In 2004, the city of Tampa began enforcing a teenage curfew in Ybor City. The usual reasons: a lot of stuff can happen when teenagers are cruising around in the wee hours, and none of it is good. The curfew currently prohibits those under 18 from hanging out in Tampa’s historic/entertainment district between 11 p.m. [...]
As we’ve now been informed, Hillsborough County Administrator Pat Bean has to cut more than $50 million from the county budget. Among the unkindest cuts: nearly 500 positions and a 25 percent reduction in subsidies to county-supported nonprofit agencies. And more. Including funding ($519,000) for the Tampa Educational Cable Consortium and the Tampa Bay Community [...]
Even if the Bucs have trouble finding the end zone again this season, their fans at Raymond James Stadium shouldn’t have a problem locating the wet zones. After initial approval by Tampa City Council, it appears that Bucs’ fans through out Raymond James Stadium will have access to hard liquor. Heretofore, it was beer only [...]
Like some of you, I suspect, I tuned in to that CNN/YouTube presidential debate the other night out of curiosity. I’ve certainly seen plenty of these over-hyped, sound-bite circuses that are top-heavy with too many candidates and too many pundits explaining too much of what we just saw and heard. And, imagine, there’s another 16 [...]
According to Kipplinger.com, the Tampa Bay Area ranks number one as the best “city” for retirees and number six for the retiree-empty nester parlay. “This is Florida’s finest venue to kick start a second or third act,” notes Kiplinger. It cites St. Petersburg for its mix of “good living, arts, culture and entrepreneurship.” Tampa notables [...]
Anybody else have this reaction? Last week a page one (local/state section) story in a Bay Area daily (ok, it was the St. Petersburg Times) ran a story that carried the headline “Teen Shot in Store Robbery.” Would that such a story were rare – and truly page-one news — but that’s another matter. What [...]
Speaking of USF, the Bulls have some good reasons for ending the commitment to play the University of Central Florida in football after the next two (2007-08) games. They’re just not good enough reasons. USF has to play UCF as part of its exit agreement with C-USA in 2004. As soon as the obligation ends, [...]
The Department of Homeland Security has announced that anti-terror grants have increased substantially for San Diego, Phoenix and Denver, which might make those cities feel a bit safer. However, Orlando will be cut by a third ($3 million) and Miami by a fourth ($4 million). The good news: DHS thinks Orlando and Miami are likely [...]
The June issue of Vanity Fair magazine includes a piece by British writer Christopher Hitchens about his home town entitled “ Londonistan Calling.” It references this colorful comment by Steven Simon, a former White House counterterrorism official, who described today’s Muslim-impacting London as reminiscent of “the Star Wars bar scene.”
We know that South Tampa’s favorite football team, Plant High , is the defending Class 4-A state champion and has enough talent returning to possibly enable Coach Robert Weiner’s Panthers to make another run. That’s pretty heady stuff. What’s no less important is that Weiner’s efforts to hone championship skills and inculcate a winning football [...]
