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 Creative industries are mov-
ing to Ybor City. We hear Spec-
trum Post & Production, which
specializes in directing, editing,
special effects and animation, and
Sound Asylum, which does audio
for commercials and film, are
moving from Channelside to the


Latin Quarter. These companies
will be joining similar companies
like Tampa Digital and Gra-Fx
Design of Tampa Inc in making
Ybor their home.
 ***** *
 We hear County Commissioner
Ken Hagan's aide, Rich Reidy, is


talking with some in the Republi-
can Party about his options to run
for elected office this season. One
seat that's been mentioned is Kevin
Ambler's Florida House seat.
 *****
 Reasonable people finally ap-
plied commonsense to the Florida
Democratic Presidential Prefer-
ence Primary problem and came
to a compromise that works.
 The Democratic National Com-
mittee's Rules and Bylaws Com-
mittee met with representatives
from Florida on Saturday and
decided to modify the punishment
of Florida for violating the DNC's
rules by having its primary too
early. The decision is to let all of


Florida's 210 delegates be seated
at the convention but their votes
will be cut in half.
 Florida Democrats owe a debt
of gratitude to longtime Florida
Democratic Party member Jon
Ausman for filing the appeal to
the rules and bylaws committee
and for making a well-researched,
detailed and passionate presenta-
tion. While other Florida Demo-
cratic leaders pushed for solutions
that benefitted their preferred
presidential candidates, Mr. Aus-
man targeted a workable solution
in the most relevant forum avail-
able.
 Now the Florida Presidential
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 This photo was taken January 28, 1953. The crews were out to
remove the streetcar tracks. In this picture they are located at 21st
Street near Columbus Drive. The streetcars themselves had actu-
ally stopped running in August of 1946 after WWII. The call of
modernization was leading the country to diesel buses for mass


transit and Tampa didn't want to be left behind. The electric
Birney streetcars had been in use since 1892. They were Tampa's
choice for cheap, reliable, convenient transportation with over 53
miles of track. The streetcars had their peak in the 1920's with
nearly 24 million passengers in 1926. Research by Randall Kelly


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Al Pie de la Letra
Por Abel Ibarra


 El Golden Boy
 La persistencia de Oscar De La Hoya en los ensogados.
es algo que nos preocupa. Este joven hizo una carrera bril-
lante en el. amateur (gan medalla de oro olmpica) y en el
professional (fue varias veces campen mundial). Luego se de-
stac como promoter de boxeo con una empresa muy exitosa
y hasta puede tener gran future como actor de cine o TV.
Pero De La Hoya, llamado el muchacho de oro, se coloca en
un gran riesgo cuando se empecina en seguir activo en los
cuadrilteros. Ya no tiene la contundencia ni la velocidad de
antes y puede recibir golpes que lo daen para siempre. El
debe verse en el espejo del excelso Muhammad Ali, a quien
los comerciantes del pugilismo indujeron a pelear ms-tiem-
 (Pasa a la pgina 4)


 Dura faena la de los recoge-
dores de tomatoes en la Flori-
da. Hasta la semana pasada,
la firma Burger King le pagaba
a cada "Piscador" (traduccin
urgente del verbo "to pick up")
la cantidad de 45 centavos
por cada cubeta de tomatoes
recogida, recipient que con-
tiene 32 libras del fruto.
 La suma annual de lo ob-
tenido por cada trabajador
en esos campos del hambre,
dificilmente llegaba a los 10


mil dlares, salario que se en-
cuentra por debajo del umbral
de la pobreza crtica.
 Finalmente, luego de tres
aos de dura lucha para que
la compaa Burger King es-
cuchara sus peticiones, la "Co-
alition of Immokalee Workers",
logr el aumento de un centavo
por libra de tomate recogido, lo
cual permitir que cada cube-
ta sea pagada, prximamente,
a 77 centavos.
 La suma annual de estos


ingresos le permitir a cada
trabajador pasar de 10 mil
dlares a 17 mil para, ahora
s, estar por encima del nivel
 (Pasa a la pgina 2)


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