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Dr. Jim Davison runs for County Commission
Fix Our Roads First's own Dr. Jim Davison is running for Hillsborough County Commission, District 6. In addition to his other volunteer...
Karen
Jul 24, 20241 min read
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Karen
Sep 23, 20220 min read
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What's on the Ballot?
The transportation tax hike is expected to raise $342 million in the first year. Assuming an inflation & population increase factor of...
Karen
Sep 23, 20221 min read
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Hot Mess: County seeking ANOTHER sales tax hike!
Before resolving how to refund more than half a billion dollars illegally taken from Hillsborough County residents, the County...
Karen
Jan 8, 20222 min read
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Hillsborough Officials vote to Remove I-275 widening north of Malfunction Junction
The five "Tampa-Centric" Hillsborough County Commissioner voted last week to eliminate FDOT's plan to add capacity to 10 miles of I-275...
Sharon
Jan 8, 20221 min read
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Hillsborough Road Condition Plummets
The average condition of over 7,000 miles of Hillsborough County-owned roads has plunged from "satisfactory" to border-line "poor" over...
Karen
Oct 3, 20211 min read
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Bad Case of Distrust: County Tries to Hold Road Funding Hostage to Force Funding Costly Rail/Transit
No wonder there's a bad case of Distrust with County Center in Hillsborough. The effort by the Hillsborough County BOCC and County...
Sharon
Aug 15, 20211 min read
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Sharon
May 20, 20210 min read
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Pandemic, Plummeting Transit Ridership and the Rail Tax Saga
May 7, 2020 The city of Tampa, with a population less than a third of the county of approximately 400K, is the densest part of...
Sharon
May 17, 20201 min read
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Thanks to Commissioners Miller, Murman, White and Hagan
April 15, 2020 Thanks to the commissioners who voted again today with compassion and good judgment and displayed their priority is the...
Sharon
May 17, 20201 min read
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Hillsborough Commissioner Smith Exploits Time of Crisis for $16B Rail Tax Round 2
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 While the Federal government, in one hand, is providing rescue checks and stimulus to devastated businesses...
Sharon
May 17, 20201 min read
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Hillsborough County Commissioner White Responds With Facts to Tampa Bay Times Attack
After reading the Tampa Bay Times’ Feb. 23 editorial, “Leading the way on transportation,'' I was struck by how it seemed long on...
Sharon
Mar 8, 20201 min read
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AFT 2.0 Rail Tax Throws Billions At Rudderless Transit Agency
Transit agency HART currently has no leadership at the helm and is in a state of at least semi-chaos due to some poor judgement by its...
Sharon
Mar 8, 20201 min read
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Inadequate Roads for 38 New Schools in Hillsborough County
All for Transportation (AFT) never told voters their new $16 BILLION transit tax will not fund needed increased road capacity for any of...
Sharon
Mar 8, 20201 min read
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