May 11 2012 - Officials consider idea of consolidating Tampa Bay area medical examiner offices
By Bill Varian, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Local leaders have been talking about ways to merge airport operations and bus services in the Tampa Bay region. One official even suggested trading some of Tampa's cruise business for the Tampa Bay Rays, St. Petersburg's pro baseball team. Now comes a proposal to merge the business of conducting autopsies in Pinellas, Pasco and ... |
May 11 2012 - Latest merger proposal: Combining Pinellas, Pasco, Hillsborough medical examiner offices
 Local leaders have been talking about ways to merge airport operations and bus services in the Tampa Bay region. One official has even suggested trading some of Tampaâs cruise business for St. Petersburgâs pro baseball team. Now comes a proposal to merge the business of conducting autopsies in Pinellas, Pasco and Hillsborough counties. Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Dr. Jon Thogmartin pitched ... |
April 30 2012 - General Assembly leaves mass transit route off the road
In the overall Virginia Budget just adopted by the General Assembly, the money needed to fund a mass transit system between Petersburg and Richmond is small change. The General Assembly has approved an $85 billion, two-year budget. The budget approved b |
April 20 2012 - CGA Honors Linde with Environmental Excellence Award
At its annual meeting in St. Petersburg, Florida, the Compressed Gas Association presented its Environmental Excellence Award to Linde North America in recognition of Lindeâs completion of the first hydrogen fueling station for AC Transit, a transit bus operator in the Bay Area of California. |
April 10 2012 - Pinellas and Hillsborough bus ridership at all-time highs, thanks to economy, gas prices, tourism
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Monday, April 9, 2012 Jefferson Mells, center, sits with his arm around Deanna Lewis on Monday ï»żwhile they ride a PSTA bus toward downtown St. Petersburg. Lewis said they just started taking the bus regularly, and though it can be inconvenient at times, âWeâre still happy.â Debra Brightbill takes the bus to work. To run her errands. To visit her friends. It ... |
March 26 2012 - Vietnam veteran Herman Gordon found peace as a bus driver
By Andrew Meacham, Times Staff Writer Saturday, March 24, 2012 ST. PETERSBURG â The year after he finished 15 years with the Army, Herman Gordon got the job he had been waiting for: driving a bus. Mr. Gordon had maintained the job would be perfect for him. His family came to believe he was right. He started in 1976, driving for what was then the St. Petersburg Municipal Transit System, the same ... |
February 23 2012 - Fla.âs PSTA sets January ridership record
Transit ridership on the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) reached an allâtime high of 1,126,563 rides for the first month of 2012. Thatâs a jump of 8% over January, 2011. âWeâve seen strong ridership across the board,â said Brad Miller, CEO, PSTA. âThis is the second month in a row where weâve set record ridership with an average increase of 8.5%...itâs very ... |
January 27 2012 - Florida education news: Student protests, school bus ads, magnet schools and more
OCCUPY THE CAPITOL: About 200 Florida university students protest rising tuition and possible Bright Futures cuts outside the Legislature. More from the Bradenton Herald . (Image from wkrg.com) SCHOOLYARD BRAWL: A St. Petersburg mom and her two daughters are arrested after a fight at John Hopkins Middle School. SCHOOL BUS ADS: A bill to allow Florida school districts to sell space on school ... |
January 24 2012 - Florida presidential primary tracker for Tuesday
Mitt Romney: Tampa, 10:30 a.m., National Gypsum Company, prebuttal to President Barack Obama's State of the Union; Lehigh Acres, 3:30 p.m., Florida Housing Event. Newt Gingrich: St. Petersburg, 9:30 a.m., Tick Tock Restaurant, grass roots rally; Sarasota, 1:45 p.m., Dolphin Aviation, grass roots rally; Fort Myers, 3:45 p.m., Lee Bus Tour stop; Naples, 5 p.m., Cambier Park Bandstand, grass roots ... |
January 17 2012 - Drug bust in Pike County
Officers of the Petersburg Department and the Pike County Sheriffâs Department seized 14.1 grams of methamphetamine during a sting operation in Petersburg. |
January 05 2012 - Pedal-powered party buses get pub crawls rolling in St. Petersburg
By Sharon Kennedy Wynne, Times Staff Writer Thursday, January 5, 2012 The PedalPub, the new 16-person pedal-powered party bus that will be used for pub crawls, private parties and antique shopping sprees, is up and running outside of Ferg's Bar, 1320 Central Ave. in St. Petersburg. It is one of two new open-air party buses that will pedaling around downtown St. Petersburg this year, taking ... |
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