Baseball season starts soon. I live in Florida — in St. Petersburg, to be exact — where baseball is not at all appreciated. St. Pete, for example, has the worst baseball stadium in the whole world. Its dark and dank
The mainstream news is filled with stories and anecdotes about how Americans, to pay for gas, are doing things such as giving up steak and trying to trade in their SUVs for Priuses. But the big land use
One striking modern American invention is our reliance on the automobile for tasks undreamt of even a generation ago. In much of America, including outer St. Petersburg, Florida, where I travelled today, there is now a mini rush-hour from
I noticed yesterday on the window of a downtown restaurant at an MLK Day parade in St. Petersburg, Fla., a reprint of a flyer from the Nashville Downtown Partnership, encouraging people to say “no” to panhandlers. Is this
The shareholders of OSI Restaurant Partners yesterday approved the amended merger agreement for the company to be acquired by an investor group consisting of Bain Capital Partners, LLC, Catterton Management Company, LLC, OSI’s founders and its executive management. OSI did
Three-quarters of a million Americas are homeless, according to a first-ever Annual Homeless Assessment Report by HUD. (Seeing news that is less than upbeat is in itself a surprise to see at the top of a government website.)
NASD fined Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. (RJFS) of St. Petersburg, FL, $2.75 million for failing to maintain an adequate supervisory system to oversee the sales activities of over 1,000 producing branch managers working in offices throughout the United States."RJFS’s
The good news: Many cities are getting more residential units built in their downtowns. The bad news: In some places, many of these units are second homes for the wealthy. Accordingly, while these units have provided work for the
