From the City of Tampa: NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release For additional information, contact: Liana Lopez Public Affairs Director (813) 274-8251 Liana.Lopez@tampagov.net Mayor Signs Executive Order to Increase Opportunity for Small Businesses to Compete for City Contracts Tampa, Fla. (May 3, 2007) – Mayor Pam Iorio signed an Executive Order today expanding opportunities for small businesses to better compete for city projects. The new approach [...]
One of the traditions in Tallahassee are “Days”… Groups all over the state organize specific days during the annual legislative session where members and affiliates will travel to Tallahassee to lobby the Legislature. Groups used to give out some cool chotchkes… I still have some mugs, pens, keychains, umbrellas, totebags, etc from my days [...]
I’d like to learn more about this “Internet” thing. There is no year, but it’s gotta be early 80’s at best.
I was sitting at my favorite coffee location this morning reading an actual paper version of the Tampa Tribune – yes, I am still sans laptop – when I saw a GREAT headline: Miller Wants Fall Elections It seems she wasn’t happy that only 1 in 6 registered voters in Tampa bothered to show up on election [...]
This is a press release from my day job. If you know any nonprofit organizations in the Tampa Bay area, please feel free to forward the information to them. (Thanks Tommy for letting me post it here!) For Immediate Release Affari Edge Announces Grant Program for Non-Profits: $5,000 to Enter Social Media TAMPA, Florida – Affari Edge, a [...]
At the end of a recent blog post by Brett McMurphy, who covers the University of South Florida sports for the Tampa Tribune, was the following paragraph: I’ve been told by the higher ups we’re doing away with the comments portion of the blog. Instead, you can go to the Forum: Talk Bulls link at [...]
NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release For additional information, contact: Liana Lopez, Director Public Affairs Division (813) 274-8497 liana.lopez@tampagov.net Mayor to Take Oath of Office Ceremony to Mark Start of Second Term Tampa, Fla. (March 29, 2007) – The City of Tampa will swear in Mayor Pam Iorio and members of Tampa City Council on Sunday, April 1, 2007 during the city’s Oath of [...]
9:02 pm - The results are in. Gwen Miller has won re-election to the City Council. There were 297 more votes cast in this election than the total cast in District 1’s primary. Almost as many as were cast in the Mayoral election (91 votes short). Turnout was indeed higher. City Council, District 1 112 of 112 Precincts [...]
I decided to live blog the runoff election results – mostly because it was so much fun to do the first time. PoHo has a report that turnout would be around 14% – about the same as for the primary. 7:07 pm - Miller takes the early lead with the early voters, by an almost two-to-one margin: [...]
