It’s probably not a good idea to sell bricks at a parade.
Instead of a secure courthouse, we got a three hour attempt to cover ass. It may be time to kill the county security force and just hire the Sheriff's office.
Another thing to worry about. For two years, Tarpon Springs cops have been ticketing cars for parking in valid parking spots. In a dispute between business owners, one of them put up fake ‘no parking’ signs, and then may have called cops on the other business owners’ customers. A couple years ago, developer Mike Bronson admitted [...]
Did you hear about this one? In Tuesday’s print edition, the St. Pete Times says a Tampa hit-and-run death stymies police: Three months ago, a driver in an SUV killed a woman crossing a South Tampa street and fled. It happened Feb. 8, at 8:27 p.m. on a Sunday. Melissa Sjostrom, 33 and homeless, was limping across Hyde [...]
Ernst and Young released their audit of our Supervisor of Elections budget: … former Hillsborough County Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson overspent his budget by nearly $1 million last year and then violated state law by failing to reimburse the county. …former Hillsborough Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson mishandled grant money, failed to properly oversee finances within his office [...]
Here in Tampa, long the minor league feeder system for the Jerry Springer Show (I’m not sure that show is even still on the air, but I’ll bet many of our teachers are still willing to have sex with their students, just in case), we have proven once again that our ability to demonstrate misbehavior [...]
Tommy’s helpful hints #472: If you are going to have a birthday party at a local park, make sure none of your children pull the pin on any of the grenades you find. “Better judgment prevailed, and I called 911,” [David] Sapp, 70, said. Good move, Mr. Sapp. Tampa police’s bomb team arrived and took the grenades to another [...]
… like a ten year old turd. Here it is, two days after election day, and we still don’t have a full count of votes in Hillsborough County. “Hillsborough County stood out for Election Day miscues.“ “To have more than 80,000 votes uncounted by the end of Wednesday and pushed into Thursday is a total [...]
The Tampa Housing Authority can now move to evict Karen Peoples. For those of you who have not been following this story, I recommend you read the original Tribune article. But here’s the short version: The Tampa Housing Authority (THA) is responsible for about 8,500 residents living in sixteen public housing properties around the City of [...]
