Would you like to become more involved in your neighborhood? Hillsborough County can help. Hillsborough County’s Office of Neighborhood Relations is gearing up for the 7th Annual Hillsborough County Neighborhood Conference. The one-day conference is scheduled for March 27, 2010, from 8am to 2:30, and features a variety of educational workshops for homeowners and neighborhood leaders. The goal [...]
Looks like Hillsborough County’s Budgeting Department has jumped into social media: Everybody leads busy lives these days, and it can be difficult to fit in time to attend a County Budget Public Hearing. That’s why, this year, we’ve added even more ways to comment on the Budget and to keep up with County Budget discussions. [...]
Your water department: Thank you for conserving, but now we have to charge you more.
Shortly after Florida’s State Fraternal Order of Police endorsed Brian Blair in the race for State House District 47, Peter Schorsch of Saint Petersblog 2.0 brought up Blair’s arrest in a domestic dispute. Never mind that the charges were dropped when it turned out that his kids were being less than truthful with police. I would really [...]
Tampa International Airport Executive Director Louis Miller cringed at questions about international flights, didn't care to converse with board members about an office building, bypassed variance boards in zoning, and violated sunshine laws. Miller has been doing whatever he wanted for fourteen years, completely avoiding questions from anyone. And now you expect him to tell us why he's leaving? Good luck with that.
Looking for something unusual this weekend? You may want to consider the 17th Annual Weeki Wachee Swamp Fest. Yeah, I have no idea, but it sounds like an excellent opportunity for people watching… Entertainment is scheduled from 10am to 4 pm both Saturday & Sunday, March 5 & 6, and there will be lots of crazy [...]
Speaking of newspaper litter… On Thursday mornings, we used to find the “community” edition of the Tampa Tribune at the bottom of our driveway. We didn’t ask for it, it just showed up. The small tab with what newspaper journalists call “chicken dinner news” was not really given to you out of concern for community, but [...]
Newspapers are good at "do as I say, not as I do."
An unincorporated area, Westchase is in northwest Hillsborough County, smack in the middle of Town ‘n’ Country, Oldsmar, and Citrus Park. Developed out of scrubland in 1991, it has virtually no history, and it can be assumed that the name was just something a (not very creative) marketer came up with. Here are parts of [...]
