On Monday, the governing board of Tampa Bay used one hand to hold its collective nose and plunged the other into the pockets of the people in Pasco, Pinellas and Hillsborough counties who consume the water the regional wholesale utility produces. Then the board voted to spend an estimated $125 million over the next five years to repair the many cracks that have developed in the utility's 15-billion-gallon C.W. Bill Young Reservoir. ...more

June 23, 2009

Frank Miller stood at the east entrance to the Friendship TrailBridge on Tuesday and watched as Hillsborough County workers erected a large fence to keep people out. ...more

December 25, 2008

Frank Miller stood at the east entrance to the Friendship TrailBridge earlier today and watched as Hillsborough County workers erected a large fence to keep people out. On Monday, Pinellas and Hillsborough county officials closed the 2.6-mile span and its catwalks following the release of an engineering study that said collapse of any portion of the bridge was possible. ...more

December 23, 2008