Fads come and go (that’s why they’re called fads; latin for fade. No? Never mind) but excellence sustains. That’s why they can come up with newer and wackier ideas about what’s good to stick in a deep fryer, but they will never, ever supplant the standard bearer… the corn dog. It’s not known exactly who invented [...]
Quote of the Week: “It was like being married to a nymphomaniac,” Weaver said. “The first two weeks were great. Then all hell broke loose.” You’ll remember that Charlie Crist signed a bill to encourage all of us to get a bulldozer and start building stuff nearly anywhere in Florida. As you might imagine, developers such as Ron [...]
Think a high speed train between Tampa, Orlando and Miami is a good idea? If so, you may want to check out ConnectUs. ConnectUs was founded by Ed Turanchik as a grassroots organization in collaboration with the leadership of the Central Florida Partnership, Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, Tampa Downtown Partnership, and Tampa Bay Partnership. The plan [...]
Governor Charlie Crist was talking tough, and not mincing words. “It’s every single Floridian taking on that personal responsibility to be prepared, to be ready for another hurricane season.” Crist was in front of all the cameras when he showed up at The Home Depot to give us a stern lecture on the first day of hurricane [...]
Today, Tampa takes another step on the journey to the Big Time! Or not. Or somewhere in between. Depending on whom you ask. Today, is the official Grand Opening of Tampa’s IKEA store. There has been and continues to be, much debate on how big a deal this really is, with seemingly everybody having something to say. Personally, I think it’s [...]
It’s hard to imagine a worse place to build houses than smack in the middle of an AQUATIC preserve. Here’s this breathtakingly beautiful, skinny little spit (only 300 feet wide!) running out into the middle of the Little Manatee River [see aerial image] — full of pines, palms, mangroves and wildlife [see photos] — so naturally [...]
Two months ago, Hillsborough County Commission Chairman Ken Hagan proposed an economic stimulus task force to study ways to create new jobs and make the county more competitive. Hagan said that he wanted to get a “fresh set of eyes and ideas” working on the problem. The task force was beginning to come together last month, [...]
Florida State Legislators (just like some Hillsborough County Commissioners) are working to “streamline” — i.e. deregulate — the development industry. State lawmakers want to make it cheaper & easier for developers to build more subdivisions and strip malls, apparently ignorant of the widely reported fact that Florida has 300,000 vacant homes for sale — a [...]
Having seen the Tampa area featured in The New Yorker as America’s prime example of greedy, wrongheaded leadership driving us off the cliff of economic disaster, let’s take a look at how our county commissioners propose to lead us out of this mess shown in this New Yorker video as “ground zero of the foreclosure [...]
