From Darden Rice: I’m fired up over the embarrassing excuses for the lack of curbside recycling here in Pinellas County. What many thought was a done deal to create a countywide curbside recycling program now appears to be in big trouble. Sign our petition: we want a countywide curbside recycling program. We’ll hand deliver your [...]

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will visit the Tampa Bay area Thursday, Jan. 28, the day after his first State of the Union address, the White House has announced. Update – Monday, 2:33 p.m.: The town hall President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will hold in Tampa on Thursday is open [...]

He’s the insurgent candidate for the US Senate who just won a straw ballot on Charlie Crist’s home turf. He’s the fresh face of a resurgent conservative movement pictured earlier this month on the cover of the New York Times magazine. He’s the rock-star politician you keep reading about in the newspaper. Well, now opportunity [...]

According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, 350,000 child abductions by a member of the child’s family occur each year. Thousands more go unreported. House Bill 787, filed this week by Representative Darryl Rouson (D-St. Petersburg), addresses the complex and tragic issue of family child abduction. Representative Rouson is deeply committed to [...]

First of all, to the anonymous bloggers who attempted to discredit the good name of one of Tampa’s finest families, you should be ashamed of yourselves. I know a little something about effective, anonymous, negative blogging, and you sir, are no Jack Kennedy. In fact, the anti-Cruz blog Politics in Tampa is a perfect example [...]

I’ll be blogging, and tweeting throughout the day with updates about the primary for the hotly contested special election in Florida House District 58. Five candidates – three Democrats and two Republicans – are in a sprint to gain voters’ favor to represent the district, which covers West Tampa, Town ‘N Country, the West Shore [...]

For the first time, a new poll shows that Gov. Charlie Crist is losing to former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio in Florida’s nationally watched Republican U.S. Senate race. Rubio leads by just 3 percentage points — 47-44 — and is well within the error margin of the Quinnipiac University poll. Yet the trend of [...]

Bringing together tequila connoisseurs and casual fans, Red Mesa Cantina is launching its first Tequila Tasting on January 26, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Celebrating its one-year anniversary in January, the downtown St. Petersburg-based taqueria and ceviche bar is making a splash with the event that will feature seminars and tastings hosted by Bradley [...]

A Baseball Community Coalition, a task force aimed at preserving the long-term future of Major League Baseball in the Bay Area, has revealed their top three locations for the Tampa Bay Rays to play baseball. The coalition unanimously approved these three locations: North St. Petersburg (possibly the Carillon area)Downtown TampaWestshore area (Tampa) The three locations [...]