By Sharon Calvert, Eye on Tampa Bay Hillsborough County voters should know what they’re voting on before they vote. The Tampa Bay Times begins a recent editorial about the Florida Supreme Court striking down Amendment 8 from the November ballot (emphasis mine): “Voters should know what they’re voting on, which …
By Jim Bleyer When State Rep. Janet Cruz jumped into a Florida Senate race against incumbent Republican Dana Young, she told Tampa voters she was motivated to run because of the February school shootings in Parkland. The term-limited House minority leader had previously filed to run for a seat …
By Tom Rask, Tampa Bay Guardian Majority voter support for the proposed 14 percent hike in the Hillsborough County sales tax, already a dim possibility, has been dealt another blow from an unlikely source. If the statutorily required audit of the government agencies receiving the tax windfall was supposed …
By Sharon Calvert, from Eye on Tampa Bay It should come as no surprise that voters and taxpayers are not funding promotion of the grossly misnamed All for Transportation (AFT) 30-year 14% rail tax hike. The Tampa Bay Partnership, leader of the local rail cartel, has been complicit with …
By Jim Bleyer Yayoi Kusama’s spectacular “Infinity Mirrors” exhibition enters the final stage of its two-year North American tour de force November 18 at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art and demand for tickets to the multi-media show is soaring. Dubbed by many as the art world’s “Hamilton”, the exhibition …
By Jim Bleyer The first order of business for Ron DeSantis and Andrew Gillum: mending fences. With Jeanette Nuñez and Chris King, the gubernatorial hopefuls chose solid, if not bold, imaginative picks for their running mates last week. But they face monumental missionary work after bitter, divisive primaries. Public …
By Tom Rask, Tampa Bay Guardian Yesterday morning, a state agency told the Guardian that they did not have an audit report that was due for delivery to them five days earlier. Yet that same afternoon, the Tampa Bay Times obtained a copy of the report and published an article …
By Jim Bleyer The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills is in the fight of its operational life in the wake of 12 resident deaths after Hurricane Irma in 2017. Its fate rests in the hands of an administrative law judge who must decide if the facility’s license and Medicaid …
By Jim Davison, Contributor The 1% Jeff Vinik-inspired sales tax increase propaganda machine is up and running. The misinformation campaign has started. The director of the Hillsborough County MPO, Beth Alden, told the Tampa City Council what the 1% sales tax would pay for in the MPO …
By Sharon Calvert, from Eye on Tampa Bay The Tampa Bay Times needs an intervention. The Times has reported more than 40 Hillsborough County schools desperately need new air conditioners. They recently published this article about the A/C issue, hot classrooms, and mold in schools. When Plant High School opened …
