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With highways sure to be jammed by Memorial Day weekend traffic, here is a friendly warning: There will yahoos speeding in the left lane of the interstate with their eyes and fingers glued to the keyboard of a smart phone.
If Rob Turner had played porn tag with anyone besides an employee whom he later fired, he might have gotten by.
Before it was subdivided, gated and homogenized, this was a place of distinct neighborhoods with schools that reflected the people who lived there. Port Tampa's Robinson High School was such a place.
The Friendship TrailBridge is crumbling and unsafe and hasn't been open since late 2008, but it won't fall down by itself any time soon. Even if it did, the county was going to tear it down anyway.
Tougher standards on the FCAT writing test hurt scores, but dropping the bar for passing could hurt even more, columnist Joe Henderson writes.
The Marching 100 had a long road ahead to restore the cachet it had earned over the years, columnist Joe Henderson writes.
"Can it get any worse?"
When the citizens of Hillsborough County voted in 1996 to build a football stadium for the Buccaneers, I figured that was the last word on the subject. The ability to forecast the future with such accuracy is the reason I don't play the stock market, but that's another story.
Abandoned storefronts, crime and traffic complicate plans for Suitcase City, but politicians and business leaders are moving forward, columnist Joe Henderson writes.
Joe Henderson column
If we ever need to pick a week to sum up the state of relations between the United States and Cuba, this one might do.
You take the whole package if you choose to live in Florida. That means love bugs, snowbirds doing 45 in the left-hand lane and the fairly good chance that guy you just accidentally bumped on the sidewalk is packing heat.
I think there is a way to get Gov. Rick Scott's help bringing the Tampa Bay area's mass transit into the 20th century. Yeah, I know, we are well into the 21 {+s}{+t} century, but the governor has been a little slow on this issue, and we don't want to throw too much at him.
Joe Henderson column
Churches nationwide, not just the Methodists convening in Tampa, need to focus on helping other people instead of new rules to keep younger members.
Claudia Williams, daughter of Ted Williams, said her father always intended for the items collected through his life be returned to the fans in Boston.
Joe Henderson column
In the classic movie The King and I, Yul Brenner summed up a situation by opining, "'Tis a puzzlement."
Officials can try their best to gift wrap the city of Tampa for the Republican National Convention, but visiting media is likely to focus on the warts, columnist Joe Henderson says.
For weeks, outrage over a killing in Sanford has eroded just about all sense of perspective here, there, and almost everywhere. It pushed every hot button on the board to enflame the largest number of people possible.
This seems like such a simple thing for Gov. Rick Scott to get 'er done. All he needs to do is draw a circle and a slash around the words "Florida Poly" on the state's new budget and be done with a bad idea before it gets worse.
Follow these two simple rules and you can make people do anything you want. First tell everyone that evil people are out to hurt them, and then make it all better by saying the magic word: securit, .Joe Henderson writes.
The deal to sell Steve Queenan's house in Lutz was going smoothly. He had a buyer, he liked the price, but when the appraisal came back on his residence of 2,565 square feet — well, oops. It was actually 2,297 square feet.
Columnist Joe Henderson says USF's arena was "pretty much a dump" when it opened in 1980, and it went downhill after that. Soon, it will be a showcase.
You know an email will be interesting when the opening line reads like this: "OMG Baxley is actually going to defend SYG, this right to commit murder law?"
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