Category: Education
These Heartless Cowards Will Ask for Your Vote
If Only Florida’s Ruling Class Loved Public Education as Much as Tourism and Billionaires
Why Tampa Got Booted from Amazon’s Grovelfest—It’s Not What You Were Brainwashed to Believe

By Jim Bleyer Community leaders in 218 American cities woke up Friday wondering why the top executives at internet retailing giant Amazon failed to recognize their hometown’s unparalleled assets and bounty of virtues. Despite the announced winnowing of the field to 20 cities, the competition has always been about …
Gwen Graham and Adam Putnam: No Difference Except Party Label, Handlers
‘Bama, Tampa Offer Lesson for FL Dems: Andrew Gillum Would Be Huge Game Changer
Alex Harris Inspires Tampa Bay Youth through the Arts
Straz: Wrong leader for Tampa in 2019; 1959 maybe
Shady Vinik-Sundome Deal Hardly “Preeminent”
Sharpe Promotes Transit for Innovation Place

By Jim Bleyer Improved mass transit is the top priority of the 238 businesses that comprise Innovation Place, the economic district anchored by the University of South Florida, the organization’s Executive Director Mark Sharpe said Friday. Speaking at Cafe con Tampa’s weekly community forum, Sharpe conceded that Hillsborough County …