Every morning, a hired car picks up Margie Conner at her north Lakeland home and drives her 20 or so miles to Bartow and the school district transportation center. A round trip can cost more than $50. ...more

October 25, 2007

Every morning, a hired car picks up Margie Conner at her north Lakeland home and drives her 20 or so miles to Bartow and the school district transportation center. A round trip can cost more than $50. Once there, the 58-year-old school bus driver reports to a guard shack, where she sits alone doing nothing for nearly six hours – at $11 an hour. Sometimes she reads a book. She gets two 15 minute breaks and uses the bathroom at the main office. At the end of the day, another hired car takes her home. All this is paid for by Polk County taxpayers, roughly $1,700 so far. ...more

October 24, 2007

A Hillsborough County school bus driver involved in a crash that injured three East Bay High students and another person Thursday morning had been convicted of 12 previous traffic violations. ...more

October 19, 2007

I also wanted to respond to the letter from Ms. Walker. So sorry for her and Darrel Smith whom I have ridden with on his way to work. I have been riding the path since day one, and there are a lot of nice considerate drivers out there, then there are some not so. Yes, I have to stop and get off my bike a lot, but I'd rather do that than have someone hit me or someone complain. Sometimes it is even embarrassing when someone stops to let me go through and I have already gotten off the bike, because it takes me a while to get the thing going again. I will bet that these people driving cars and complaining about us bikers also sometimes have to walk where there is traffic. Think about it. Bet they hate it when the vehicle will not stop to let them by. I also drive a car, and yes, I do stop and motion a pedestrian (even if not in a crosswalk) to pass in front of me. I do not have a stop sign in front of me either. ...more

September 14, 2007

BRANDON - Eugenia Mitchell Shuler, the Hillsborough County school bus driver cited in a crash Tuesday that slightly injured 11 middle school students, resigned today. She submitted a one-page form letter to the school board office in downtown Tampa. ...more

September 5, 2007