Creative Loafing Tampa Bay keeps reaching into the mailbag, and treading carefully into the comments section. The exercise leaves us increasingly grateful for readers who come to us in print—and especially online—to read the news and thoughtfully respond. Keep it coming, folks (you can email us!), and we’ll keep posting it.
HOAs are ‘out of control’: Tampa Bay voters vent to Florida gubernatorial candidate Paul Renner on ‘Affordability Tour’ (via Facebook)
Pointing out: HOAs are just the property owners. The HOA has a budget that all homeowners get to see. They can come to board meetings and discuss, they can vote the board out if they want. But, guess what? Hardly anyone shows up at the meetings. Very little input is given on the budget. It’s just a lot easier to complain.—Bill Berra
And the governor can fix HOA’s, how? I can see why he’s struggling in the polls.—John Pedraza
We love our HOA—Eileen Stafford
‘This is illegal’: Florida Democrats blast coming congressional redistricting session
I thought the amendents that Florida voters approved back in 2010, was basically to outlaw gerrymandering. yet even with that, doesn’t seem like much has changed. So how is this allowed, even though its clearly illegal under those amendments? Do Democrats have any ideas beyond just shaking their fist—Charles Morgan…