Santa Fest, a couple of hockey games and a few other events may interfere with a time travel excursion in December, so the Tampa Bay History Center has postponed its grand opening to Jan. 17. ...more

October 14, 2008

Hoping to escape labor issues, Vicente Martinez Ybor became the first Key West cigarmaker to move his operations to Tampa. ...more

August 31, 2008

The Kresge Foundation has awarded a $1 million grant to the Tampa Bay History Center being built in downtown Tampa. ...more

August 26, 2008

It should be quite a Christmas present to ourselves. Sometime this December, the massive, new Tampa Bay History Center is scheduled to open its doors in the Channelside area of downtown. ...more

August 8, 2008

I was feeling for Santiago Corrada. The mayor's administrator for neighborhoods was trying to spread out those oversize construction-site plans for a park on the hood of the mayor's mean green hybrid Toyota about the same time angry dark clouds began blowing across the channel into Cotanchobee Park. And the rain began to spit. ...more

August 4, 2008

To what extent should alcohol be available in city parks and community centers? ...more

July 25, 2008

Who knew Tampa would flip over Red Bull Flugtag? But flip it did, with more than 100,000 people crowding into downtown to watch competitors launch homemade aircraft off a ramp into the Hillsborough River near the Convention Center. ...more

July 22, 2008

The Seminole leader Wild Cat, captured with Osceola under a flag of truce during a meeting with U.S. Army officers, became one of the most feared leaders of the Second Seminole War. ...more

July 20, 2008

Dignitaries, guests, board members and employees gathered with more than 200 Walbridge construction workers recently to celebrate the topping out of the Tampa Bay History Center's new home - the last construction milestone before the December grand opening. ...more

June 25, 2008

Meet you at the mural. That's what city officials hope people say when they plan to spend an afternoon at the Riverwalk. ...more

June 24, 2008