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"Don't they have parking there in the hotel?''
Maybe it's because I'm old enough to remember so many of them.
For more than four decades, if you worked downtown, you knew Beverly's Card Shop on Franklin Street.
The pictures on the TV screen were graphic and not easy to watch.
Things are beginning to heat up around here as the twin forces of a hot summer and an equally steamy national political convention prepare to converge downtown in late August.
What is it with these surveys? And why don't people like us?
Somewhere in this favored land, there is a place where teachers teach and students learn. Decisions are made in the classroom, and teachers, along with principals and parents, work together to create the right environment.
It's easy to forget just how many military families grace our town. The military has always been a large part of the fabric of this community. It not only contributes to the economy but participates in its affairs as well.
The movers and shakers in Tampa are calmer now that Ybor City's signs have been spell-checked, writes columnist Steve Otto.
They are mostly faded black-and-white photographs, even in my mind.
I could never figure out how Bill Ratliff made it all those years as a TV anchor.
The beat goes on
The beat goes on
You win some, you lose some.
There are more excuses for the area many call "Suitcase City" than I have space to write. The thing is, it shouldn't have been like this.
It was less than three years ago when I listened as Schools Superintendent Mary Ellen Elia stood in front of 200 parents and tried to explain what was wrong at Middleton High School.
A little more than a year ago, in the closing weeks of the campaign to see who would become Tampa's next mayor, the Republican National Convention was pretty much an afterthought.
What used to be called "rush hour" is now the daily creep and crawl of driving around Tampa Bay, columnist Steve Otto writes
'Steve — I'm going to a special event at George Clooney's house in a few weeks, and two grass-roots supporters and their guests will join us.
Earth Day came and went. It was almost unnoticed at our house except in the discussion about what to do with an old and dead television. Instead of sneaking out in the dark and tossing it in some dumpster like we might have done a few years ago, we scouted around for an approved electronics dump site.
Now that the Tampa City Council has pretty much launched what will surely become known as the "sandwich wars" with Miami by declaring that the Cuban sandwich is now Tampa's "signature sandwich," it might be time to move on.
I'm sure the government cares about Charlotte Astor and will get around to her problem eventually; they're just awfully busy right now.
Last week's column about process in the judicial system and another on the end of the printed version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica filled the digital mailbag.
By most accounts, retired Brig. Gen. C. William Fox Jr. should not be here.
Otto column
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