TAMPA - The tale of two Tampa Bay area cities and how they treat the homeless illustrates how hospitality seems to run in cycles. ...more

December 14, 2007

As local residents struggle to find ways to help the area's homeless, recent dust-ups on both sides of Tampa Bay show the limits of even the most compassionate policies. ...more

December 11, 2007

Earlier this year, the city's homeless were bouncing from place to place, moving their tents and tattered belongings from one makeshift campsite to another. ...more

December 1, 2007

Mike Tyson ate sloppy joes and read the mobster epic "American Gangster" during his 24-hour jail term for a DUI conviction. ...more

November 22, 2007

Images of police with box cutters, slicing and discarding homeless people's tents as a fire and safety threat, cast a national spotlight on St. Petersburg's treatment of its neediest residents. ...more

November 2, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - Video images of police wielding box cutters, slicing and discarding homeless people's tents deemed a fire and public safety threat, cast a national spotlight on St. Petersburg's treatment of some of its neediest residents. Now, a tent city preparing to open on Dec. 1 is aimed at avoiding a possible repeat of the widely publicized tent-slashing incident in January. ...more

October 31, 2007