New Port Richey Mayor Rob Marlowe in his weekly blog on events and happenings around town. This week he’s talking about a City event next Saturday to mingle with City Council members.
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Rob Marlowe: A Big Council Agenda on April 21
New Port Richey Mayor Rob Marlowe in his weekly blog on events and happenings in New Port Richey. This week he’s talking about tonight’s upcoming City Council meeting that covers a large array of topics from the city’s embattled CRA and the Main Street Landing Project, to fix-up grants for residents.
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Rob Marlowe: Election Day Plus One Year
New Port Richey Mayor Rob Marlowe in his weekly blog on events around town. This week he’s talking about the progress he has seen in New Port Richey since his election last April.
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Rob Marlowe: Live Theater Art in New Port Richey
New Port Richey Mayor Rob Marlowe in his weekly blog on events and happening around town. This week he’s talking about the various options for live theater art in downtown New Port Richey.
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Rob Marlowe: An Enjoyable Weekend
New Port Richey Mayor Rob Marlowe in his weekly blog on events around town. This week, he’s discussing projects popping up around the city.
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Rob Marlowe: Happy 50th Birthday to North Bay Hospital
New Port Richey Mayor Rob Marlowe in his weekly blog on events around town. This week: a birthday salute to New Port Richey’s North Bay Hospital.
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EDITORIAL: Main Street Will See 30 MPH Speed Limit, No Demolition for Blight
New Port Richey’s City Council members heard a proposal from Public Works Director Robert Rivera on Tuesday night to increase the speed limit from 25 MPH to 30 MPH on Main Street between Congress St and Rowan Road. Mr. Rivera called the measure a “matter of housekeeping.” He said that a seven day traffic study […]
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Rob Marlowe: First Council Meeting of 2015
New Port Richey Mayor Rob Marlowe in his weekly blog on events around New Port Richey. This week he’s talking about the Council’s agenda for the first meeting in 2015.
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Rob Marlowe: 2014 Reflection
New Port Richey Mayor Rob Marlowe in his weekly blog on events around town. This week, looking back on progress in 2014.
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Rob Marlowe: Merry Christmas
Mayor Rob Marlowe in his weekly blog on events around New Port Richey.
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Rob Marlowe: Midterm Elections 2014
New Port Richey Mayor Rob Marlowe in his weekly blog on current events. This week: the midterm elections of 2014.
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Rob Marlowe: Veteran’s Day
New Port Richey Mayor Rob Marlowe in his weekly blog on current events in New Port Richey. This week, he’s discussing Veteran’s Day.
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Rob Marlowe: Partly Sunny with a Chance of Jobs
New Port Richey Mayor Rob Marlowe in his weekly blog on happening around town. This week, his article entitled “Partly Sunny with a Chance of Jobs.”
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Rob Marlowe: Cleaning Up US19
New Port Richey Mayor Rob Marlowe in his weekly blog on city goings-on. This week: the effort to clean up US19.
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Rob Marlowe: Competitive Sports
New Port Richey Mayor Rob Marlowe in his weekly blog on issues in the city. This week: “Competitive Sports.”
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Rob Marlowe: Greater New Port Richey Main Street
New Port Richey Mayor Rob Marlowe in his weekly blog on happening in New Port Richey. This week, the Greater New Port Richey Main Street program, it’s direction and it’s funding.
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Mayor Marlowe: Taking Pride in Our Appearance
New Port Richey Mayor Rob Marlowe in his weekly commentary on city events. This week he’s talking about comments he made at last week’s meeting regarding a possible City dress code, as well as community grants and a coastal cleanup on September 20th.
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Recruiting Businesses – Mayor Rob Marlowe
New Port Richey Mayor Rob Marlowe in his weekly blog on New Port Richey’s progress. This week: Recruiting Businesses.
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Filling the Empty Storefronts – Rob Marlowe
Mayor Rob Marlowe in his weekly blog. This week, “Filling the Empty Storefronts.”
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Rob Marlowe: Downtown Redevelopment Meeting 5/27/14
Read Mayor Rob Marlowe’s blog about the upcoming work session for Tuesday Night.
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OPINION: How Municipalities Can End the Net Neutrality Debate
The definition of a common carrier is a person or company that transports goods or passengers on regular routes at set rates. Last year the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had a tough time with labeling Internet service providers (ISPs) as common carriers, despite the fact that they provide transportation of data at a set rate. […]
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GEEKNOTE: Net Neutrality
GEEKNOTE: Since the beginning of the Internet, it was always agreed that companies would peer with each other at the major interconnects without charging each other for the data transfers. If you were a top level Internet host, like an ATT or Verizon, things worked out just fine. Smaller players always had to buy their […]
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OP-ED: Yacht at the Helm – Florida GOP Legislators Banish NRA Lobbyists
Op-ed – Satire: Florida GOP legislators banish NRA lobbyists; they flee to Texas In an abrupt about-face, conservative Republican legislators banished NRA lobbyists from the Capitol last week after getting what appeared to be divine instructions at a Republican prayer meeting. Shouts of “ban guns!” and “Get lost!” were heard echoing through the Capitol corridors. […]
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GEEKNOTE: FCAT Fiasco
GEEKNOTE: As I write this, we are in the second full week of the Florida Comprehensive Achievement Tests or FCATs as they are commonly known. If you count the pretests done a week before the FCATs started, we are actually into week three of four straight weeks of testing for Florida students. Am I the […]
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GEEKNOTE: Local News
GEEKNOTE: I would like to start off by commending Jon Tietz for creating a new local news site for New Port Richey and the rest of West Pasco. He has his work cut out for him. First a little history: The advent of the Internet and the 24 hour cable news cycle have changed the […]
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