Once again, Ronda Storms uses her colorful language skills to dis an entire class of citizens. But this time I happen to agree with her. We wrote about the recent tax cut hike, and briefly mentioned a million dollar allocation for a noise wall at Cheval. The Tribune’s Mark Holan’s article on Saturday tells us of [...]
The Washington Post reports that just about every company that can slap together a proposal to help with the dangers of roadside bombs is doing so. This includes St. Petersburg-based Octatron, Inc. I have never heard of Octatron. Basically they are a local provider of wireless camera and sophisticated surveillance systems. We found a photo set [...]
If you have kids in school, and don’t qualify for the free or reduced lunch program, you better pay the school lunch bill. Otherwise your child will be stuck eating a cheese sandwich every single day. The school district placed the rule in effect at the beginning of school last year, and the results are immediate [...]
A beautiful young woman died in a car crash in New Jersey a couple weeks ago. She has now been identified as Tampa area supermodel Heather Bratton. The young girl from Wesley Chapel was making her way through the glamour business, and was recently showcased on the cover of Vogue-Italy. Please direct your good thoughts toward the entire [...]
65 years ago… July 31, 1941 – The Tampa Housing Authority and MacDill Field open Gadsden Homes, a $900,000 housing project consisting of 300 units, to the families of enlisted men and civilian Army employees. The homes, located on MacDill Avenue adjoining the base, were the fourth government-housing units established under the Tampa Housing Authority. The [...]
A Fort Lauderdale blogger considers moving to Tampa, compares South Florida with West Central, and decides against it. Boltsmag and the Best Bucs Blog tells us about the TBBJ’s inside look at the Buccaneers new training facility. Port Tampa is looking for a replacement blogger… no experience necessary. Stuck in the 80’s is celebrating their one-year anniversary with a makeover! They [...]
30 years ago… July 30, 1976 – Hillsborough Sheriff Department detectives and Florida Beverage Department agents recover 2,532 cases of hijacked beer in a raid on a refrigerated truck parked at a Gibsonton marina. The Budweiser beer, valued at $15,000 ($51,497 in today’s dollars), was stolen on July 26 from the Wes-Flo Co., Inc., warehouse at [...]
So last month we learned that Tampa is a finalist for the 2008 Republican National Convention. Actually I found it more facinating to see our two biggest local papers fall all over themselves to tell us about the horror that would be visited upon us were we to host the latest Republican coronat… I mean [...]
60 years ago… July 29, 1946 – Workers begin to raze the old wooden office building at the Clyde Mallory Steamship Lines at the foot of Franklin Street to make way for a modern concrete and steel building after the line resumes shipping operations. The building, according to Mallory representative H.R. Felix, was one of the [...]
