Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn Visits The New Tampa Rotary Club

By Sean Bowes

Just after sunrise at the Tampa Palms Golf & Country Club, a jet-black, limo-tinted GMC Yukon Denali pulled into the parking lot. It wouldn’t have looked terribly out of place at the upscale country club — with its spotless paint and chrome wheels — if it wasn’t for the loud grumbling that shakes the ground everywhere it goes.Continue reading

‘School’s Out’ As City Council Shuts Down Proposed Charter School

By Sean Bowes

After months of uncertainty, concern and fear, residents of West Meadows and Richmond Place are resting a little easier, because for now, a proposed school will not be built on Highwoods Preserve Pkwy. After more than four hours of listening to traffic experts, concerned parents, attorneys and home owners at their meeting on January 12, six of the seven Tampa City Council members (one was absent) agreed that a new charter school was not in New Tampa’s best interest.Continue reading