The middle of the week is its deepest part. If you feel like you're drowning, here are some floating bits of yesterday's wreckage you can cling to while the tides carry you closer to the safety of the weekend.
St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman and representatives of the Tampa Bay Rays agreed to meet today and resume talks in the wake of the City Council approving a possible deal that would allow the team to look for another home. So it looks like everybody might be willing to play … er, play … nope, sorry. Can't stomach another baseball pun.
Hillsborough tourism agency Visit Tampa Bay kicked off a new $1.7 million "Florida's Most" campaign, the most expensive in the agency's history. The idea seems to be to show how much Florida fun is packed right here into the Bay area, and is much better than my own concept, "Busch Gardens Is Still, Like, An Hour From The Beach."
After its president sent Rick Scott an angry letter rebuking the governor for ever appointing rich guy/sayer of shitty things/party embarrassment Sam Rashid to the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority board, the Tampa Chamber of Commerce quickly reacted like somebody who didn't simmer long enough before clicking "send" on a particular email, and issued an apology. Scott, never having uttered or received one of his own, probably needed to be told what an apology is.
And finally, USF cops are investigating reports of men exposing themselves on campus — I guess because it's in a way that makes the women on campus feel uncomfortable, as opposed to the not-at-all-creepy accepted tradition of "fun" on-campus male self-exposure everybody loves and embraces?
This article appears in Oct 22-28, 2015.