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Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 10, 2018

The St. Petersburg City Council will consider a conditional ban on plastic straws and single-use plastic foam containers. The council will take up the proposed ban at its meeting Thursday. The ordinance would regulate straws in all food establishments citywide and ban polystyrene to-go containers in establishments on city-owned property or rights of way. The […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 5, 2018

Hillsborough County now has a funding framework in place to fund half of a new baseball stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays. However, the team has yet to say whether or not they are willing to play ball. The plan would leverage private investment to avoid taxpayer subsidies. If the team rejects the deal, there […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 5, 2018

Hillsborough County is moving forward with plans to appoint four members to the transportation sales tax oversight committee despite a lawsuit questioning the validity of the new charter amendment voters approved in November. The commission voted Wednesday to begin exploring options for appointees including advertising the positions broadly online and in the media and allowing […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 5, 2018

Trustees at the University of South Florida approved the search requirements Tuesday for a new system president to replace Judy Genshaft who is retiring July 1. The board approved qualifications to seek a new university leader with a robust academic background, a feature requested from students and faculty since Genshaft announced her retirement earlier this […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 5, 2018

Hillsborough County is moving forward with plans to bring electric scooters to the county. Hillsborough County Commissioners voted to have county attorneys work with staff from the electric scooter company Bird on how and where to implement service. Electric scooters are an emerging micro-mobility transit solution aimed at providing first mile/last mile solutions to transit […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 4, 2018

Florida Polytechnic University is trying to tackle drowsy and distracted driving in its latest research, the school announced Tuesday. New research seeks to detect and prevent the two road dangers, which represent one of the main causes of traffic fatalities. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Kanwal Gagneja is heading the effort. She and her team […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 4, 2018

Hillsborough County Commissioner Stacy White has filed a lawsuit against Hillsborough County, all three cities within the county, the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority and several county constitutional offices – all of which will receive a portion of the revenue created by the new one percent transportation and transit sales surtax taking effect next month. […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 4, 2018

During its final meeting of 2018 Tuesday, the University of South Florida Board of Trustees outlined progress on and future steps for consolidating its three campuses — St. Petersburg, Sarasota/Manatee and Tampa — into one single accreditation. The three campuses currently work under separate accreditation, but the state passed a plan to integrate them earlier […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 4, 2018

The All For Transportation campaign is standing by its referendum charter language that voters approved last month raising sales tax 1 percent to fund transit and transportation improvements after news of a potential lawsuit emerged this week. Hillsborough County Commissioner Stacy White told WTSP News Channel 10 he was planning to file a suit blocking […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 3, 2018

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are calling on Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to reconsider changes to the federal Title IX program that protects students from discrimination, including sexual misconduct, harassment and assault. A group of 77 House Democrats including Tampa’s Kathy Castor penned a letter to DeVos calling her latest proposal scaling back […]

Janelle Irwin Taylor

St. Petersburg considering ban on plastic foam containers, plastic straws

Ybor City Rays stadium deal has a funding plan, but it might not be enough

Hillsborough County moves forward with transportation tax implementation despite lawsuit

Judy Genshaft’s successor at USF to be an academic

Hillsborough County eyes electric scooters

Florida Polytechnic University researchers are using tech to reduce distracted driving

Stacy White lawsuit calls All For Transportation unlawful, asks for it to be scrapped

Kate Tiedemann College of Business likely protected in USF consolidation

All For Transportation volunteers not deterred by lawsuit threat

Congressional Democrats blast Betsy DeVos over anti-victim sexual abuse policy