August 28, 2003
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Successfully Going Broke
By
Mitch Traphagen
TAMPA - In the business world, consultants
are not well known for providing specific conclusions. For many, the more
nebulous the findings, the better. The more precise the prediction, the greater
the chance of being wrong.
The Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission hired
a consulting firm to provide a picture of where the growth is leading but there
was no escaping their conclusion: Hillsborough County is growing rapidly and is
going broke in the process.
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Going Home to Fort
Lonesome
By
Mitch Traphagen
FORT LONESOME - The view from the
wooden bench in front of the store suggests that this little intersection of
two-lane state roads is the center of industrialized agriculture. A constant
stream of trucks hauling who knows what passes by and one big honking pickup
after another, mostly four wheel drives and caked with mud, pulls into the
gravel lot of the grocery store.
It is an impressive stream of traffic for a corner in the
middle of nowhere.
But digging just a little deeper it is easy to see that Fort
Lonesome is not the middle of nowhere.
Fort Lonesome is an oasis.
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Just a Reminder...The Observer News Will Be Closed Monday, September 1 For Labor
Day
Deadline for Classified Ads is Friday August 29 at 4 p.m.
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Coming Up in the Observer News
The motorcycle has hit the road again.
The series Finding Florida will continue with A Tale of Two
Islands.
Part One:
Searching From the Beginning
Part
Two: Heading Home
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Also Coming Up
We are working to make the Online
Edition of the Observer News your one source for local news and more.
Our new look will be available soon! In the meantime, we've
added a few new features such as the ability to search our archives.
While not every article from the print edition runs in the online
edition, our new search feature may help you find the story you are
looking for.
The Observer News is South Hillsborough
County's Number One source for news and information!
In The Archives:
The Changing Face of South Hillsborough:
The rumors are flying about several big box retailers moving into
south county. The facts, however, are few. Yet one in every ten new
jobs created in the entire nation came from the Tampa-St.
Petersburg-Clearwater Metropolitan area. South county communities are
joining forces to become a strong player in that prospering market.
How will all of the changes effect our communities and area businesses
and what can south county shoppers expect from the future?
The three-part series is available on
the web:
Part 1 - Welcome
to SouthShore
Part 2 - Meet
the Neighbors
Part 3
- It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a Home Depot!
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