It's lunchtime at the West Tampa Sandwich Shop. For those who love this sort of thing, the Howard Avenue cafe is the epicenter of politics in a community where politics is a building block of life. ...more

January 8, 2010

Is she Janet Cruz or Janet Rifkin? Or maybe Janet Gonzalez? Janet Cruz is the front-runner in the special election to replace state Rep. Mike Scionti in state House District 58 in heavily Hispanic West Tampa and Town 'N Country. ...more

January 6, 2010

Is she Janet Cruz or Janet Rifkin? Or maybe Janet Gonzalez? Janet Cruz is the front-runner in the special election to replace state Rep. Mike Scionti in state House District 58 in heavily Hispanic West Tampa and Town 'N Country. But for the past six years, she has been known as Janet Rifkin. ...more

January 4, 2010

Children at the second We Care event ran from booth to booth making ornaments, wreaths and jewelry - all holiday gifts for others. ...more

December 23, 2009

Argosy University staff members arrived recently at University Mall with a truckload of children's gifts. ...more

December 23, 2009

Hillsborough County Democratic Party Chair Pat Kemp has announced she'll enter the race for the West Tampa state House seat being vacated by Rep. Mike Scionti. ...more

December 22, 2009

The voter registration deadline for the Jan. 26 special primary election to replace state Rep. Michael Scionti, D-Tampa, is 5 p.m. Dec. 28. ...more

December 19, 2009

The Barrio Latino Commission on Tuesday rejected arguments that it would be too costly to rehabilitate the 86-year-old Ferlita Macaroni Factory, and denied a request for a demolition permit. ...more

December 16, 2009

Argosy University staff members arrived recently at University Mall with a truckload of children's gifts. ...more

December 16, 2009

Argosy University staff members arrived recently at University Mall with a truckload of children's gifts. Bicycles, games, shoes and socks were quickly unloaded, and 72 names were marked off a list of more than 6,500 children whose families have asked for assistance with gifts this year. Priscilla Charite of The Salvation Army's Angel Tree Project is thrilled, hugging the delivery group of school staff members. "Where other people are cutting back, your group bumped it up," Charite told them. ...more

December 12, 2009