Guest column by Shawn Harrison
The Florida Legislature is in session. The Florida Constitution requires the state legislature to meet once per year for 60 days. The only constitutional requirement each year is the passage of a state budget. Everything else that happens is just gravy, or spoiled milk, depending upon your viewpoint.Continue reading
Reminiscing with Gary Nager
For most people, the ribbon cutting held on February 27 may have been little or nothing more than just a new way to get from New Tampa Blvd. in West Meadows to Commerce Park Blvd. in Tampa Palms âNorth.â But, for me, it was an almost surreal, truly life-changing event. Why?âContinue reading
By Matt Wiley
After more than a decade of operating its golf course while unable to make payments on the bonds that first built it, the Heritage Isles Community Development District (CDD) has settled much of its looming debt with its creditors and is looking toward the future.Continue reading
By Matt Wiley
While it looked hopeful in November, when Pasco County officials reached out to the City of Tampa and the developers of K-Bar Ranch about connecting the city and Pasco County through Kinnan St. in New Tampa and Mansfield Blvd. in Wesley Chapel, negotiations once again have come to a standstill.Continue reading
An editorial by Gary Nager
Since the day a couple of months ago when I found out that the âcompletionâ of the widening of Segment A of Bruce B. Downs (BBD)âBlvd. doesnât mean we now have four lanes available in both directions between Pebble Creek Dr. and Palm Springs Blvd. in Tampa Palms, Iâhave been waiting for it:âthe inevitable bottlenecks snarling traffic for an hour or more on New Tampaâs primary arterial roadway.Continue reading