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Since last August, more than half a million people have walked through the Museum of Science & Industry’s “Bodies,” a 14,000-square-foot exhibit featuring specially preserved cadavers that reveal everything from the circulatory system to how food is digested.
The mountains in Haiti and Cuba left Tropical Storm Ernesto too tattered and weak to bring much more than a gray smear of drizzly clouds over much of Florida.
TAMPA - Beginning this week, 25,000 Hillsborough County students will take detailed listening, reading, writing and speaking tests to show how well they know English.
A year after Hurricane Katrina, many see the slow reconstruction pace and wonder when things are going to get better. Has the government done a good job to instill confidence in its ability to react swiftly? Tell us what you think.
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Forecasters said Ernesto could grow back into a hurricane in the warm waters off Cuba and come ashore in South Florida as early as Tuesday night, exactly one year after Hurricane Katrina pummeled the Gulf Coast.
Trust was the theme of the second and last statewide televised debate Monday between Republican candidates for governor Charlie Crist and Tom Gallagher, as each argued that voters couldn’t trust the other.
Shannon and Jason Svalen love Lakewood Ranch. They love their teaching jobs at McNeal Elementary, nestled in the Manatee County megadevelopment. They’d love to live there. But with their $34,000 salaries, they couldn’t find a home to fit their budget and their family of four. So, last month, they bought a $196,000 home in Apollo Beach, 35 miles from work. Their neighbors include police officers and firefighters who commute to Tampa or Bradenton.
It turns out that developers are calculating the number of “affordable” homes they need to build based on outdated information, which makes it hard for many people to find homes they can buy. Are you one of them? Do you feel developers are ignoring middle-income buyers? Or are they just catering to more expensive tastes? Tell us what you think.
Though he said he would like to see more programs to teach parents and teens about gangs, Jim Rojas said that ultimately, people like his son have to make their own choices.
TAMPA - Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Buddy Johnson this week bought the silence of his former spokesman with more than $24,000 in public money.
State transportation officials have identified a swath of land in West Central Florida that someday might accommodate a superhighway, a rail system or some combination of both.
Members of the Republican National Convention site selection committee arrived Sunday and will scour the town today and Tuesday to decide whether Tampa is a better place than Cleveland, Minneapolis or New York to host the 2008 Republican National Convention.
The labels used to be simple - white, black, Asian, Hispanic and the ubiquitous “other.” But the United States is changing, and so is its racial and ethnic lexicon. How have the changes affected you? Tell us what you think.
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