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When Laurie, a 20-something saleswoman in Tampa, Fla., got pulled over this summer for a minor traffic violation, she (and the police officer) discovered that her driver's license had expired. She was arrested for that misdemeanor, was released and dutifully got her license renewed the next...
That point was often raised Thursday night further north on Florida's Gulf Coast, in Tampa. There, as a result, the Hillsborough County School Board ruled at a meeting that it would allow the speech. Dean and other speech opponents insist the Administration has not given educators an advance look at it, but Hillsborough schools superintendent Mary Ellen Elia announced that she and board members had indeed seen it and concluded that it conveys a healthy, nonpartisan message. Said Democratic board member Doretha Edgecomb: "It's a message that a lot of Presidents have given before." But some members complained...
...This new skill that I'm acquiring in drafting players - you never know when it might come in handy," says Pam Iorio, mayor of Tampa, Fla. And how, precisely, might her fantasy prowess help her with her day job? "I'm not sure yet," she says...
...keep the house. My neighborhood's got too many foreclosed homes as it is." She points to one that lenders have yet to sell - but which she and her neighbors fear has become a nighttime lair for drug-addict squatters. (Watch a video on people facing foreclosure in Tampa...
...women voters in 2008, a 5-point increase over John Kerry's tally in 2004. And while about half of female Floridians voted for Bush in 2004, 52% went for Obama last year. As a result, says MacManus, a political-science professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa, "Crist could end up making a bold appointment when you consider how helpful a little diversity would be to the Republican image at this point...