Perhaps you held off buying that new refrigerator, or didn't buy a new home altogether. Either way, that meant a bit less garbage on the way to the landfill. ...more

March 23, 2009

Perhaps you held off buying that new refrigerator, or didn't buy a new home altogether. Either way, that meant a bit less garbage on the way to the landfill. Multiply that frugality across several million people in the Tampa Bay area, and the down economy is having a direct impact on the flow of garbage to government dumps. ...more

March 19, 2009

A community group pressed its case last week for the Tampa Sports Authority to complete negotiations with area residents and the Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA, which has a city contract to operate a youth golf program at Rogers Park Golf Course. ...more

February 25, 2009

Details remain to be worked out, but the Tampa Sports Authority last week moved closer to resolving a neighborhood group's concerns about a proposed youth golf program at Rogers Park Golf Course. ...more

February 4, 2009

Details remain to be worked out, but the Tampa Sports Authority moved closer today to resolving concerns a neighborhood group has with a proposed youth golf program at Rogers Park Golf Course. ...more

January 26, 2009

The presents have been torn into, the boxes opened, the Christmas tree left bare and the strings of burned-out, outdoor lights taken down and bundled up into a tangled ball. ...more

December 26, 2008

TAMPA With renovations under way at Rogers Park Golf Course, the Tampa Sports Authority has called for a review of a controversial contract that allows the YMCA to use the course in exchange for paying for upgrades. The authority's board of directors voted Monday night to schedule an emergency meeting with community leaders while the Tampa City Council and authority review the contract. The Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA plans to renovate the course's former clubhouse for its youth golf program, First Tee of Tampa Bay, a proposal that has raised concerns that the public park will be privatized. ...more

November 18, 2008

Mayor Pam Iorio could soon get a letter asking her to change the terms of a contract allowing the Metropolitan Tampa Area YMCA to operate a youth golf program at Rogers Park. ...more

November 17, 2008

Rogers Park holds a unique place in Tampa's history. In the early 1950s, it was the only gathering spot open to blacks for picnics or political rallies. ...more

October 20, 2008

Using the late Ralph Hughes, the Big Daddy of Hillsborough County politics, as the template for the community's Moral Courage Award is a bit like the NAACP naming its person-of-the-year honor after David Duke. ...more

September 16, 2008