Music Tampa Bay is taking a holiday from adding new songs to the music stream until after the first of the new year. More than 2 dozen traditional and original Christmas season songs by local artists continue all this week, with the 2nd annual year-end review of the best all original music by Tampa Bay artists [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The February 9 issue of The New Yorker spotlights the Tampa Bay area as “ground zero of the foreclosure crisis,” and exposes us nationally as a prime example of the political and corporate greed and utter wrongheadedness that has ruined America’s economy and laid waste to Florida. In “The Ponzi State, Florida’s Foreclosure Disaster,” George Packer [...]
Sunday’s editorial by Rosemary Goudreau says we should “engage citizens in a discussion” about growth, but she doesn’t want those pesky citizens actually VOTING on their Comprehensive Plan, because that “could grind growth to a halt and destroy jobs.” Never has the time been better to engage citizens in a discussion about how the region should [...]
That public meeting to discuss the Hillsborough County Growth Plan is tonight, and once again the Tribune is begging commissioners to have a serious debate on the proposals, what they mean, and your county’s future. We’ll see what happens.
Mariella Smith reports that the Hillsborough County BOCC has decided to figure out what it is that they did a couple weeks ago. You might remember that they killed a proposal (smart growth, walkable communities, etc.) created by citizens. That they killed it is not the outrageous part. But they killed it without any [...]
