People are nervous that parking lots in Ybor City that were supposed to have been a temporary solution to parking woes now will become a permanent source of trouble and noise. Tampa hopes to keep that from happening. ...more

September 16, 2008

The city council will decide today whether it will turn up the volume on people blasting their stereos all over the neighborhood by making bigger fines for them. ...more

July 28, 2008

Anti-drug groups have come a long way since "Just Say No." The point of Saturday's First Annual Summer Youth Festival was to offer drug-free choices for children and teens. They went a long way to show kids that a moral choice was the right one. ...more

July 14, 2008

Local anti-drug organization attracts kids, teens to event with skits, music, games and fun. ...more

July 13, 2008

DUNEDIN - Next month, city commissioners could decide whether to revise the city's noise ordinance to regulate amplified music in the city's downtown entertainment district. The City Commission will hold hearings on the proposed ordinance at 7 p.m. on Aug. 7 and Aug. 21. ...more

July 12, 2008

DUNEDIN -- The latest attempt by the city to regulate amplified music in and around the downtown entertainment district will be debated Wednesday night by the Local Planning Agency. ...more

July 7, 2008

Really, I thought I would have grown up by now. I mean, in most respects, I have. I'm married. I have a job. And a mortgage. And a minivan. ...more

June 26, 2008

No, he's not Randy Jackson, "American Idol" judge - although he has met that Jackson while touring. ...more

June 4, 2008

AVON PARK — The City Council heard some noise from a resident complaining about people blasting their stereos all over the city, and agreed that the existing noise ordinance wasn't enough to mute them. The council asked City Attorney Gerald Buhr and Police Chief Matthew Doughney to figure a way to increase the penalties for playing loud music, after Charles Devlin said that he could hear them across Lake Tulane most weekends. "Every single night without exceptions you hear loud music," Devlin told the council. ...more

May 28, 2008

AVON PARK - The city council heard some noise from a resident complaining about people blasting their stereos all over the city, and agreed that the existing noise ordinance wasn't enough to mute them. The council asked City Attorney Gerald Buhr and Police Chief Matthew Doughney to figure a way to increase the penalties for playing loud music, after Charles Devlin said that he could hear them across Lake Tulane most weekends. ...more

May 27, 2008