Janelle Irwin TaylorOctober 1, 2021
9min1926
The email raises several issues Rask highlighted in 2014.
Tag: Greenlight Pinellas
Janelle Irwin TaylorOctober 1, 2021Janelle Irwin TaylorJuly 9, 2019
6min333
"Welch has a long track record of leadership in his community."
Janelle Irwin TaylorApril 24, 2019
9min371
The agency received “unprecedented” opposition to its plan.
Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 18, 2019
10min233
The leaders look to citizens for transit and express uncertainty over a revived Rays deal.
Mitch PerryDecember 6, 2017
2min228
If you can’t beat ’em at the polls, perhaps you can take them down in the courtroom? That’s the philosophy of Pinellas County Tea Party activist Tom Rask, who is suing the Pinellas County Commission following last month’s vote to reauthorize the Penny for Pinellas sales tax. In a lawsuit filed Nov. 22, Rask claims […]
Mitch PerryOctober 11, 2017
5min349
St. Petersburg City Council hopeful Gina Driscoll doesn’t think much of the service offered by the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) to those needing transportation in the ‘Burg. “We need to look at the bus system that we already have because it’s broken, it doesn’t work for most of the people who have to use it,” […]
Mitch PerryOctober 10, 2016
2min370
The Tampa Bay Times isn’t the only local organization David Jolly didn’t receive an endorsement from this weekend in his race for re-election to his 13th Congressional District seat against Democrat Charlie Crist. The South Pinellas 912 Patriots has produced a voters guide for next month’s election, and the group’s list of candidates noticeably omits Jolly — one of only two local Republicans on next month’s ballot […]
Mitch PerrySeptember 6, 2016
4min635
Tucker/Hall, the Tampa-based public affairs firm, is suing the company’s former senior vice president, Tony Collins, for breach of contract and nonpayment of a promissory note. Collins worked at the PR firm — which, among other projects, was involved in the Greenlight Pinellas initiative — from 2001 to 2014, and had moved up in the company to […]
Mitch PerryMay 3, 2016
4min577
A couple of years after Hillsborough County voters overwhelmingly rejected a sales tax referendum on transportation, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn talked about getting Tallahassee lawmakers to back a measure that would allow big cities like Tampa to place their own tax referendums on the ballot. It received little support from the local delegation, and was never […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorFebruary 15, 2016
7min410
St. Pete wants to move its people around St. Pete over the roads. Earlier this month the city submitted an application for a $40 million federal grant with its big-ticket item focused on Aerial Cable Propelled Transit. Or Gondolas. It’s an almost Jetsonian vision invoking images of people floating along in bubbles. Though, in St. […]