By Dogfish
I think we are all in agreement that the United States Income Tax Codes are not fair. We all can see that the tax codes are written for special interests even some you might be in.  When I was younger and more naïve, I viewed the tax code as the governments way to encourage [...]

(The first in a series)
For the past few days, I’ve been on vacation and traveling between Auburn, Massachusetts and East Lyme, Connecticut where my daughters Susan and Margaret live.  It’s been great seeing two of our kids and their families.  We also got to talk to a lot of people in both places and since [...]

Big Dog gets around town and attends a ton of meetings in order to keep this blog going.  Every once in a while a backlog of smaller issues and opportunities uncovered in his travels clogs his brain.  This piece is a bunch of relatively random items and ideas that once  written will, hopefully, unclog the [...]

Bright 12 year old kids when they get excited about something have a way of giving off a special energy that ignites the imagination of everyone with whom he or she comes in contact.  So, when Elizabeth Brown-Worthington told me about the great adventure on which she was about to embark I became almost as [...]

We Gulfporters expect an awful lot from our Mayor, (salary, $900 per month), and our four City Council Members, (salaries, $600 per month).  Obviously, the folks who run for a City Council seat aren’t doing it for the money.  When one considers the number of meetings they attend and the hours involved, they are probably [...]

Preliminary figures and forecasts submitted to the City Council by City Manager O’Reilly and Administration Director Dan Carpenter indicate that operations costs for 2010-2011, (based on this year), will be around $10 million and projected revenues from all sources will be about $8.8 million.
This year’s revenue shortfall is primarily due to a projected 10-12% further [...]

We are throwing a party to launch the first issue of Gulfport! Magazine and YOU are all invited! Saturday, June 5th, 2010 from 6:00 to 10:00 pm at the Gulfport Casino.

Admission is FREE, food will be catered by Stella’s Deli and Gelato, Tampa Bay blues bands Thunderbolt Brown and the Robbie Robertson Band will provide [...]

At the May 18 Regular Meeting of the City Council, the Council voted 4-1 to continue Gulfport’s relationship with the Tampa Bay Nitrogen Management Consortium. Since the vote will “only” cost the City $6,000 in membership fees over a 5 year period, it would be easy to dismiss the vote as being relatively inconsequential. [...]

Ecco is now open for breakfast and lunch Friday through Monday, in a special arrangement its owner has set up with another group. Having blown my discretionary money at Busch Gardens for five days during a two-week Florida visit with the Grands and their parents, I had been waiting until the retirement check came in [...]

At 10 AM on Wednesday, May 19 the Commissioners of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, (FWC), will meet at the Tradewinds Island Resorts on St. Pete Beach to discuss the agency’s ongoing response to the Deepwater horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Chairman Rodney Barreto called the meeting nearly a month after [...]

When we think our City council is wrong, we’re quick to point out the mistake in the interest of avoiding similar mistakes in the future. Often, when they do something right, we neglect to give proper credit for making the right move. The current oil leakage disaster in our Gulf of Mexico raises [...]

By Dogfish
Our recently gone independent Governor Charlie Crist declares Pinellas county along with much of the Florida Gulf Counties a disaster area, in anticipation of the worst environmental disaster in the history of our country coming ashore and ruining our beach, killing our wildlife, and basically ruining our way of life, just so you can [...]