The big news out of Tampa came from the airport, which announced that beginning next May, there will be two weekly nonstop international flights leaving the Cigar City to Zurich, Switzerland. Local officials were effusive about the move, even if their economic projections may be a bit too gradiose.
One of the local political stories next year will be whether Pinellas Congressman Bill Young will run again for Congress. The odds are ….well, who knows what the odds are?, as people have been predicting for a decade he'll hang up his wing tips and yet he keeps on truckin' at the age of 80…
A former U.S. Marine is about to travel half way across the world soon, all to raise money to help children in South Asia with cleft palates.
And not only is the Tea Party a divisive bloc of voters compared to the rest of the nation, apparently they are within their own nominal party.
This article appears in Sep 15-21, 2011.