Despite gloomy economic trends, groundbreakings for a bank and office building are good news in one of the city's redevelopment areas. ...more

November 19, 2008

TAMPA With renovations under way at Rogers Park Golf Course, the Tampa Sports Authority has called for a review of a controversial contract that allows the YMCA to use the course in exchange for paying for upgrades. The authority's board of directors voted Monday night to schedule an emergency meeting with community leaders while the Tampa City Council and authority review the contract. The Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA plans to renovate the course's former clubhouse for its youth golf program, First Tee of Tampa Bay, a proposal that has raised concerns that the public park will be privatized. ...more

November 18, 2008

Nearly 30 residents attended a community forum Thursday night to air concerns about a 10-year, rent-free contract that allows the Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA to headquarter a youth golf program at Rogers Park Golf Course. ...more

November 15, 2008

Nearly 30 residents attended a community forum Thursday night to air concerns about a 10-year, rent-free contract that allows the Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA to headquarter a youth golf program at Rogers Park Golf Course. The East Tampa facility, at 7911 N. Willie Black Drive, is owned by the city and managed by the Tampa Sports Authority. The course, opened in 1952, was the only one open to blacks during segregation. ...more

November 14, 2008

A study by a Washington-based foundation found more people, more disposable income and a financially healthier East Tampa community than the one defined by 2000 U.S. Census data. ...more

November 12, 2008

When a Hillsborough County sheriff's sergeant tried to pull over a 1994 Isuzu driven by Duane Linscott in east Tampa Sunday night, mayhem ensued. ...more

November 10, 2008

TALLAHASEE - The Florida Supreme Court rejected the latest round of appeals for Wayne Tompkins, sentenced to die for killing an East Tampa teenager and burying under her home in 1983. ...more

November 7, 2008

Marvin Knight doesn't have to look past the customers at his East Tampa fish market to see where President-elect Barack Obama needs to focus his promise of change. ...more

November 6, 2008

A man sentenced to die for killing his girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter in 1983 filed a petition in U.S. District Court today seeking to have his sentenced overturned. ...more

November 4, 2008

1:15 p.m.: "I felt good, I felt happy," said 50-year-old Tampa native Susan Staten, who voted shortly after 1 p.m. today at the Ragan Park Community Center in East Tampa. "We're ready for a change." ...more

November 4, 2008