It’s not been a good fortnight for Fidel Castro. Apparently the Cuban president was duped recently by a couple of Cuban-American disc jockeys in Miami. The WXDJ-FM radio announcers got through Castro’s gatekeepers to get him on a phone prank — using the guise of an incoming call from his new best buddy, Venezuelan President [...]
Call it bad policy, good debate. That pretty much sums up the recent debate — hosted by the law firm of Trenam Kemker — on the contentious issue of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba — as in should it be lifted? Prominent, Havana-born, Tampa attorney Ralph Fernandez said, among many other things, “No.” Tampa [...]
Locally, Cuba remains topical and emotional, but the context — to Tampa’s consummate credit — is typically civil. May veto power over U.S. foreign policy never be exercised from this part of the state. *The topic of legal trade eventually became too hot for the Port of Tampa to ignore indefinitely, and next month a [...]
Tampa lost a valuable asset recently with the passing of Ike Tribble. The 62-year-old black educator and community leader was unique. An intellectual, civil rights activist, role model and nice guy who moved between the white and black communities with equal credibility, good humor and influence. He could personally bridge the powerful and the barely [...]
Call it an idea whose time has been beckoning for a while. That is, an effective, cost-efficient way to get the word out — literally — about what to do in Tampa once you get the visitors here. As in first getting the word out to those — such as hotel desk clerks and museum [...]
It’s not been a good fortnight for Fidel. Apparently the Cuban president has been duped by a couple of Cuban-American disc jockeys in Miami. The WXDJ-FM radio announcers, Joe Ferrero and Enrique Santos, got through Castro’s gatekeepers to get Castro on a phone prank — using the guise of an incoming call from Venezuelan President [...]
It’s not been a good fortnight for Fidel. Apparently the Cuban president has been duped by a couple of Cuban-American disc jockeys in Miami. The WXDJ-FM radio announcers, Joe Ferrero and Enrique Santos, got through Castro’s gatekeepers to get Castro on a phone prank — using the guise of an incoming call from Venezuelan President [...]
That unfortunate, unnecessary death of the “Toughman” woman in Sarasota is now a national story. A key focus is the typically nominal oversight and supervision of such events, where mismatches frequently occur and unskilled fighters are often injured and sometimes killed. In fact, 12 men have died in such events since the “sport’s” inception in [...]
Resolved: This is the last mention of errand-running at the Public Defender’s Office. Ditto for hand-me-down, ensemble sales at the County Attorney’s Office. This is also the lone reference to anyone trying to back out of a prenuptial agreement or someone having a parallel- universe family. In fact, nowhere else will it be noted that [...]
Just when you think you’ve seen the last of the ramifications of the so-called voters’ mandate for fewer students per classroom, yet another one surfaces. Just when you think you’ve heard all the budget scenarios and been privy to all the possible ripple effects, another legislative stone comes skimming across the people’s pond in Tallahassee. [...]
