Monday morning, the board of Tampa Bay Water voted to spend $1 million for a consultant to help the regional wholesale utility select the firm that will get the job of fixing the many cracks that have developed in its 15-billion-gallon C.W. Bill Young Reservoir. Fixing this crack problem at the reservoir, which is less than five years old, is going to cost almost as much as the $146 million it cost to build it. When you're throwing around that kind of dough, what's another million tacked onto the bottom line? ...more

October 21, 2009

Moving water across county lines has always been a point of contention in Florida. ...more

March 20, 2009

The Legislature put $2 million in the state budget this year to provide a small staff, offices and operating money for the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority. ...more

May 27, 2008

TAMPA - In his first meeting as chairman of a regional transportation authority, former Buccaneers linebacker Shelton Quarles saved the football analogies for the end. ...more

October 26, 2007

Much rides on the ability of a new regional board to bring area towns, cities and counties together to fix transportation problems larger than any single jurisdiction can tackle. ...more

October 14, 2007