a glass to immigrants, year-after-year: ‘We are celebrating what they added to the fabric of our country’

Scene from the 2025 SPIFFS Fair. In 1975, thousands of immigrants had recently moved to Pinellas County as the Vietnam war made their home countries ...
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Tampa Monitor: City Council to hear update to Land Development Code

A construction crane at the Rome Yard project in Tampa, Florida. Council sits this week with a 73-item regular agenda meeting Thursday, March 5 sandwiched ...
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Photos: Tampa protesters rally against Iran war and Cuban embargo

Protesters in Tampa, Florida on March 1, 2026. American intervention in two different parts of the world were top of mind for Tampa activists over the ...