It’s probably not a good idea to sell bricks at a parade.
Creative Loafing suggests that it is just perceptions that are hurting Ybor City, and says that the neighborhood may be ready for a revival. Ybor City Chamber of Commerce president Tom Keating blames the media for Ybor City’s bad reputation (I added the links below). Keating says… Crime is down nearly 70 percent in Ybor, and [...]
Vacant homes are being ignored by their owners (lenders & banks), and have become a great place for people who don’t want to be found. Empty homes are vandalized by teens and occupied by vagrants. They’re stripped of their valuable metals by thieves who destroy them in the process. Then they get taken over by drug [...]
In Tampa, a small group of neighbors have created a single blog to convince the city to react quickly on a specific allegedly problematic property.
In a mystical survey of 100 cities by Children’s Health, Tampa ranks 94th in the “Best (and Worst) Places to Raise a Family.” Burlington, VT is ranked number 1. VT is short for “Vermont,” which is somewhere past Canada, I think. If it exists at all – I’ve never heard anyone claim to be from [...]
Modeled after the Amber Alert, the Silver Alert is an emergency system in which law enforcement can broadcast regional or statewide alerts for missing seniors and/or other adults with Alzheimer’s or other cognitive disorders. Times reporter Emily Nipps says that some folks wonder if the Silver Alert program is worth our time & effort, so she [...]
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.
In St. Pete, selling from a pushcart after 9pm or before 7am violates a city ordinance. Sure sounds like a silly rule. But until the rule is changed, we can’t sell our t-shirts from a pushcart at night. Unless the St. Pete Times was in charge. A recent editorial says that if an ordinance is silly, [...]
In the case of child abuse and neglect, instead of sensationalizing how terrible boyfriends are, the focus ought to be on helping parents understand what it means to be a parent.
