Sunshine State Survey: More Floridians Optimistic About the Future
USF's School of Public Affairs and Nielsen released the season's final results from the Sunshine State Survey Tuesday, giving the most recent indication...» E-Mail This
View ArticleEarly Voting in Pinellas, Polk Starts Today
With the mid-term election coming up in just a couple of weeks, early voting is set to begin in Pinellas County today. With so many ballot decisions for...» E-Mail This
View ArticleUSF Professor Finds Ants, CEOs Not that Different
Plenty of kids play in dirt and collect bugs. Maybe you used to bring home bugs in a jar. Maybe you still do. Deby Cassill does. But, she’s the...» E-Mail This
View ArticleWorld War II Off the Florida Coast
It's hard for us to imagine having a hostile military presence sitting off the coast of Florida. While it may sound like something out of a spy novel,...» E-Mail This
View ArticleSt. Pete Council KO's Rays Move
On Thursday, the St. Petersburg City Council rejected by a 5-3 vote Mayor Rick Kriseman's proposed agreement with the Tampa Bay Rays that would have...» E-Mail This
View ArticlePiano Music is in the Pinellas County Air
Pianos are popping up on street corners, sidewalks and other unexpected places in Pinellas County. This is all part of the Pianos in Pinellas program...» E-Mail This
View ArticleSame-Sex Newlyweds Enroll for State Employee Benefits
With same-sex marriage now the law in Florida, a lot of new husbands and wives will be able to join their spouse's state of Florida insurance plan....» E-Mail This
View ArticleGovernor Pushes STEM Funding Amidst Distractions
Gov. Rick Scott was in Tampa Wednesday to talk about education, particularly his push to expand funding for STEM programs - or science, technology,...» E-Mail This
View ArticleCeremony Remembers Those Lost in Coast Guard Disaster
It still stands as the U.S. Coast Guard's worst peacetime disaster. And 35 years later survivors, family members and supporters still gather near the...
View ArticleSupporters Rally for St. Petersburg African-American Museum
During an event billed as a “Call to Assemble,” about 100 people gathered at the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Museum to voice their opposition to a January...
View ArticleThe Ringling in Sarasota is a Museum and Much, Much More
It's not easy to put your finger on just one thing the Ringling is, because it's a lot of different places all sitting on 66 acres of waterfront...
View ArticlePrivate Middle School Preparing Low-Income Students for Brighter Future
Everyone wants to improve the quality of education in America. But there are no silver bullets to accomplish that. Parental involvement, a more...
View ArticleProject Gives Developmentally Disabled a Chance to Go to College
A college education is generally considered a student's best shot at getting a good job these days, and it's often assumed most high schoolers are...
View ArticleProgram to Help Homeless Teens Expands to Pinellas
A Hillsborough County project to help teens is expanding across the bay with the help of some well known local dignitaries. St. Petersburg Mayor Rick...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists Evaluate the Gulf Five Years After the Spill
It's been nearly five years since the explosion and oil spill on the BP oil rig Deepwater Horizon. On Monday, a diverse group of environmentalists got...
View ArticleLGBT Youth Make up a High Percentage of Homeless Teens
Florida's Department of Children and Families said in 2014 there were at least 5,700 homeless people under the age of 18 in our state. Some of them...
View ArticleGraduation Ceremony Celebrates Students' Best Friends
It's that time of year when thousands of students across the country get ready to graduate from public and private schools. But in St. Petersburg there...
View ArticleCharter Schools Take Aim at At-Risk Students
Of the more than 600 charter schools in Florida. Some focus on the arts, some on sciences. Others are high schools that help students who are at risk...
View ArticleSt. Pete Officer Recovering from Gunshot Wound by Teen
St. Petersburg police are still trying to sort out how a local teen got a loaded handgun and ended up shooting a police officer and rattling the...
View Article3-D Technology Enables California Girl To Have A New Arm
At Clearwater Marine Aquarium on Thursday mechanical engineers, aerospace engineers and movie stars teamed up, all to improve the life of a California...
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