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Search results for "Tampa Bay Times" ...
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Tampa Bay Times: Stand Your Ground
In the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting controversy, the Tampa Bay Times systematically reviewed scores of "stand your ground" cases and created the first database of its kind to bring the facts of all these cases together as a single source.
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In God’s Name: Abuse at religious group homes in Florida
The Tampa Bay Times shines a light on unlicensed children's homes, operating for years in rural areas out of plain sight and run by zealous operators who believe they answer only to God.
Tags: Religion; religious group; children
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Saving Millions to Cost Billions
The executives who run the local power plant in St. Petersburg said from the start that their customers should help pay a $2.5 billion repair bill at their nuclear plant because no one could have predicted or prevented the disaster that crippled the facility and shut it down. But the Tampa Bay Times revealed gaping holes in that argument. Porgress received multiple warnings from employees and contractors about their approach to the project. An internal report obtained by Tampa Bay Times even warned the utility against self managing such an ambitious construction effort.
Tags: St. Petersburg; Tampa Bay Times; Repair Bill; Utility
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Pension Secrecy and Costly Descisions
These investigative stories, by the Tampa Bay Times, have documented investment debacles, political influence peddling, and oversight failures at the nation's fourth largest pension fund.
Tags: Pension; Investment; Tampa Bay Times; Pension Fund
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Soaring Home Prices in the Bay Area
This investigation by the St. Petersburg-Times looks at the skyrocketing price of real estate in Tampa Bay area homes. Reporters analyzed more than 260,000 homes in 300 neighborhoods to discover a new prospect of wealth for homeowners. "This has changed the face of neighborhoods, created wealth for middle class homeowners unthinkable short of winning the lottery and turned some into overnight land speculators."
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"When Seconds Count"
Reporters from WFTS-TV performed an analysis of emergency response times for EMS districts in the Tampa Bay area. What they found was that the St. Pete an d Pinellas counties were, on average, 6 minutes slower to respond for emergency calls. The action team also discovered that, in some districts, ambulances were not well equipped to decrease their response time.