Five Tampa Bay Rays players decline to wear LGBTQ+ logo on uniform during Pride Night celebration
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CBS Sports ^
| June 5, 2022 | Andrew Julian
At least five players on the Tampa Bay Rays roster opted not to wear a patch the team added to their uniforms intended to celebrate Pride month in Saturday's 3-2 loss to the Chicago White Sox (box score). During
the team's 16th annual Pride Night celebration Rays caps and uniforms had logos colored in the style of the modern LGBTQ+ pride flag, but not everyone in the clubhouse chose to participate. Pitchers Jason Adam, Jalen Beeks, Brooks Raley, Jeffrey Springs and Ryan Thompson were among the players who did not wear the patch on their uniforms and chose to wear...
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Exclusive: Gov. Ron DeSantis to Veto $35 Million Tampa Bay Rays Facility Amid Polarization of Shootings
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Outkick ^
DeSantis’s decision is in response to the Rays politicizing recent shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde ahead of a matchup with the Yankees in May. Here’s what the Rays posted before the start of the game: (at link) The decision follows DeSantis’ response to Disney earlier this year. In
April, DeSantis revoked Disney’s special tax and self-governing privileges after the company injected itself into the debate over a Florida parental rights law, inaccurately dubbed as “Don’t Say Gay.” DeSantis is giving a voice to the people who do not want their sports and children’s companies on the front lines of the...
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New York Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays Pause Game Coverage to Highlight Gun Violence Stats
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Breitbart ^
| 05/26/2022 | Jordan Dixon-Hamilton
The New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Rays suspended their usual game coverage on Twitter to draw attention to gun violence within the United States. Typically, the two organizations’ Twitter accounts post live states about the game being played. Instead,
they posted statistics about gun violence on Thursday. The move by the two Major League Baseball teams comes in the aftermath of the Uvalde school shooting, where an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.
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Tampa Bay native plays Richard Nixon in new Showtime series 'The First Lady'
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Fox13news ^
| 04/13/2022 | Evan Axelbank
TAMPA, Fla. - Tampa Bay native Paul Wilson started doing impersonations of Richard Nixon as a high school student reading the morning announcements. He
never imagined it would lead to a job as an actor, playing the former president.
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Tampa Electric Co. Needs To Hire An Arborist To Tell Them Money Doesn't Grow On Trees
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Self | April 5, 2022 | Self
Budget Billing this year set our monthly bill at $200.00. Actual usage and cost for March-April 2022 was $147.06. I just cancelled Budget Billing with a snotty upstart young minority with one of those unpronounceable first names at their customer service line. This
company continues to tell you that "Budget Billing" will NEVER increase your cost of electricity because they monitor your meter each month. Then, the only time they adjust the amount is at the very beginning of the year and it always is an increase.
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Insane Tampa Electric Utility Bill and Corruption in County Government
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Self | March 12, 2022 | Self
Below is the text of a complaint we filed today with the Florida Public Service Commission: This electric utility contacted us a month ago and informed us that power usage in our residence had increased over the past 12 months (How--and Why? We are a couple in our 70's and have lived
in this house for 38 years. Nothing has changed. If anything, we have been upgrading to more energy efficient appliances as needed!) At the time of the "notice", our bill under TECO's "averaging" program was a whopping $164.00 per month. If we were ever a day late in...
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Tampa Bay Rays Catcher Jean Ramirez Dead At 28 After Team Sponsored ‘Vaccinate At The Plate’, Anne Graham Lotz Daughter Multiple Heart Attacks
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Now The End Begins ^
| 1/12/22 | Geoffrey Grider
trange things are happening, could it be possible they are all connected? Vaccinated
Betty White, who said she felt in “perfect health” died just a few days before her 100th birthday. Well, she was very old, and old people get strokes. OK. Comedian Bob Saget was 65, and on a nation-wide comedy tour. He was found dead in his hotel room bed from a likely heart attack 3 weeks after getting boosted. Hmm. Vaccinated Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright, daughter Anne Graham Lotz, just suffered two heart attacks, she is in her mid-40’s. Shall I continue? OK. Tampa Bay Rays bullpen catcher...
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Tampa Bay Rays Catcher Dies Suddenly At 28…
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Citizens Free Press ^
| 01/12/21 | Kane
The Rays announced this evening that bullpen catcher Jean Ramirez has passed away at age 28. A
late-round pick out of Illinois State in the 2016 draft, Ramirez played three seasons in Tampa Bay’s farm system before being released. Soon afterwards, however, the club rehired Ramirez for a new role as the bullpen catcher on the big league club, opening a door towards the coaching career Ramirez looked to establish. “He brought so much passion and energy each day to our clubhouse and bullpen, and his love for the Rays and baseball was evident to all. He had the biggest...
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Tampa Bay Rays catcher dies suddenly at 28
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https://citizenfreepress.com ^
| January 11, 2022 | Posted by Kane
A late-round pick out of Illinois State in the 2016 draft, Ramirez played three seasons in Tampa Bay’s farm system before being released. Soon
afterwards, however, the club rehired Ramirez for a new role as the bullpen catcher on the big league club, opening a door towards the coaching career Ramirez looked to establish.“He brought so much passion and energy each day to our clubhouse and bullpen, and his love for the Rays and baseball was evident to all. He had the biggest heart and the most infectious smile,” Cash said.The Rays did not announce Ramirez’s cause of death. Neander...
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What is going on at Tampa’s Blake High School?
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Tampa Bay Online ^
| 12/15/2021 | The Editorial Board
Several students at Blake High School accuse a teacher of sexually inappropriate behavior — and the Hillsborough School district drags its feet. A
teenage boy warns classmates about a student who repeatedly sexually harassed others — and the district expels the boy who raised the red flag. Another student says she was raped on campus — and she gets suspended. Time and again the adults in charge failed to take the students’ complaints seriously, a devastating Times investigation found. Instead, they targeted the whistleblowers, deflected blame and seemingly forgot that they aren’t supposed to turn high school into an even...
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers Coach Bruce Arians Hopes NFL Keeps Looking Into Vaccination Statuses
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ESPN ^
| 12/30/2021 | Jenna Laine
Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians said Friday that he believes the NFL needs to take a closer look at other teams after two of his players -- Antonio Brown and Mike Edwards -- and one former player, John Franklin III, were found to have provided fake vaccination cards. "We've
done everything. There's a lot more to that story. I just hope they don't stop looking," said Arians, who two weeks ago said that he had no reason to believe Brown or any player falsified their vaccination status. But an NFL investigation revealed that the three players presented the team with fake...
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Florida man exonerated after 37 years in prison sues Tampa, retired police over wrongful conviction
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Fox News ^
| 10 October 2021 | Peter Aitken
A Florida man exonerated of rape and murder after 37 years in prison is suing police and the city of Tampa over his wrongful conviction and initial death sentence. Robert
DuBoise, 56, left prison in late Aug. 2020 after officials revealed new evidence that proved his innocence. Untested DNA evidence from a rape kit proved he did not rape and murder 19-year-old Barbara grams in 1983. No one else had been arrested.
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Vanity : Tampa vs Dallas Game - just heard crowd chant ‘F@$! Joe Biden’
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Sept 9, 2021
Hahaha - I like Brady, else I wouldn’t watch …
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Treatment, not prison, for 'insane' driver who killed Tampa father of 2
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Fox13 Tampa Bay ^
| 8/31/21 | Gloria Gomez
The man who intentionally ran over a bicycling family three years ago was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Mikese
Morse is now headed to a mental health facility for treatment instead of prison. Hillsborough Judge Mark Kiser made it official Monday. "At this point, the court as entered a finding of not guilty by reason of insanity." Doctors representing the state and the defense agreed Morse did not know right from wrong at the time of the crime. "He did not know or appreciate the nature of his actions and the consequences, nor did he appreciate the wrongfulness...
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FORMER TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS OWNER TAKES OUT BRUTAL FULL PAGE WALL STREET JOURNAL AD BLASTING JOE BIDEN
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Clarion News ^
| 8/28/2021 | Matthew Burke
So far, the Biden regime’s decision to cut and run from Afghanistan with no real plan has resulted in the loss of 13 beloved military members and an untold number of deaths and injuries to individuals who were blown up by suicide bombers as they waiting desperately outside the Kabul airport on
Thursday to be airlifted out of the Islamic hell-hole nation. As a result of their reckless withdrawal, the Biden regime has deserted over 1,500 American citizens tens of thousands of Afghan allies, who can no longer get to the only operating airport in Afghanistan. Billions of dollars in...
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Hillsborough County Florida (Tampa) Schools restarted mask mandate today
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Hillsborough County School web site ^
| TheShaz
I have two kids in high school. As
parents my wife and I were given the option to OPT OUT of my kids having to wear masks at school. Two weeks into the school year they applied a mask mandate. Getting a feel from my kids how their other classmates are taking it. 70/30 Against masks vs for masks. Governor Desantis.....pinging Governor Desantis...please pick up the white courtesy phone..
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Tampa-area school district imposes mask mandate after 10K students forced to isolate
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The Hill ^
| 08/18/2021 | Joseph Choi
A Tampa-area school district, the eighth largest in the U.S., voted on Wednesday to issue a mask mandate after more than 10,000 students and staff members were forced into quarantine or isolation at the start of the school year. The
decision by the Hillsborough County School District conflicts with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's order that parents be given an option to opt their kids out of wearing masks at schools. The decision by the school board requires a doctor's note to prove a child cannot wear a mask, according to local Fox affiliate WTVT. "There is an immediate danger to...
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Tampa officer sues Sig Sauer for alleged defect that caused misfire, injury
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fox13news.com ^
| Aug. 6, 2021 | Catherine Hawley
TAMPA, Fla. - A Tampa Police Reserve Officer says his department-issued service weapon fired without pulling the trigger, seriously injuring him. The
30-year veteran of the force is now suing the company that manufactures the firearm.Last February, Bob Northrop was working an extra duty assignment as a TPD Reserve Officer patrolling Jefferson High School during a baseball game. Northrop says he was standing just feet from students and their families when his hand brushed his holstered service weapon."And the very second I touched the gun, it discharged," Northrop said. "I tried to take another step and I couldn't."The 69-year-old needed...
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New USCIS Asylum Office to Open in Tampa on Aug. 2
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https :// www . uscis . gov / news / news - releases / new - uscis - asylum - office - to - open - in - tampa - on - aug - 2 ^
TAMPA, Florida—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will open a new asylum office in Tampa on Aug. 2, in response to an increasing asylum workload in Florida. The new office becomes the 11th asylum office in the country and the second in Florida, joining the existing Miami Asylum Office. The Tampa and
Miami asylum offices will divide the state’s asylum workload. Florida currently leads the country in asylum applications filed with USCIS, and more than a quarter of the national pending caseload is from Florida residents. The addition of the Tampa Asylum Office will help USCIS resolve urgent cases quickly...
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Tampa Man Who Torched Champs Sports Store During BLM Riot Gets 5 Years In Prison
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B911 ^
| July 29, 2021
Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Thomas Barber has sentenced Terrance Lee Hester Jr. (21, Tampa) to five years in federal prison for damaging or destroying by fire a building used in interstate commerce. The
court also ordered Hester to pay restitution and to serve three years of supervised release following completion of his prison sentence. According to court documents, the events that led to Hester’s conviction occurred around midnight on May 31, 2020, in a shopping plaza located at 2301 East Fowler Avenue in Tampa. Simultaneously with a peaceful protest going on in the area, certain individuals began to...
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