No one really knows how long chickens have been roaming Ybor City. I’d guess they have been there since the late 1800s, but I know I have seen them strutting around Ybor for the last 25 years or so, which makes the “Chickens of Ybor City” an older franchise than many of the businesses [...]
I had an opportunity Saturday to attend an Anonymous vs. Scientology protest in Clearwater. For those readers who aren’t familiar with the string of global protests occurring in the last few months, here’s a quick primer: Anonymous is a loosely organized group of people from the internet who are protesting what they believe are Scientology’s human [...]
Former USF engineering professor Sami Al-Arian ended his hunger strike last week, taking a liquid meal for the first time in two months. Hours later, a federal appeals court affirmed the Virginia ruling holding the 49-year-old in contempt of court for refusing to testify in a federal investigation of Islamic charities accused of assisting terrorists. I [...]
