It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around Tampa Bay, with some neighborhoods lit up like, well… Christmas trees. And if your neighbor’s icicle lights and giant inflatable snowmen aren’t enough for you, you can check out Wild Wonderland at Lowry Park Zoo. Heck, the zoo will even [...]
The unemployment rate surged half a percentage point in the Tampa Bay area in November, increasing the jobless rate to 12.3 percent.
That’s the highest rate among Florida’s major metropolitan areas.
Meanwhile, the state’s unemployment rate continued to rise as well, although the U.S. rate fell slightly last month.
New… [...]
Florida unemployment in November rocketed up to 11.5 percent, representing more than 1 million jobless out of a statewide labor force of 9.2 million.
The numbers released this morning were even more startling for the Tampa Bay area, which jumped from a revised 11.8 percent in [...]
Members of the Tampa Bay Young Republicans Club on Wednesday night were lamenting how personal the split between supporters of Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist in their U.S. Senate race have become.
"It's sad," said young GOP-er Dywan Washington, a Rubio backer. Long-time acquaintances from the two camps have stopped [...]
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In searching the web for photos of the Tampa Bay area, I ran across a handful [...]
Note: As always, some of these links will magically make noises come out of your speakers – prepare accordingly. If there is no link for an artist, it only means we couldn’t find it.
Music Tampa Bay programming has shifted into a holiday mode, now featuring Songs of the Season [...]
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In addition to the many visitors here to see family and friends over the holidays, you will also see thousands turn out for the NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship.
The final four teams include Penn State Nittany Lions [...]
The USF Bulls football team has finished the regular season 7-5 and will celebrate (?) the mediocre season with something called the International Bowl in Toronto, Canada. Congratulations?
In a rebuilding season, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers thus far has so many losses, you could pick [...]
The temperature is dropping here in the Tampa Bay area, so you may soon be seeing more of the beautiful Palmetto Bug.
Newcomers to the area (Yankees) call them Cockroaches, and rightly so, because it is also known as the American cockroach. But the Palmetto Bug [...]
Adam Smith notest that we've struggled lately to get a clear answer from Marco Rubio on whether as governor he would have accepted money from the federal stimulus package about which he is so critical. Keith Cate on Tampa Bay's NBC affiliate got a clearer answer:
"Ultimately," Rubio said. "I would have'" [...]
We've struggled lately to get a clear answer from Marco Rubio on whether as governor he would have accepted money from the federal stimulus package about which he is so critical. Keith Cate on Tampa Bay's NBC affiliate got a clearer answer:
"Ultimately I would have accepted those portions [...]
The final vote was 27-10, despite the fiery rhetoric of the past few days.
Here are how Tampa Bay senators voted:
Yes:
Fasano, R-New Port Richey
Jones, R-Seminole
Crist, R-Tampa
No:
Joyner, D-Tampa
Storms, R-Valrico
Dockery, R-Lakeland
Not Voting:
Justice, D-St. Petersburg*
* Justice paired his no vote [...]
Add some Tampa Bay area officials to the list of people seeking to influence how SunRail legislation turns out.
Clearwater Mayor Frank Hibbard, vice chairman of the Tampa Bay Regional Transportation Authority, said he'll be lobbying on the bill next week. While agency officials informally support the bill, he'll also [...]
TALLAHASSEE — A bitter and personal war of words is dominating the search for a new U.S. Attorney for Florida's Middle District, which stretches across 34 counties, including the Tampa Bay area.
At the center of the battle is veteran Jacksonville prosecutor Harry Shorstein, one of three nominees submitted to President [...]
Ruth's List, a group with a mission to get Democratic, pro-choice women elected in Florida, has set its sights on the Tampa Bay area. Chairwoman Ellis Robinson has made 10 trips from her home in Sanibel to the Tampa area since June for fundraising events and candidate training sessions. Why [...]
In the Tampa Bay area, more than 28,000 people filed bankruptcy over the year between Oct.1, 2008 and Sept. 1, 2009. That’s a 46% increase over the previous fiscal year, and a new record.
The Orlando division, the Jacksonville division, and the Tampa division make up [...]
Tampa Bay area political parties are scaling back in these tough times — except the Pinellas County Republican Party. There, under new chairman J.J. Beyrouti, spending is up even as donations are down. The local party spent $103,000 the first nine months of this year, a 59 percent spike over [...]
She's not an official candidate for state attorney general, but Pam Bondi gave a sense of what she might be like on the campaign trail at a meeting of the Tampa Bay Young Republicans Tuesday night. She spoke to about 20 people -- including state house candidates Irene Guy and [...]
She's not an official candidate for state attorney general, but Pam Bondi gave a sense of what she might be like on the campaign trail at a meeting of the Tampa Bay Young Republicans Tuesday night. She spoke to about 20 people -- including state house candidates Irene Guy and [...]
Former state House Speaker Jon Mills and Linda Kobert, an Orlando parent and education activist, appeared on Political Connections Sunday to discuss their lawsuit alleging that the state is vioilating its Constitutional duty to provide "high quality" education to students. The full interview can be seen in Tampa Bay on Ch. [...]
