Wednesday was a mixed bag of crazy, but at least there was some good crazy in there.
Workers in various Tampa Bay industries spent Tax Day rallying for an increase in the minimum wage to $15 per hour. I'm sure that sounds like a lot of money to fast-food restaurant managers, but any amount would sound like a lot when you're providing the world with 99-cent sandwiches made of sawdust and spite.
A bill that would allow students at one school to play on another school's sports teams was approved by a state Senate panel. Now, before you say that sounds ridiculously stupid, you've gotta understand it's for cases in which the student's school doesn't offer the athletic programs in which he or she wants to participate. Oh, no, wait — yeah, that's still ridiculously stupid, or at least more stupid than, say, taking 4% of our country's military budget and spending it on funding athletics, art and music in every school in the country in perpetuity, so our kids aren't all bored, dumb and stabby.
The CEO of Seattle's Gravity Payments said he'll slash his own salary from $1 million to $70,000 so it could pay all its employees that same amount. That certainly might shame some other American CEOs into following suit, were other American CEOs capable of experiencing that particular emotion.
And finally, Tampa's Columbia Restaurant Group announced its resurrection of the iconic local Goody Goody burger restaurant will occur in Old Hyde Park Village. Because nothing says "good-ol'-days casual" like being next door to a movie theater where you can get flick, a guavatini and sweet potato-prosciutto poutine for just $100.
This article appears in Apr 9-15, 2015.