There may be no more sobering comment on the times we’re living in than the ongoing debate about torture. As in two sides. As in: Wasn’t there a time when torture would have been about as suitable a topic for “debate” as pedophilia? Or the Holocaust? Or Jim Crow laws? Can there really be a [...]
It still remains to be seen what the long-term effects will be of the Amman atrocities ordered up by Jordanian-born terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The aftermath of the hotel suicide bombings, which took 59 civilian lives including celebrants at a wedding reception, prompted a groundswell of local anger against Zarqawi. A recent audio tape [...]
It still remains to be seen what the long-term effects will be of the Amman atrocities ordered up by Jordanian-born terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The aftermath of the hotel suicide bombings, which took 59 civilian lives including celebrants at a wedding reception, prompted a groundswell of local anger against Zarqawi. A recent audio tape [...]
Earlier this month Visit Florida, the state’s tourist promotion organization, unveiled a new logo in London. No longer was it: FLA USA VISIT FLORIDA It’s now: VISITFLORIDA Not that anyone needs reminding that Florida is in the USA. But the USA absence is a reminder that in the current international environment, the USA tagline is [...]
In her role as president of the Tampa Downtown Partnership, Christine Burdick makes many presentations chronicling downtown developments and underscoring priorities of the private, not-for-profit organization. Among those who are regularly privy to her project updates and mantra about the value and impact of a hub city’s downtown: the Hillsborough County Commission. For all the [...]
In her role as president of the Tampa Downtown Partnership, Christine Burdick makes many presentations chronicling downtown developments and underscoring priorities of the private, not-for-profit organization. Among those who are regularly privy to her project updates and mantra about the value and impact of a hub city’s downtown: the Hillsborough County Commission. For all the [...]
Just when you think you’ve seen – and heard – it all at City Council meetings, doesn’t that activist cut-up Tony Daniel go and top himself again. The other day Daniel laced one of his routine rants with a bunch of obscenities aimed at City Councilwoman Mary Alvarez, who wasn’t even there. (The obscenities were [...]
The Tampa literati scene now includes Wall Street Journal reporter Theo Francis. He recently included his newly adopted hometown in the Journal’s Travel Page feature: “Off The Beaten Track.” According to Francis, here’s where to go to: Commune with nature: Crystal River, Fort De Soto Park Refuel: Hurricane restaurant (St. Pete Beach), Bern’s Steak House [...]
The feel-good feeling feels fine, thank you. For those keeping score, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays are still pitching shutouts. Still undefeated in the off-season. Still scoring PR coups during football and hockey season. Even Devil Rays’ press conferences are upgrades. The most recent one, the well-orchestrated announcing of Joe Maddon as manager, had a [...]
State Senator Jim Sebesta, chairman of Senate Transportation Committee, is considering the sponsorship of a bill that would restrict teenaged drivers’ cell-phone use. Here’s some advice for the St. Petersburg senator: Don’t consider it any longer. Just sponsor it. Sebesta will be researching statewide accident statistics to look for correlations between cell-phone use and crashes. [...]
