Mayor Rick Baker today announced an initiative to coordinate the city's efforts to get its share of the federal stimulus monies that are available. ...more

March 19, 2009

Is Tampa doing enough to conserve energy and reduce its carbon footprint? Determining that will be one of many tasks awaiting a new citizens task force created by Mayor Pam Iorio that over the next several months will work on implementing a new citywide energy conservation initiative with Tampa Electric Co., the city's main utility. The task force will come up with recommendations for energy conservation, renewable energy and climate-change initiatives for implementation by city officials and TECO. ...more

March 18, 2009

Residents are considering potential names for a retention pond on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard that is being fashioned into a small lake. ...more

March 18, 2009

Nearly five years ago, as ground was being broken on the Main Street Landing construction site, city officials at the time looked forward to March 2009. That's when, if all went as planned, the Community Redevelopment Agency would have happily presented a $1.25 million check to Gainesville-based developer Ken McGurn if the Mediterranean-styled commercial-residential development was significantly built out and half the units leased or sold. March 2009 has arrived, and McGurn met March 10 with City Council, which was acting in its role as CRA board. Instead of a grip-and-grin check presentation, the two sides were meeting to figure out what they might do to restore a now-strained business relationship and get the project moving again. ...more

March 18, 2009

The city plans to lay off another 20 employees over the next several months. ...more

March 13, 2009

Pedro Martinez has caught the attention of Los Angeles Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti. ...more

March 13, 2009

Tampa officials and event sponsors are studying ways to control the drunken revelry plaguing the 105-year-old Gasparilla Parade, the city's signature event. ...more

March 13, 2009

The city plans to lay off another 20 employees over the next several months. ...more

March 12, 2009

The city's fire marshal's office has given Tampa Convention Center officials 30 days to fix a faulty fire alarm system. ...more

March 12, 2009

The city's fire marshal office has given Tampa Convention Center officials 30 days to fix faulty equipment on the a 60,000-square foot facility's fire alarm system. ...more

March 11, 2009