The new map is posted. See which Tampa Bay restaurants were fined by the state in July for health and/or safety violations.
If you have a favorite restaurant anywhere in Florida, and want to know whether it has been fined by the state since January 2005, you can find out here. Just type the name of […]
Archive for November, 2007
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A day after watching in horror as a group of Pasconians perpetuated exurban sprawl across 50-year visioning maps provided by Reality Check Tampa Bay, we stumbled across this thinly reported blurb in the Tampa fish wrapper.
Why didn’t someone think of this a long time ago?
All we know at this point is that one John Ryan, […]
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Nov
We don’t care who you are. That’s funny right there!
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Nov
The other day we mentioned seeing a blurb in the fish wrapper about a guy in Polk County who wants to use cap-and-trade to contain sprawl. Cap-and-trade is a form of free-market environmentalism that has been successfully used to reduce air pollution. This cat has an idea how to make it work for land-use planning and we’re enthused.
His name is John Ryan. He’s a Polk County planning commissioner and a respected conservationist. Here’s the gist of […]
10
Nov
Meet Brad A. Wilkinson, a man who gives rich new meaning to the expression “five for fighting.”
Wilkinson doesn’t play hockey, as far as we know, but he does throw down, according to Pinellas County Sheriff’s deputies. They say he refused their order to climb out of his rig early Sunday morning after they found it […]