TAMPA - What did the televangelist say to the strip-club owner who talked to the Islamic activist? TV watchers can find out when "Live Prayer" host Bill Keller, Mons Venus owner Joe Redner and Ahmed Bedier, executive director of the Tampa chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations, talk about Christianity and Islam in a live debate on the Tampa Bay Community Network. The three will be featured on "The Bleepin Truth," which airs at 10 p.m. Tuesday on Bright House Channel 20. Check local listings for other times and channels. ...more

October 2, 2007

Jason Accardi offered a nervous handshake after his winning bid of $1.175 million for the Amphitheater, a glittering discotheque for almost 10 years but closed since May. ...more

October 2, 2007

YBOR CITY - Jason Accardi offered a nervous handshake after his winning bid of $1.175 million for the Amphitheater, a glittering discotheque for almost 10 years but closed since May. ...more

October 1, 2007

Debate is raging over Hometown Democracy, a proposed constitutional amendment that would give voters - and not city or county commissioners - the last word on local growth plans. ...more

September 12, 2007

The proposed amendment to Florida's constitution called Hometown Democracy is a few hundred thousand petitions short of making it to the 2008 ballot. Yet debate is already raging over the plan to give voters – and not city or county commissioners – the last word on local growth plans. Early Tuesday, about 250 builders, land-use lawyers, planners and media types paid $39 a plate for the Tampa Bay Business Journal's breakfast face-off on the issue at Pepin Hospitality Centre. ...more

September 11, 2007

TAMPA - A well-heeled crowd of developers and land-use lawyers arrived at the Pepin Hospitality Centre for an early-morning debate today just before 7:30 a.m. A foursome greeted them with a decidedly more late-night bent to their attire. ...more

September 11, 2007