Tampa remained in competition to host World Cup soccer games in 2018 and 2022 by passing the third stage of the U.S. city and stadium proposal review process along with 26 other cities, the USA Bid Committee announced Thursday. ...more

August 22, 2009

Finally our local government is making common-sense decisions. The Tampa Sports Authority made a decision not to give the front-runner for the vacant executive director post a $10,000 stipend to help pay his mortgages. This man is already making a six-figure income and wanted help from the taxpayer. Two members of the three-member executive committee voted to not give him this money. To them I say well done. ...more

July 27, 2009

A member of the Tampa Sports Authority's Board Executive Committee wants to fire the authority's long-time director, Henry Saavedra. ...more

March 12, 2009

February 1987: Charles "Lex" Salisbury is named supervisor of the Lowry Park Zoo. He is promoted to curator of animals a few months later. ...more

December 19, 2008

Lex Salisbury's time at Lowry Park Zoo, February 1987 to date. ...more

December 18, 2008

TAMPA - Lowry Park Zoo President Lex Salisbury has been a big beneficiary of the zoo's generosity. Earlier this year, the taxpayer-supported zoo gave Salisbury animal pens it paid $27,526 for six years ago. Since 2006, the zoo donated at least 11 animals to Salisbury, including patas monkeys, helmeted guineafowl and a grey parrot. ...more

October 6, 2008

The nonprofit organization that runs Lowry Park Zoo is at odds with Mayor Pam Iorio over the attraction's oversight and ownership of the zoo animals. ...more

September 17, 2008

The nonprofit organization that runs Lowry Park Zoo is at odds with Mayor Pam Iorio over the attraction's oversight and ownership of the zoo animals. The mayor's staff met with zoo officials today for the first time since Iorio's letter last week demanding more accountability and that it sever all ties with Safari Wild, a private exotic-animal park owned by zoo president Lex Salisbury. ...more

September 16, 2008

Hillsborough County's top administrator wants Lowry Park Zoo to make sure that no county money was used for zoo President Lex Salisbury's private exotic-animal park in Polk County. ...more

September 13, 2008

Safari Wild must repay taxpayer-funded Lowry Park Zoo for any money it paid to the Polk County exotic-animal park and for barns the zoo built on the property, Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio said Wednesday. ...more

September 11, 2008