Hillsborough County (and her wonderful taxpayers) will end up paying for Kevin White's indiscretions. Who's gonna fight it?
Brian Blair certainly isn't the greatest guy in the world, but try to use your head now and again, huh?
County Commissioner Ken Hagan is using the same tactic Buddy Johnson used to get his name out for the next election. He’s distributing campaign material made to look like public service announcements. See for yourself. Wayne Garcia writes, A curious piece of political literature has been hitting South Tampa homes over the past few days as [...]
Let me see if I got this right. The Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners distract our performance auditor with political witch hunts, and are now upset that he has been unable to do the job he is supposed to do? We in Hillsborough County created the office of performance auditor in 2002. The one-person shop [...]
The Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners voted to match any cost-saving measures that affect county employees. For instance, if Administrator Pat Bean recommends furloughs (unpaid time off), the BOCC will be subject to the same thing. So, if Bean recommends laying off 15% of county employees, then one commissioner is gone, right? Yeah, right.
It’s hard to imagine a worse place to build houses than smack in the middle of an AQUATIC preserve. Here’s this breathtakingly beautiful, skinny little spit (only 300 feet wide!) running out into the middle of the Little Manatee River [see aerial image] — full of pines, palms, mangroves and wildlife [see photos] — so naturally [...]
“I didn’t even know we had a bus. But I should be driving it.” According to Rose Ferlita’s (former campaign) website, she currently sits on the boards of both Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) and the Public Transportation Commission. She is also currently the Vice Chair for the Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Chair of the [...]
HTV is Hillsborough County’s cable TV channel that provides programming about County government and the services it provides. For the Black Heritage Celebration, HTV planned a half hour show about blacks in politics. As part of the show, producers wanted an interview with a black politician, and asked Joyce Russell, Hillsborough [...]
Having seen the Tampa area featured in The New Yorker as America’s prime example of greedy, wrongheaded leadership driving us off the cliff of economic disaster, let’s take a look at how our county commissioners propose to lead us out of this mess shown in this New Yorker video as “ground zero of the foreclosure [...]
