Tampa’s Mary Mulhern Calls Community Gardening Summit

Tampa City Councilwoman Mary Mulhern has an itch for a little civic green-thumbing. Mulhern has organized a community meeting for the hundreds of people she says have contacted her since she raised the idea of the city doing more community gardening.........more

Even In Florida, Homeless People Freeze To Death

A homeless man who spent the coldest night in six years wrapped in black garbage bags and huddled in a tent froze to death in Pompano Beach.........more

Tampa Rapist Wayne Tompkins

A rapist convicted of murdering his girlfriend's teenage daughter 26 years ago is scheduled to be executed Wednesday night if no judges agree to reconsider his protestations of innocence........here

El Taconazo / The Taco Bus

When it comes to authentic Mexican food, I may have hit the goldmine moving to Tampa.........more

Friends Of Stogie

At Gaspars In Temple Terrace

Julio Osegueda Of Fort Myers, Florida

SEEKING HOMES FOR PAINTING

The Paint Your Heart Out Tampa Steering Committee is seeking qualified homes to paint for the upcoming 21st annual Paint Your Heart Out Tampa event scheduled for Saturday, April 25, 2009........more

Stop The Green Swamp Trash Dump

Imagine a picturesque rural area lined with orange orchards, fields and the Green Swamp. Now add a 220-foot pile of trash that occupies 1,069 acres in the middle of that scene. It makes for a very unpleasant picture. But that’s exactly the scene that Angelo’s Aggregate Materials wants to bring to rural Pasco County.........more

The Green Swamp basin

In The New Gang Of Four, Higginbotham Is The New Blair

Incredibly, four of the seven commissioners — Jim Norman, Ken Hagan, Kevin White & Al Higginbotham — see the solution to our housing glut as MORE housing. And all the new strip malls and office buildings sitting around vacant? Yep, they want to see MORE of that commercial stuff built, too. And fast..........more

Willet at St Pete Beach

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