Frank Miller and all the volunteers of “Save the Gandy” kept the bridge away from the wrecking ball back at the turn of the century. That organization became the Gandy Bridge and Friendship Trail Corporation, a non-profit created to keep Frienship TrailBridge alive. Our mission is to fund the operation and maintenance of the bridge, which [...]
In St. Pete, selling from a pushcart after 9pm or before 7am violates a city ordinance. Sure sounds like a silly rule. But until the rule is changed, we can’t sell our t-shirts from a pushcart at night. Unless the St. Pete Times was in charge. A recent editorial says that if an ordinance is silly, [...]
Happy Birthday to the St. Pete Times! On July 25, 1884, editor J.M. “Doc” Baggett, printer M. Joel McMullen, and business manager Dr. J.L. Edgar published the first issue of the West Hillsborough Times. Based in Dunedin, it was a four-page weekly newspaper, printed in the back of Edgar’s pharmacy. Type was set by [...]
Let me start by warning you – butterfly gardening can easily become an obsession. It starts simply enough, when you notice some monarchs on your milkweed. Then the zebra longwings and gulf fritillaries start to haunt your passionvine, sending you out to look at the growing caterpillars daily. When the swallowtails start to visit, impossibly [...]
For the second year in a row, the Tampa Bay Rays are looking to improve the team at the trade deadline, rather than have a fire sale. What should they do?
Of necessity, hospitals have grown crazily - ever try to find anything at Tampa General? Same thing with the IRS and with software programming. And your daily newspaper. It will take some money (and a big ball of guts) to knock it all down and start from scratch. But it might be worth it.
Keep your eyes on the road, and your hands upon the wheel.
“This blog sucks.” OK, he didn’t use those words, but that was what I took from an anonymous comment left by “Droopy,” in early June: Blogs are not supposed to repeat old news the archiac newspapers have already covered. Simply linking to the newspaper websites is not a thing to be valued. After five years of doing this, [...]
Walking through native Florida forests can feel a lot like a trip to Jurassic Park, due to the proliferation of ferns and cycads in Florida’s natural landscape. These plants have been around since the time of the dinosaurs and, like the American Alligator, have survived the dynamic changes of earth and man ever since. One of [...]
