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Jeff Houck: Growler ban was full of gas

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In the beer world, a growler is a vessel used for transporting freshly brewed beer. The legend goes that the name came from the sound of carbon dioxide escaping from beneath the lid of the metal pails used in the 1930s to transport beer. These days, growlers have evolved into glass jugs. The escaping gas? It’s more political in nature. For three years, Florida’s craft beer proponents fought to get the Legislature to change state law to allow craft breweries…

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Sierra Club says it has NOT taken a position on proposed transportation tax

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Earlier this month this news organization reported in a headline that the Tampa Bay Sierra Club opposed the proposed half-cent transportation tax that may go before Hillsborough County voters next year. The next day we wrote a follow-up report with Sierra Club program director Pat Kemp, who said that the Club had not opposed the measure, but instead was calling for the county government to implement other measures first before it could come around to possibly consider its support, such as raising the gas tax.…

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Sierra Club says BOCC needs to change things now before it will support transportation tax

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Pat Kemp, the program chair of the Tampa Bay Sierra Club, says it’s not so much that the organization is completely against the proposed half-cent sales transportation tax that could come before Hillsborough County voters next year (as SPB first reported on Wednesday night). It’s just that the group wants to see the county commit to other issues dealing with development and transportation that don’t require taxpayer approval before coming out and fully backing the measure. That includes raising development fees, changing a…

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