The notice that golf cart inspection and registration is on the docket for March 23-25 brought me into the garage to kick the tires on my 1986 Club Car. I've had new canvas put on, a new motor installed and two sets of new batteries in the seven years I've lived here. ...more

March 11, 2009

Tampa Bay's seagrass destruction by boaters is inexcusable and irresponsible. There are two thoughts about stopping this destruction. The majority side says do nothing and leave the responsibility for changing boater behavior to law enforcement. The other side says take action with a management plan that's positive and meaningful. Cost associated with enforcement in today's financial climate is a "pie in the sky attitude," not reality. To those guides and sport fishermen who support enforcement over management, policies stopping outboard destruction of seagrasses amounts to saying, "We care little about the bay's underwater habitat, the nurseries for juvenile fish." ...more

February 4, 2009

It was that quick. Hillsborough County Deputy Nelson Birch didn't see the sliver of metal in the jail inmate's hands until it was too late. ...more

December 22, 2007

Hillsborough County Deputy Nelson Birch is back on the job after a near-fatal attack by a Falkenburg Road Jail inmate. ...more

December 20, 2007