*Best sign the Iorio Administration could hit the ground running: Fred Karl is in the house. *If you’re looking for hints about the modus operandi of Mayor Iorio, here’s one man’s opinion. “She’ll shake things up without being threatening.” That’s from the mayor’s dad, John Iorio. *Speaking of John Iorio, the former USF English professor [...]
To liberally paraphrase John F. Kennedy: “Ask not only what our city can do for us — and our storm water, drug-hole and economic development issues — but what we can do for our city.” These next four years will be very challenging economically. Volunteering and mentoring have rarely been more important. Our new mayor [...]
John Acosta has finally been sentenced for the beating death of classmate James Brier in October 2001. He was sentenced to nine years in prison and three years probation plus anger management counseling on the manslaughter conviction. The 19-year-old Acosta finally showed emotion in court by crying. More notable, however, was the deportment of his [...]
In its recent “developer-mayor” editorial, the St.Petersburg Times made much of outgoing Tampa Mayor Dick Greco’s “loose and forgiving managerial style.” That certainly is true, even if the assessment that the last Greco years were “the most ethically compromised administration in modern times” seems overly harsh. But to attribute much of Pam Iorio’s impressive mayoral [...]
The Buccaneers, as we now know, will open the 2003 season on Monday night, Sept. 8, in Philadelphia. It’s a rematch of the 2002 NFC Championship Game. As we also know, the Bucs aren’t pleased. NFL protocol has been allowing the defending Super Bowl champ to open at home, let alone on the road against [...]
The Buccaneers, as we now know, will open the 2003 season on Monday night, Sept. 8, in Philadelphia. It’s a rematch of the 2002 NFC Championship Game. As we also know, the Bucs aren’t pleased. NFL protocol has been allowing the defending Super Bowl champ to open at home, let alone on the road against [...]
Given U.S. Rep. Jim Davis’ recent “fact-finding” sortie to Cuba, it only seemed appropriate to meet over café con leche at Tampa’s El Pilon. The Tampa congressman is an acknowledged rookie on this still volatile subject and clearly doesn’t want to make ideological or political enemies. The upshot is that he likely won’t make much [...]
Sept. 11 and the attack on Iraq mean that the color orange is an all-too-familiar alert hue. Nowhere is it brighter than in Washington. Recently U.S. Capitol Police Chief Terry Gainer warned House members to be on the lookout for assassins. It doesn’t get any redder than that. Congressman Jim Davis, D-Fla., said the threat [...]
For all the “shock and awe” scenarios at play in the attack on Iraq, perhaps the most shocking development so far was the gory grenade-and-rifle attack on American troops — perpetrated by an American soldier. Fifteen were injured and one — 27-year-old Army Captain Christopher Scott Seifert — was killed at a brigade headquarters in [...]
To Hyde Park residents, it’s become a familiar sight. In this case, it was several trucks and a couple of vans crowding around an Orleans Avenue house for the better part of 12 hours on a Saturday. An off-duty police officer was there to help out. It was a New York production company filming a [...]
