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TAMPA - For the first time in at least 18 years, Tampa is poised to adopt a budget that lowers the property tax rate.
After three hours of emotional public comment and debate Thursday night, the city council agreed, in a 4-2 vote, to trim Mayor Pam Iorio’s $728 million proposed budget with a 2 percent reduction in the property tax rate.
TAMPA - Hillsborough County property owners staged a mini tax uprising Tuesday, imploring county commissioners to further trim the rate they pay on homes, rentals and businesses.
The commissioners’ answer: Maybe.
The business of tracking where people go by locating their cell phones is heating up in Tampa.
Two former rival companies in Tampa that build those kinds of technical systems are merging operations effective immediately, a sign, they say, of the growing focus on finding where people are via their cell phones.
Who makes your favorite pizza pie?
Where you live, combined with race and income, plays a huge role in the nation’s health disparities - differences so stark that a report issued Monday contends it is as if there are eight Americas instead of one.
How has your life changed since the Sept. 11 attacks? Do you think we’ve become a country divided? What are your memories of that day? Share your thoughts.
Does your spouse have as much education as you? Do you care?
As the Tampa Bay Buccaneers open their season Sunday at Raymond James, the hometown crowd might consider how $12 million could enhance their visit to the eight-year-old stadium.
After years of hearings, studies and discussion, Hillsborough County commissioners on Thursday adopted what could be the Tampa Bay area’s most stringent regulations on adult businesses.
Momentum to build a regional beltway is quickly evaporating. At issue is a plan to build a 120-mile toll road linking Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas and Manatee counties, which could cost about $2 billion. Supporters say the road will ease traffic congestion in eastern Hillsborough. Critics say it will spur urban sprawl and cut across environmentally sensitive lands.
What are your feelings on the proposed beltway? Would it help Tampa Bay-area commuters, or just add to traffic problems? Tell us what you think.
CAPE CANAVERAL - After weathering a lightning strike and Tropical Storm Ernesto, NASA today will try to launch six astronauts skyward and continue assembly of the International Space Station.
In late July a federal district court agreed with two state courts that the security policy of patting down every fan at Raymond James Stadium was unconstitutional. The sports authority has appealed the judge’s ruling. Tell us what you think.
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