A new state law went into effect on July 1 in support for Florida-Friendly gardeners everywhere! The new law states specifically that HOAs can no longer prohibit homeowners from applying Florida-Friendly landscaping!
Whenever we have to conserve water, news outlets love to point out those high-profile names that are using more than their fair share. ABC Action News published lists of top water users for each area, and stories told by the St. Pete Times, My Fox Tampa Bay and others pointed out that the Don Wallace [...]
Former Polk County Sheriff’s Deputy Scott Lawson is in Vermont, serving a 15 year prison sentence for sexually abusing young men. Lawson used his authority as a cop to “examine” his victims. According to the St. Pete Times, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) knew Lawson was doing creepy things on May 16, 2002. Between midnight [...]
Sheriff Grady Judd has changed the menu at Polk County Jail: The new menu, announced with much fanfare Wednesday, substitutes crackers, frozen egg patties and water for cornbread, fresh eggs and a variety of beverages, and will save an estimated $195,000, Sheriff Grady Judd said. He said he hopes to eventually cut $200,000 from the jail’s [...]
This entire thing is a mess. The one who got beat up sounds like a jerk; fights with her mother ended up with her on probation, and she allegedly talks bad about her peers. She’s so uncontrollable that her parents give up raising her, and allow her to move out at the age of sixteen. After [...]
The Tampa Tribune says the Polk County Jail housed more people per capita than any jail in the state in 2006, and ranked fifth in the nation among cites or counties with their own jail systems. Sixty percent of the crimes committed on USF’s main campus are from people who have no affiliation with the school. [...]
Even Lakeland businesses are counting down to Tampa’s Super Bowl. Polk Businesses Should Get Lots Of Spillover When Fans Flood Tampa “The great thing for a family, if they stay in Lakeland, they’re halfway to events in the Super Bowl and also close to Disney,” [executive director of the Tampa Bay Super Bowl Host Committee Reid] Sigmon [...]
From the Polk County BOCC webpage: Polk County is strategically located in the center of the Florida peninsula, about equal distance from the east and west coast and half way between the Georgia-Florida border and the Southern tip of the peninsula. Polk lies on the Interstate-4 corridor, 25 miles east of Tampa and 35 miles southwest [...]
