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 Jim Bleyer First, the bad news. Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, the area’s much beloved alternative weekly, was bought out by Euclid Media Group. Known as EMG, it owns a portfolio of nine such city publications including the Orlando Weekly. EMG has shown a penchant for marginalizing and, in …
By Jim Bleyer The Poynter Institute for Media Studies/Tampa Bay Times finally racked up its only victory of 2017 and it was most lopsided: Florida Loser of the Year. Ethically. Financially. Politically. Whoever garnered second place trailed by light years. The contest made FDR-Hoover look like a photo finish. …
By Jim Bleyer A land deal that would cost Hillsborough County taxpayers an estimated $600 million to enrich corporate interests, at least one public official, and Tampa Bay Times investors was suddenly unveiled yesterday to an unsuspecting public. It’s an unraveling plot that is worthy of the duplicity, …
By Jim Bleyer The Tampa Bay Times, without a shred of dignity, ethics, or conscience, continues to bombard the public about the Go Hillsborough transit plan with incomplete, inconsistent, and wildly inaccurate information. It is part of a concerted propaganda effort to confuse voters into taxing themselves for …
