Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 18, 2019
10min233
The leaders look to citizens for transit and express uncertainty over a revived Rays deal.
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Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 18, 2019
Joe HendersonDecember 20, 2018
6min555
The prevailing sentiment is that the door is slammed shut on a baseball stadium in Ybor City for the Tampa Bay Rays. You heard it on TV, radio and just about everywhere else throughout the region. After all, the Rays seemed to emphatically make that point when the team informed St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 18, 2018
4min613
The Tampa Bay Rays quest to move to Tampa is officially over … at least for now. The team submitted its “decision notice” to St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman Monday. “Please be advised that, as required … the Rays hereby notify the city the Rays will not attempt to negotiate the “new agreements” or prepare […]
Joe HendersonDecember 12, 2018
6min772
If the Tampa Bay Rays can’t make Ybor City work as the spot for a new stadium, there is an alternative that makes a lot of sense. Derby Lane could be the answer. The dog racing industry in Florida will be dead in about two years, thanks to Amendment 13, approved by 69 percent of […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 11, 2018
7min283
With the Ybor City stadium deal likely dead, St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman is ready and willing to again talk about keeping the Tampa Bay Rays in his city. “The memorandum of understanding we struck with the Tampa Bay Rays worked as intended. The organization was given three years to explore future stadium sites throughout […]
Joe HendersonDecember 11, 2018
6min286
What just happened with the Tampa Bay Rays stadium that was supposed to be built in Ybor City, except now there may not be enough money to make that happen? Well, take your pick of multiple options and there’s no way to say now whether you are definitively right or wrong. Does it open the […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 5, 2018
9min932
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 TaylorNovember 29, 2018
7min701
Veteran 10News reporter Noah Pransky is leaving his post at the Tampa Bay-area news station after the end of this year, he told Florida Politics Thursday. For a decade, Pransky has been doing political reporting and investigative work for the station, also called News Channel 10. Pransky said he hasn’t decided where his professional career […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorNovember 6, 2018
7min1138
Hillsborough County’s transportation referendum passed Tuesday night, with 57 percent of the vote. It’s a huge win for transportation and transit activists who have seen initiative after initiative fail locally at the ballot box. “We are humbled by tonight’s results, which confirm that Hillsborough County is ready to invest in a transportation plan that truly […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorOctober 24, 2018
4min302
Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays now officially own soccer’s Tampa Bay Rowdies, the Rays announced Wednesday. The Rays finalized the sale for an undisclosed amount after the 2018 United Soccer League season concluded. Rays leadership said the transition from previous owner Bill Edwards will begin immediately. Edwards announced at the beginning of the month he was selling the […]