The printed edition of the St. Pete Times (story not found online) says Clearwater gets more than $4 million a year from 3,000 parking meters, while St. Pete gets $891,000 (1,450 meters) and Tampa collects $1,000,000 from 1,600. Each of the three cities issue over 30,000 parking tickets at $20 to $25 per pop, too. [...]
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You are right. There are a million other things much more important than this. But when I was looking up the info for the 75th birthday of the ‘Courtney Campbell’ Causeway, we found out that Ben Davis built it with his own money. Courtney later convinced the state to pony up the dough for improvements, leading [...]
The Clearwater Jazz Holiday has become Clearwater's biggest annual event. And it's FREE!
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 [...]
In mid-June, the St. Pete Times ran a three part special report on the inside workings of the upper levels of Scientology, and the community simply shrugged. On Thursday, they came out with a follow up story. Please allow me to paraphrase: We ran a three part special report on the inside workings of the upper levels [...]
The Courtney Campbell Causeway linking Tampa and Clearwater recently reached 75 years of age, and local history buffs celebrated the birthday, and put up a new historical marker. Those of you who read the stories will know that Ben T. Davis built the thing, but his name has since been relegated to an undesirable excuse of [...]
Allright, so our efforts over the last ten years to prepare for drought times have been, uh, let’s just say “somewhat short of a complete success.” And once again, we are facing severe water shortages where we are basically demanding everyone just stop watering the grass. But wait… Haven’t we been under restrictions [...]
