Over the past years, Hillsborough County has been adjusting the school calendar to better accommodate studies for FCAT testing. Those changes resulted in area students trudging back to school weeks before the rest of the country was even thinking about education. After public uproar, the state demanded that local school boards return the [...]
Update 11 Dec 2007: Due to the overwhelming SPAM on this post, comments have been shut down. The headline begs you to sympathize, but the story is really one of personal responsibility. Melanie Ave wrote the piece for the St. Pete Times: Foreclosure leaves them just this side of homeless. No, it’s not the [...]
Tourists leave more than just their money here. It’s time for the airport to get rid of all the stuff that you left behind. HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY AVIATION AUTHORITY NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION OF SURPLUS AND OBSOLETE PROPERTY AND LOST AND ABANDONED PROPERTY FOUND AT TAMPA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a sale by public [...]
Someone doesn’t care for a certain group of local young professionals. Check out this new website – emergetampabay.com Welcome to the Scourge of Tampa Bay! We are a pack of narcissistic do-nothings who demand attention. All we do is drink, it is our grand plan to support and lead the young professional community of [...]
Looks like WebRunner grew up a little in the past week. Version 0.8 is now known as Mozilla Prism. Now all you need to do is run Prism and set up your own “web apps” on your desktop, start menu, or quick launch bar. So what makes this cool for the non-geek out there? You can [...]
For those of you who think growth can just be completely stopped, think about this. Imagine a January Monday “up there” somewhere – you wake up early, pile on a bunch of clothes, put a parka on over that, and go start the car. Then you grab your snow shovel, create a path for [...]
Wow. I mean… wow! It was great meeting everyone that showed up at Bobalouie’s on Friday. Tommy, Wifey, Brett, Bob, Micheal, Miguel, Mariella, Lisa and more. Would have been nice to have a bigger turnout, but for short notice it was great fun. It hearkened back to the “glory days” when we had the Tampa Bay [...]
If you’re straight-laced, uptight, buttoned up, repressed, you probably won’t want to wade through the first two minutes of this video clip of a 2006 Arsenio Hall show to reach the most hilarious bit ever featuring a tiny Jewish sex expert who once trained as a sniper in Israel. While she and Arsenio visit an L.A. [...]
I can’t lie, it’s somewhat comforting to see injuries working in the Bucs favor for once as the Jags are forced to start a former receiver at quarterback. Tampa Bay’s roster has resembled a triage unit lately with injuries to half the offense, the latest to receivers Michael Clayton and Mark Jones. Hopefully, Garrad’s absence [...]
