Renzo DowneyJune 18, 2021
6min941
The three officers were killed in the line of duty in the area between January and March.
Tag: Tampa Bay area
Renzo DowneyJune 18, 2021
Janelle Irwin TaylorMarch 31, 2020
4min1099
The 813 area code is expected to run out of numbers in 2022.
Peter SchorschJanuary 22, 2018
48min653
— Tampa Bay ranks third statewide in job creation — Tampa Bay added 28,000 new private-sector jobs in the last year, the third-highest number of jobs among all Florida metro areas. In a statement this week from Gov. Rick Scott, Tampa Bay’s unemployment rate had dropped to 3.4 percent, down 1.1 percentage points from the same […]
Joe HendersonSeptember 27, 2017
4min284
The news that Tampa and St. Petersburg will work together to attract the much-sought new Amazon headquarters is exactly what outsiders have been saying for decades this area needs to do. This goes back to when the squabbling sibling cities submitted separate proposals to attract a Major League Baseball team. Baseball bosses rolled their eyes […]
Anne LindbergMay 9, 2016
4min337
A six-county agency has taken the first step to trying a different approach to help needy Tampa Bay neighborhoods. The Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council unanimously voted Monday to have staff members discuss strategies with a representative of the Rutgers University Business School and its Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development. It is unclear […]
Ryan RayMay 4, 2016
3min350
Many red state politicians — and even POLITICO co-founder Jim VandeHei in a recent op-ed — often talk of a “real America,” a nation apart from the latte liberal denizens of our urban, coastal cities. But new research has found one of the most “normal” cities in America is right here in Florida — the greater Tampa Bay […]
Peter SchorschJanuary 5, 20158min232
A surefire way for a player to enter the Baseball Hall of Fame is to bat .400 or better in a season, although no one has done so since Ted Williams in 1941. Still, if you get a hit every two times out of five in professional baseball, you will be more than an All-Star, […]
Guest AuthorNovember 3, 20135min192
Ask residents of the Tampa Bay area about transportation, and you’ll likely hear some similar themes. The traffic here is terrible! When is light rail coming? When do we vote on the Greenlight Pinellas plan? You should forget what you know — or think you know — about transportation and the Tampa Bay region. The […]