Climb into a time machine and set the way-back button to four years ago: Destination? City Hall.

St. Petersburg City Council members battled then-Mayor Bill Foster over an eviscerated budget with a $10 million fiscal hole to plug, the result of several years of fiscal havoc brought on by the Great Recession. The council reluctantly raised property taxes to cover the gap.
    

As St. Petersburg prepares for the long Memorial Day weekend, the city has announced a number of closings and a bit of a shuffle in trash collection dates.

       

For nearly a decade, a 14-acre patch of land has lain vacant, as city planners' dreams of attracting good-paying jobs to Midtown vanished with the Great Recession and the long, slow recovery.

Originally named the Dome Industrial Park, Mayor Rick Kriseman rebranded the parcel along 22nd Street from Sixth Avenue S to Interstate 275 as "Commerce Park" and made delivering on the long-delayed promise of economic development a priority.      

You didn't think the helpful folks at St. Pete Bike Co-op were gonna let the League of American Bicyclists' National Bike Month close out without one last shindig, did you? The nonprofit exists, after all, not only to promote biking, but also to help folks get the equipment they need, and keep it in great condition in order to get the most out of it.