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 [...]
Three of Tampa’s seven districts are city-wide, and the other four districts are split (map). District 4 (South Tampa) and District 6 (West Tampa) each have over 83,000 residents, while District 5 (East Tampa) and District 7 (North Tampa and New Tampa) have over 91,000. Every four years, we redraw these districts to maintain near [...]
The Republican National Committee has narrowed its list of potential cities to host the 2012 Republican National Convention down to three final contenders. After being rejected twice before, Tampa has been selected as a finalist for the 2012 GOP Convention.
In the lead-up to Pat Bean’s annual evaluation, commissioner Mark Sharpe took the lead in pointing out the County Administrator’s poor record. The St. Pete Times mentions that both Rose Ferlita and Kevin Beckner had complaints on their written evaluations, too. But there are seven on the Hillsborough Board of County Commissioners. What did the other [...]
Hillsborough County commissioners voted 5-1 to retain County Administrator Pat Bean.
Quote of the Week: The perception of people out there – they think we suck. Public Service Commissioner Nancy Argenziano on the public’s view of the recent antics of the PSC dining and partying with executives of the very businesses they are supposed to regulate. Argenziano is right – we do think they suck.
With two candidates left on the ballot for St. Petersburg’s November election (Bill Foster and Kathleen Ford), we ask Sticks of Fire readers just which of these two candidates they’d vote for. Of course, unlike St. Pete residents ballots, we added the “None of the above” option and left a space for the undecideds… [poll id="35"] Vote, and [...]
Hillsborough County (and her wonderful taxpayers) will end up paying for Kevin White's indiscretions. Who's gonna fight it?
As you know, the Hillsborough County Public Transportation Commission (PTC) put the screws to a handful of entrepreneurs, and opened the door for one of their own to steal the idea. That’s right, the PTC is supposed to regulate taxicab service here in this great county of ours, but sometimes ends up simply putting money in [...]
