The announcement last week by Tampa Bay Times CEO and Chairman Paul Tash that because of a "crisis situation" employees who opted to leave the paper by October 1 would receive their full severance package has led to a number of notable staffers announcing this week that they'll accept a buy-out, none more prominent than features writer […]

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Church of Scientology

Mitch Perry Report: Times reporter Joe Childs’s work will live on

Ex-Scientologists sue for fraud in Tampa

Gender anarchist Kate Bornstein on being A Queer and Pleasant Danger

A look inside Ybor’s Buildings Alive! tour

Author Janet Reitman delves deeper into Scientology

Church of Scientology official response to Janet Reitman’s book

Welcome wagon: The Church of Scientology moves into Ybor City

Scientology finally moves into Ybor Square

The Gaily News: Gay at the Golden Globes — Glee wins big, Annette Bening and The Kids Are All Right, Ricky Gervais pokes at Scientologists

USF Scientists say oil spill could hit Key West by the end of the weekend, Channel 10 questions city of Tampa re Church of Scientology purchasing Ybor Square, and Jonathan Alter on President Obama: Mitch Perry Report 5.18.10

Channel 10 report questions why city of Tampa is allowing Church of Scientology to purchase Ybor Square building

CL’s new landlord? Church of Scientology in negotiations to buy Ybor Square, increase Tampa presence

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