Wayne Garcia and the kids over at Creative Loafing were tipped off to some possible hanky-panky in Brian Blair’s campaign, including contributions seemingly from developer Steven Dibbs that may exceed state limits. I’m sure there must be some mistake. Update October 2, 10.45am: Blair says there is no hanky-panky, and produced an invoice and check stub to the [...]
Kevin Beckner is challenging Brian Blair in the election for District 6 of the Hillsborough County Board of Commissioners. As you know, local leaders are responsible for a myriad of issues that directly affect your life. Because of this, we really want to count on the daily newspapers to tell us [...]
Eric Deggans has found that Creative Loafing has filed for bankruptcy. According to the original story in CL’s Washington City Paper, CEO Ben Eason is just thrilled with the development: “The term ‘bankruptcy’ conjures up all kinds of images and demons but it is essentially a legal proceeding designed to give an over-leveraged company the time, [...]
tbt* claims there is a terrible trend going on in local schools (you’ll have to flip to page T5, and you’ll have to do it today): YET ANOTHER CHALLENGE FOR POOR SCHOOLS: THEY GET LION’S SHARE OF MISCREANT TEACHERS The gist of the article is that schools with a high rate of low-income students get more bad [...]
In order to make your vote count in the November elections, you must be registered to vote by October 6. Let me repeat that: You only have one week remaining to REGISTER TO VOTE IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY. Likewise, You only have one week remaining to REGISTER TO VOTE IN PINELLAS COUNTY. I implore you to take an active [...]
From a Hillsborough County press release: The 11th Annual Teenage Battle of the Bands, hosted by the Hillsborough County Parks, Recreation and Conservation Department, will be held November 6 – 7, 2008 at the Hillsborough County Fair. The event is scheduled from 6 – 11 p.m. at the new Fairgrounds, located at 4810 E. State Road [...]
Gary A. Poole contacted us, told us he had written about Tampa’s first professional football game, and asked us to pimp his new book, The Galloping Ghost: Red Grange, an American Football Legend. I asked him to write something up about Grange’s time in Tampa, and so he did (I added the images, which are [...]
The Rays appear to be a bind going into their first ever playoff series next week: they do not have anyone lined up to throw out the first pitch (Note: the emphasis is mine). Pros Cons Jon Gruden Coach of most popular team in Tampa Bay Limited availability during season Dick Vitale Most visible Rays fan May result in Cincy mayor debacle Barry [...]
When journalists start working on their multi-media stuff, sometimes they expose the work to an adoring public before it is actually published. Case in point – rhythmnation2004, a contributor at SkyScraper City, found this very interesting collage of the History of the Floridan building created by TBO online producer Kathy Moore. Kathy had previously done the [...]
