The city council, acting as the community redevelopment agency, has eliminated proposed land use and zoning changes in the Drew Park Strategic Action Plan. ...more

August 6, 2008

Randy Coen has a long connection to this neighborhood. As a youngster, he traveled its streets, visited its stores and attended first through sixth grades at Lois Elementary, which is now a school district maintenance facility, at Lois and Crest avenues. ...more

July 12, 2008

When Steve Garvey flies into Tampa International Airport for an occasional speaking engagement, the plane touches down about a mile from his childhood home. ...more

June 29, 2008

MENSA! Sheesh, I should have known! For the past few weeks, treasured reader Bart Siegel, who got his hoop skirt in a wad over some critical columns on the Confederate flag kerfuffle, has been issuing more challenges to debate than John McCain. ...more

June 29, 2008

TAMPA - A Palm Harbor man was arrested Saturday night at Fantasy Land after he exposed himself to an undercover police officer inside the adult movie theater, an arrest affidavit said. ...more

June 22, 2008

Undercover police were kept busy in Drew Park Friday night, arresting six men they say were engaged in sexual acts at two adult businesses. ...more

June 22, 2008

perhaps in a cost-cutting move - that the producers of hard-core pornography have decided to do away with extraneous and needless time-wasting filmmaking devices such as plot and dialogue. ...more

June 21, 2008

TAMPA - A local criminal defense lawyer arrested May 21 in a police crackdown on adult businesses in the Drew Park area will enter a diversion program to have a misdemeanor charge expunged. ...more

June 16, 2008

Continuing a crackdown on adult businesses in Drew Park, police Friday night arrested five people on charges of lewd and lascivious behavior and exposure of sexual organs, records show. ...more

June 15, 2008

In the yellowed pages of a scrapbook is a Tampa Times article announcing my father's graduation as a lieutenant from flight school at Drew Field. Remnants of the old airbase are still visible in what we call Drew Park, next to Tampa International Airport. ...more

June 15, 2008