When FDR became president we were facing an economical condition much as we are today. He instituted a program that put millions of people back to work and helped us get out of the Great Depression. It was a work program that was aimed at building municipal buildings, fixing roads and building bridges. It worked then and could do the same today. The government has said that funding for these projects has already been allocated, so why hasn't it been done? So many people are out of work and so many are losing their homes. A great percentage of these people would gladly take this work to put food on their table and a roof over their heads. ...more

November 15, 2009

Tampa Fire Rescue will build the city's first "green" fire station on Cross Creek Boulevard in New Tampa. ...more

August 6, 2008

Tampa Fire Rescue will build the city's first "green" fire station on Cross Creek Boulevard in New Tampa. ...more

July 31, 2008

Soaring costs and plunging revenues have created "the perfect storm" of a budget year, prompting city leaders to scrutinize expenses large and small and consider fees for emergency response to traffic accidents. ...more

July 9, 2008

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is my hometown. Although I haven't lived there since 1973, it's still "home" to me in the way that the places where we grow up stay fixed forever in our hearts. It's a genuine "Leave it to Beaver" kind of town where kids ride bikes along tree-lined streets, and people still go downtown to shop. ...more

June 30, 2008

Tampa is getting with the green movement. On Thursday, the city council unanimously gave its preliminary approval to an ordinance that offers incentives to developers that build environmentally friendly buildings. The ordinance also requires new city buildings to be constructed according to green standards, following a policy Mayor Pam Iorio set forward several weeks ago. ...more

June 13, 2008

SEBRING — Five city buildings will soon be retrofitted with technology to reduce its $65,778 annual energy bill, and the city isn't pay a dime to make it happen. Ewald Probst, owner of Energy Saving Systems, said his company will supply and install energy-saving equipment at their cost and will share in the energy bill savings over a five-year period to recoup the costs. ...more

October 18, 2007