The Nielsen Company released its annual list of top media products for 2009. Just three scripted series cracked the top 10 shows of the year, with the rest divided between sports and editions of American Idol or Dancing With the Stars.......here
I want to be your next State Representative because the residents of District 60 deserve better government than they've gotten. We can do better, and with your help we will do better. I'm "Russ for US!" and I need your vote".......Russ Patterson
The Hillsborough Education Foundation will host a rally on Thursday to recognize the $100-million grant the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving to Hillsborough County Public Schools. The rally is scheduled to run from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Jefferson High School at 4401 Cypress Street........here
Community members and activists get together each year to sing Christmas favorites to the city's homeless, and students from Osceola High School have been caroling right beside them. The annual "Still No Room at the Inn" homeless stroll, which took place Friday, is just one act of goodwill for Osceola students, who are encouraged by English teacher
John Stewart to share in one of his passions: serving others.......here
Cries for justice and better working conditions for Florida's tomato workers came from more than 500 protesters Sunday during a two-mile march through Lakeland in a demonstration against Publix Super Markets Inc.......here
On Nov. 28, the Hillsborough County, Sheriff's Office called Dover-based Bingham On Site Sewers Inc. to the Silver Lane Mobile Home Park in Valrico. Luis Martinez, 2, had been missing almost 24 hours. A few volunteer searchers had discovered an 11-by-13-inch opening in the ground the night before. That opening was where the cap to the underground septic tank should have been.......here
There's quite a bit going on right now in Tampa Bay regarding the future of transportation in this region, so I wanted to make sure you were aware of a new tool TBARTA has created to give folks a new way to be a part of this important discussion. It's called the "Transportation Lounge" and can be found......here
If Buddy Johnson’s face is ever next to a word in Webster’s dictionary, you can count on that word being somewhere along the lines of “shameless”, “crook”, and “conniving”. Johnson, a 57-year-old Republican, was voted out of office last November after his stint as the Hillsborough County elections chief and Elections Supervisor came to an end in a sea of turmoil and uncertainty.......here