Peter SchorschMarch 5, 2020
8min341
TGH brought together community leaders to discuss the epidemic's impact on Tampa Bay.
Tag: Brian Dugan
Peter SchorschMarch 5, 2020
Janelle Irwin TaylorJuly 1, 2019
5min391
"We fought hard this legislative session to make sure that we change this behavior.”
Janelle Irwin TaylorMay 22, 2019
7min366
“I have heard hundreds of reasons why people don’t want to evacuate."
Mitch PerryMarch 6, 2018
5min697
Two community activists got into a verbal altercation Tuesday with Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan, which ended with the chief escorting the pair out of the TPD’s downtown headquarters. Sadie Dean and Angel D’Angelo are with the social justice group Restorative Justice Coalition. They claim to have been granted a meeting with the chief Tuesday to […]
Mitch PerryFebruary 7, 2018
9min587
Speaking to a Tampa audience about the opioid crisis, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said those reaching for such drugs should “switch to aspirin.” “I am operating on the assumption that this country prescribes too many opioids,” the nation’s top cop said Wednesday during a visit to the downtown Tampa office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle […]
Mitch PerryDecember 27, 2017
21min242
While most of the country considered 2017 an electoral “off-year,” that wasn’t the case in the Tampa Bay region, thanks to the St. Petersburg municipal elections. Here’s this reporter’s list of the top ten political news stories of the year: 10. — Bob Buckhorn decides not to run for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. For years, the […]
Mitch PerryDecember 13, 2017
6min327
Every day of the year, Americans are shot to death by either current or former domestic partners. From 2012 to 2017, Hillsborough County experienced 61 domestic violence homicides, with over 200 such deaths in Florida last year alone. Citing those statistics, Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren vowed Wednesday to take action, saying he refused to […]
Mitch PerryDecember 6, 2017
6min370
Nearly three months after Hillsborough County Administrator Mike Merrill and Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn engaged in a verbal skirmish about who had the power to call for an emergency curfew in Tampa, County Commissioners would like local state legislators to weigh in. The issue goes back to the days leading up the arrival of Hurricane Irma […]
Mitch PerryNovember 28, 2017
3min227
Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan is “optimistic” a man with a gun at a McDonald’s restaurant in Ybor City Tuesday afternoon could be linked to four recent killings in Seminole Heights. Dugan said his agency received a tip at 2:45 p.m. of a man was brandishing a gun at the McDonald’s on E. 13th Avenue. The […]
Mitch PerryNovember 17, 2017
6min215
With four unresolved murders in the past six weeks, tensions in Southeast Seminole Heights have never been higher. Among some black residents, there’s even more anxiety, with many complaining about increased surveillance in the community — and that was before the Tampa Police Department announced earlier this week that the chief suspect is a black […]