We’re pleased to welcome Dr. Marc Yacht to the GoToTell team of contributing bloggers.
Dr. Yacht was a general practitioner before he joined Florida’s public health system in 1987. Pasco County residents knew him for 20 years as the Director of the Pasco County Health Department. During that time he improved dental services to needy populations, […]

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Thumbing through tidbits in the local fish wrapper the other day, we were amused to read this tale of Brahmin angst. It seems Mr. Howell and Lovey can’t bear the imposition of a mobile home near their exclusive Davis Islands retreat.
We particularly enjoyed this bit of populism from a city council member: “… people […]

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Hillsborough County School Board Member April Griffin maintains a blog where we notice some interesting items from time to time, not the least of which is this one about the Merit Award Program for teachers.
Griffin linked to this analysis by the Orlando Sentinel, which indicates that teachers at predominantly white and affluent schools are twice […]

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The cover of the Hillsborough South County Transportation Plan bears this slogan: Transportation leadership you can trust. George Orwell would have loved that.
Two things (about the only two things) you can trust about this plan are that it reflects horrible judgment and that it’s blessed by a county government owned and operated by developers.
Sprawl sucks. […]

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We’re taking credit. It’s almost certainly unwarranted but we’ve got plausible credibility. So, hoop-dee-doo for GoToTell and much bigger, much more deserved huzzahs to the Tampa Downtown Partnership and CreativeTampaBay for bringing Portland, Oregon into this conversation.
About 10 days ago we woke up late to The Urban Charrette, which launched way back in April. Better […]

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