By Jim Bleyer Twitter? Check. Facebook? Check. Special website? Check. Electronic media? Check. Graphics and imagery? Check. Any and all means of messaging to promote Tampa-centric transit plans including light rail? Check. The federally-funded Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization hatched such a comprehensive propaganda plan in anticipation of the …
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 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 An ordinarily innocuous St. Petersburg City Council race has roiled local politics and become a key bellwether as to who will be the next mayor of Florida’s fifth largest city. The race to succeed term-limited Rick Kriseman as St. Petersburg mayor is two years away but political …
By Sharon Calvert, from Eye on Tampa Bay Since the legal appeals were filed in the All for Transportation/Hillsborough County tax litigation, the Florida House and Florida Senate have filed amicus curiae briefs with the Florida Supreme Court requesting the Court to strike the entire All for Transportation charter …
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 …
By Jim Bleyer Horse racing fatalities this year at Santa Anita’s fabled Southern California track have put the Sport of Kings under the scrutiny of politicians, animal rights activists, the media, and the thoroughbred racing industry itself. Thirty horses died in racing or training since Christmas at Santa …
2019 Haskell Invitational, Monmouth Park’s premiere event, was witnessed by sparser-than-usual crowd. By Clocker Vandalay The battle between animal rights activists and the horse racing industry over whether the sport is inhumane intensified this weekend. If you are keeping score at home, chalk up a major victory …
By Sharon Calvert, from Eye on Tampa Bay As we posted previously, Judge Rex Barbas gutted the illegal All for Transportation (AFT) tax hike charter amendment, tossing all of AFT’s illegal spending appropriations, prohibitions on funding new roads and other regulations it tried to force Hillsborough County …
