Sh*t Happened: Making lunch at your desk less unbearable since 2015, except when we run closeup images of bugs sometimes.
The University of Tampa is now a completely smoke-free campus, having prohibited all tobacco products as well as e-cigarettes. Because if college campuses are famous for anything, it's their ability to enforce rules against the smoking of banned substances.
The Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce's 2016 Political Hob Nob drew more than 50 Hillsborough County candidates and 600 members of the public. Meanwhile, Hillsborough citizens unaware that enough electable positions existed to produce 50 local candidates watched a couple of Big Bang Theory reruns and pronounced themselves geniuses.
And finally, in the wake of confirmation that the Zika virus is actively being transmitted in the area by mosquitos, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a travel warning advising pregnant women not to visit a Miami area neighborhood. Guess we finally found something whose desirability isn't instantly improved by being "locally sourced," amirite, folks? Hello?
This article appears in Jul 28 – Aug 4, 2016.