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, [...]
After Tampa Police initially gave up on trying to find the driver of a car involved in a hit and run in Hyde Park, they have now decided that perhaps they might could work a little harder, and maybe come up with proof of who was driving: “When this case was reviewed by the supervisors it [...]
Another thing to worry about. For two years, Tarpon Springs cops have been ticketing cars for parking in valid parking spots. In a dispute between business owners, one of them put up fake ‘no parking’ signs, and then may have called cops on the other business owners’ customers. A couple years ago, developer Mike Bronson admitted [...]
Did you hear about this one? In Tuesday’s print edition, the St. Pete Times says a Tampa hit-and-run death stymies police: Three months ago, a driver in an SUV killed a woman crossing a South Tampa street and fled. It happened Feb. 8, at 8:27 p.m. on a Sunday. Melissa Sjostrom, 33 and homeless, was limping across Hyde [...]
April 24 was “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.” At the Franklin Correctional Institution, Sgt. Walter Schmidt thought it would be a good idea to show the kids how handheld stun guns are used at the prison. After getting permission from the kids’ parents, Schmidt zapped the kids with 50,000 volts of electricity. The children, [...]
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 [...]
You remember that huge mess on Interstate 4 just over a year ago. Seventy vehicles were involved in a string of early morning crashes, where fog and smoke from a nearby controlled burn had grown thick on the highway. The FHP released a report that says 100 cars passed through there that day, and somehow, 30 [...]
