With a hat tip to Tampa Rail, according to today’s Tampa Tribune, there seems to be a more formal effort to include light rail in the long range plans for our community. It doesn’t yet mean the system will be … Continue reading
Tim Fasano, cab driver and blogger of Tampa Taxi Shots fame, often talks about taxi-business issues on his blog. Because of this, he has become an unofficial leader of the cab community. If you have time, add his blog to … Continue reading
The Florida Legislature meets tomorrow to elect its new leaders: Senate President Ken Pruitt and House Speaker Marco Rubio. Both are good men and will be excellent leaders. This post, however, is about an idea broached by Speaker Rubio: moving … Continue reading
Sorry if we’re a little late on this, as Sticks of Fire and Seminole Heights have both posted about today’s news. Fifty-two people have applied for the City Council vacancies created when Kevin White and Rose Ferlita ran for county … Continue reading
The blogosphere is a-titter with posts about automated phone calls. It appears that someone – allegedly the NRCC – was harassing voters with automated calls that re-dialed if the listener didn’t hang on the phone long enough. There are other … Continue reading
One of the major policy initiatives of soon-to-be-Speaker Nancy Pelosi is raising the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 per hour. This would set the federal wage law temporarily higher than Florida’s current minimum wage, $6.67 per hour for 2006. … Continue reading
Vince Williams at OpEdNews.com still believes Florida Governor Jeb Bush will run for President. Ok, Jeb proclaimed he wasn’t going to run for President in 2008. So, let’s get this one out of the way right up front: since when … Continue reading
Well, almost quiet. Yesterday, we posted our thoughts about the selection of Mel Martinez as Chairman of the Republican National Committee. We are concerned that it may not have been the best selection. Apparently, so do a lot of other … Continue reading
The Associated Press and other news sources are reporting that Florida Senator Mel Martinez will take over as the Republican National Chairman from Ken Mehlman in January. Martinez will remain a Senator, and serve as a public figurehead. Florida Sen. … Continue reading
Okay, I am taking a moment to post on something other than politics… Okay, it’s shameless self-promotion… The 2006 Weblog Awards are not accepting nominations. They aren’t as impressive as Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay awards, but nominations couldn’t … Continue reading