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Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Published July 07Tampa sunsets hold history and figures and they are living tributes to a vibrant and recovering industrial city
To live in Florida means daily encounters with a beauty you don’t deserve. And to live on the Gulf Coast means you have pictures of sunsets on your phone. The photos litter social media feeds. Pantone “sunset-of-the-year” rust and mauve, stopping time, with a surrealistically…
Dutch Bros could set up at busy Seminole corner
Pinellas superintendent: Property tax vote could still impact schools
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Published July 07Federal appeals court rejects DeSantis’ suit against ‘woke’ college accreditation process, again
A federal appeals court affirmed Monday dismissal of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ 2023 challenge to the college accrediting process, which he believes enforces diversity and related interests he considers “woke.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit rejected the state’s…
Tampa Magazine
Published July 01Rightway Parking Reveals the True Cost of Flying From Philadelphia
For Philadelphia travelers, the smarter move is to count the costs that usually stay outside the airfare box.
City of Tampa
Published June 23Tampa Residents Encouraged to Save Water as Regional Drought Continues
Tampa Residents Encouraged to Save Water as Regional Drought Continues Tony D. Tue, 06/23/2026 - 03:27 pm The Tampa Water Department offers irrigation evaluations to residents who want to cutdown on outdoor water use. Water Department Promotes Conservation Programs as Regional…
Weekly Challenger
Published March 02OP-ED: Why We Can’t Wait
BY REV. J.C. PRITCHETT ST. PETERSBURG — Forty years ago (“Don’t let hopeless bug zap stadium zeal,” Evening Independent 7/17/1986), I wrote about the opportunities I hoped the development of the Gas Plant area would offer our city, especially young residents like me. A few years…
Weekly Challenger
Published February 06OP-ED: We’re Not Talking Enough About Florida’s War on Opportunity
By Kyandra Darling On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Florida’s attorney general issued a legal opinion aimed at dismantling long-standing affirmative action and diversity programs across our state. The symbolism was impossible to ignore, and so were the consequences. This was not a…