Midtown Resources showcases organizations, community centers, information and people who provide help and services to the local communities in a variety of issues. NNB is compiling all information about service providers in 2017 and will keep adding to this resource page. If you know of an organization that provides service to the community in any way, please contact us.
Category: MIDTOWN NEWS
Parent category for all other news categories.
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Midtown K-12 News
Midtown K-12 News is a USFSP Neighborhood News Bureau program to improve media and journalism education in South St. Petersburg. USFSP NNB students work with local teachers and programs to develop curriculum, enhance student learning, provide hands-on training, develop experiential learning and field trip opportunities and much more.
NNB students work as interns or volunteers with one or more programs providing assistance to the teachers and media managers. Our NNB students work in the classrooms and newsrooms on a weekly basis and report back to our K-12 liaison and to the NNB faculty supervisor.
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Community Journalism Resources
Starting in the spring of 2017, USFSP faculty and students engaged in community journalism research will be sharing their publications on this page. We are also compiling hundreds of resources to help journalists and community members to report on their own communities. Below, you can find a list of resources by topic. If you would like to recommend any particular resource, please contact nnb@usfsp.edu.
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Community Grant Program to Up Its Funding In 2017
The city of St. Petersburg approved the CRA, a community redevelopment financing grant. Find out more about what this means for the Midtown community in the link below.
Read the full article in The Weekly Challenger: http://theweeklychallenger.com/community-grant-program-to-up-its-funding-in-2017/
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Where are the voices of Midtown in the Tropicana Field redevelopment?
“Even though the construction of Tropicana Field did, in some ways, bring new life to the city according to some, the stadium was a catalyst for a lot of the rebirth of downtown St. Petersburg, but to many in Midtown it remains a point of contention.”
Written by NNB student Erin Murphy, this article was published in The Weekly Challenger Newspaper. Other students that contribute to this report: Alana Long and Jessie Santero (research), Caitlin Clem and Shelby Brown (visuals).
Read this article:
http://theweeklychallenger.com/where-are-the-voices-of-midtown-in-the-tropicana-field-redevelopment/
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Midtown Plaza struggles to stay in business
“Going grocery shopping for the week is a chore within itself. Without any means of transportation, that errand often becomes an all-day affair. This situation is the reality for many Midtown residents, and as it stands, their fate rests in the hands of the City of St. Petersburg, and what will become of Tangerine Plaza, or as it is now known, the Midtown Plaza.”
Written by NNB student Anna Welch, this article was published in The Weekly Challenger Newspaper. Other students that contribute to this report: Kaitlyn Kelley (editor), Alana Long (research) and Mary Putulin (visuals).
Read the full story :
http://theweeklychallenger.com/midtown-plaza-struggles-to-stay-in-business/
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John Lewis talks to St. Petersburg
Lewis speaks on the importance of voting, optimism in the face of fear, and endorses Charlie Crist
photo by Jonah King, John Lewis and Charlie Crist preparing to talk to the crowd BY JONAH KING
Neighborhood News BureauCivil rights is a 9-word problem: “Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, I Have a Dream.”
Those nine words are the universal American understanding of the civil rights movement of the 1960’s.
Another two words you may want to add to the list are John Lewis. You’ve still only breached the surface, but Lewis’s experiences and perspective speak volumes to the cold dark realities of racism and the peaceful combat against it in the civil rights era.
Lewis is a proponent of getting in trouble, something we were told as kids by our parents not to get in. But the trouble Lewis is talking about he refers to as good trouble, the same sort of trouble that got him arrested during the sit-ins and the march on Selma.
At the event hosted by the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Lewis and Crist spoke on the state of the election, expressed their political views, and Lewis reflected on the Civil Rights era. Lewis also gave a ringing endorsement for Charlie Crist’s House bid. Crist won the seat defeating incumbent Republican David Jolly.
Lewis and Crist talk Civil Rights and Voting
Lewis talks Trump and the 2016 Election
Lewis talks March
Lewis talks Voter Turnout
