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 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 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 …
By Sharon Calvert, from Eye on Tampa Bay Five downtown Tampa special interests contributed $150,000 each to fund the “All for Transportation” (AFT) transit tax hike petition effort, literally buying their way onto the November ballot in Hillsborough County. The $750,000 was used to fast track a proposed massive …
By Jim Bleyer Bristol, FL—Declaring Florida’s Liberty County as sleepy surely is an understatement. Comatose would be a more accurate description of this rural outpost 50 miles west of Tallahassee. The Apalachicola National Forest provides a canopy of longleaf pine for fully half of Florida’s least populous county. Liberty …
By Jim Bleyer As far as we can determine, Hogan’s Heroes character Sgt. Schultz did not hold a law degree nor was he entrusted with protecting the public purse. But Janet Tashner, the state Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability’s General Counsel, apparently needs those qualifications for the …
By Dr. Jim Davison, from Eye on Tampa Bay Jeff Vinik, the former Boston-based hedge fund manager that reinvented himself in Tampa, and his cronies have bought their way onto the November ballot by spending more than a half million dollars. The Vinik referendum, if passed, would increase the …
By Sharon Calvert, from Eye on Tampa Bay The Vinik $15-18 Billion transit tax hike and the Chuck Sykes/District Rays Candidate Hagan billion dollar stadium have officially combined into one collaborative effort. The latest campaign filing found on the SOE website of Vinik’s transit tax hike All For Transportation (AFT) …
By Jim Bleyer A group of nationally recognized transportation experts Saturday lambasted a Hillsborough County special interest referendum calling for a one percent sales tax increase to finance a mishmosh of transit options including an obsolete light rail system. Four panel discussions with ten speakers were featured at a …
