''La Gaceta'' is a weekly newspaper in

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, founded in 1922. Published in English, Spanish, and Italian, it is the only trilingual newspaper in the

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. The paper was founded by Victoriano Manteiga, a former '' lector'' in the

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factories of West Tampa and

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, to serve the needs of the immigrant population of Tampa. Later, his son Roland Manteiga took over as editor and publisher. Roland was very well connected, and his column "As We Heard It", became the local mid-20th century version of today's

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s, often breaking stories and predicting events before the area's "major" newspapers. Today, ''La Gaceta'' is still published weekly under the direction of Roland's son, Patrick Manteiga, who has assumed authorship of the "As We Heard It" column. Additional editors are Manuela Ball (Spanish Section) and Giuseppe Maniscalco (Italian Section). Other columnists include Arturo Rivera, Joe O'Neill, Richard Muga, Emily Carney, Paul Guzzo, Leonardo Venta, Harvey Grajales, Gene Siudut, Kyle Dion and Travis Puterbaugh.

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