By Jim Bleyer A pair of Florida House candidates with threadbare resumés are bombarding Tampa Bay voters with transparently fraudulent claims about their opponents. The actions by Traci Koster and Linda Chaney are widely viewed as last-ditch attempts to resurrect their failing campaigns. Polls in …
By Jim Bleyer When incumbent State Representative Jamie Grant resigned Aug. 11 to accept a position as Florida’s chief information officer, local Republican leaders in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties scrambled to identify a replacement candidate to defend the District 64 seat against a familiar and formidable Democratic challenger, Jessica Harrington. …
by E. Eugene Webb PhD, from Bay Post Internet You’ve probably noticed a lot of ads on TV, in the newspaper and even in the mail about coming to the hospital emergency room. All the ads are quick to point out if you are experiencing a serious …
By Jim Bleyer Molly Demeulenaere, who spent a rocky tenure as CEO of the Museum of Science and Industry, is now in Massachusetts still promoting the arts. She is billed as a Development Consultant at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Inc., a ferry ride from Boston. …
By Tom Rask, from Tampa Bay Guardian Tampa International Airport (TPA) violated its own hiring procedure in at least two ways when it hired former Bay News 9 news anchor Veronica Cintron for $223,000 per year. Cintron’s husband is Preston Rudie, founder and CEO of Catalyst Communications Group. …
By Tom Rask, from the Tampa Bay Guardian IT WAS announced last Monday that Tim Nickens, long time Editor of Editorials at the Tampa Bay Times, is retiring this spring. That claim of “retirement” might have been believable if the Times had not announced a 10% “temporary” pay …
By Tom Rask, from the Tampa Bay Guardian During a panel discussion yesterday, All For Transportation (AFT) President Tyler Hudson claimed that voters wanted only “some modicum of oversight” for the $16 billion sales tax increase he helped pass in Hillsborough County in 2018. The Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of …
By Jim Bleyer The continuing saga of the Tampa Bay Times’ lack of ethics inveigled its way into a St. Petersburg City Council race when the paper jettisoned its equal time rule to protect its unprincipled relationship with a local political operative. That operative, Barry Edwards, is a member …
By Jim Bleyer It may be the prohibitive favorite (again) to win professional hockey’s coveted Stanley Cup but the 2019-20 edition of the Tampa Bay Lightning are set up for more failure and heartbreak when its season kicks off Thursday. Thanks to former General Manager Steve Yzerman, …
By Jim Bleyer If you are a political candidate vowing to execute the agenda of the Tampa Bay Times, you can safely count on the support of the already discredited, nearly bankrupt daily. In fact, despite any shady dealings, arrests, and the spewing of inflammatory anti-minority rhetoric, your …
