Since the second day of 2010, your thermometer has not seen 60 degrees. Between January 2 and January 12, the overnight low temperature reached 40 degrees only twice. Five of those nights were at or below freezing. Anytime the temperature drops below 32 degrees, crops can be lost to freeze. Luckily, it hasn’t [...]
There are five – yes FIVE! – new ramps opening in and around that tangle of roads southwest of Tampa International Airport. They open tomorrow – Tuesday, and THEY WILL CHANGE YOUR ROUTE. That hellish bit of interchange where motorists are shuffled between Westshore, I-275, Tampa Stadium, Tampa International Airport (George Bean Parkway), the Veteran’s Expressway, [...]
In the name of SECURITY, you will now be groped at all Buccaneers games at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium, even though these pat-downs don’t work. In the name of SECURITY, x-ray photos of you will be taken at the Tampa Airport beginning next Friday, even though these create images of you [...]
Please tell me why the person used to demonstrate the new body scanning machines at Tampa International Airport – as seen on the Metro front in Friday’s St. Petersburg Times - is a buff young woman and not a fat old man? Whomever she is – let’s call her Big Boobs Girl – certainly does not represent [...]
Darron Derrick missed his plane out of Tampa International. He says it’s because the Transportation Security Administration uses “Nazi-style, police-state tactics.” At the X-ray machine, he placed his laptop inside its case on the belt and went through the metal detector. An officer informed him the computer and case had to go through again separately. [...]
