Keynote Speaker

Paul C. Tash Chairman and CEO Tampa Bay Times/ Times Publishing Co. The Inside Story…How a 30-year project happened overnight West Hillsborough Times | Est. 1884 Local, Regional & State Reach

Source: AAM Audits Sunday Times circulation in Tampa Bay

1986 2015

1 dot = 20 Sunday Times Sources: 1996 ABC Audit, 2015 AAM Audit Tampa Edition | 1987 tbt* launch | Weekly Edition | 2004

FREE! PUBLISHED FRIDAYS BY THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES T * LIVING Love traffic? We didn’t think so. Now you can get the 411 by dialing 511. page 7 .tampabay.com C’mon, Ivan, we’re tired of How does your pay stack up? www the Weather Channel. page 7 page 29

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2004 2525 reasons Tampa Bay loves football PLUS: « The only games Ronde Barber wants to watch COVER STORY | PAGE 5 AND: Coming soon to TV: All Bucs, all the time STORY | PAGE 81

Boy, this Roomba cleaning thing really sucks. page 35 Hey ya, hangin’ with OutKast in Miami. page 68 ZIPPY NEWS FOR TIME-CHALLENGED ADULTS tbt* launch | Daily Edition | 2006

Times buys Tribune Sunday Times Tampa Edition Circulation 1985-2016

200,000

180,000 179,394 160,000 140,000 120,000 100,000 80,000 60,000 40,000 20,000 4,346 0

1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015

Sources: 1985-2011 ABC Audit, 2012-2015 AAM Audit Times to print Tribune Announcements - Times buys Tribune Announcements - Times buys Tribune Announcements - Times buys Tribune Announcements - Times buys Tribune Announcements - Times buys Tribune Moving Ahead Together – One For All What’s Next Moving Ahead Together – One for All

Your favorite writers and the local news you love, now in one place. Tampa Bay population trends

Source: UF, Bureau of Economic and Business Research, Population Bulletin FPS 159, Released June 2011 Retail Sales in Tampa Bay | 2015

Source: Florida Department of Revenue Retail Sales in Tampa Bay | 2015

Source: Florida Department of Revenue Times circulation among the nation’s top newspapers | Pre-acquisition

Source: 2014 AAM Audits Times circulation among the nation’s top newspapers | Post acquisition

Source: 2015 AAM Audits What’s Next

FLORIDA’S BEST NEWSPAPER tampabay.com SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 | $1.50

A Tampa Bay Times investigation First of he restaurant’s chalkboard makes two parts claims as you enter from the valet a parking lot. At the hostess stand, cheery board reads, “Welcome to local, farm- fresh Boca.”

Farm ttuces grow Brown butcbutcherher paper tops tables and le marketmarket case, I see along a wooden wall. In a ssmallmall from somewhere. canned goods from here and produce from Mexicoexico and BY LAURA REILEY Check the small print: blackberriblackberrieses from M Times Food Critic blueberries from California. honest,honest,” Boca With the tagline “Local, simple and rst wave of farm- to fable Kitchen Bar Market was among the fi r- to-table restaurants iinn Tampa Bay to make the asseasser- Once upon a time, sourcing local possible.” I’ve tion “we use local products whenever s are right ttheherere on became all the rage at restaurants. reviewed the food. My own wordwords ul and, most importantly, The moral: Some claims on menus are their website: “local, thoughtfthoughtful delicious.” down to the beef. little more than fairy tales. But I’d been had, from the snapper at International It’s not just Boca. At PePelagialagia Tratratttoria es from the Indian Plaza, the “Florid“Floridaa blue crab”crab” comcomes Ocean. houts “Deathth Mermaid Tavern in SeminoleSeminole HeHeightsights shoutss “Dea tends cheese curds to Pretenders” on its menu, but pre Florida. are homemade and shrimp are from Don CeSar, chefs At Maritana Grille aatt the LLoewsoews who doesn’t sell to claim to get pork from a farmer them. story about over- This is a story we are alalll being fed. A scascatttering broodbroodss alls, rich soil and JoJohnhn Deere tractors y animanimaals living of busy chickens. A story about health g heavy and eear-ar- happy lives, heirloom tomatomatoestoes hangin ging caves nest arartisanstisans rolling wheels of cheese into aginga ca nearby. y tales. A More often than not, those things are fair willing to capicapitatal-l- long lislistt of Tampa BaBayy restaurants are ize on our hunger for the story.

. See FARM TO FABLE, 6A

MADDEN | Times ILLUSTRATIONS BY STEVE

Boca Kitchen Bar Market Mermaid Tavern Pelagia Trattoria

LAURA REILEY | Times Captain Kirk Morgan is listed as a supplier of red snapper and ALEXANDRA ZAYAS | Times Pelagia Trattoria grouper. The St. Petersburg commercial fisherman says he is The menu claims all fish are fresh and free of The menu in February listed Three Suns Ranch wild not licensed to sell direct to restaurants, has never sold Boca chemical additives. The fish featured in the fish and boar ragout. Three Suns owner Keith Mann said no: any fish and only catches sheepshead, jacks and mullet. chips dish is frozen, chemically treated pollock. “We’ve never sold to them.”

COMING NEXT SUNDAY Tampa Bay farmers markets are lacking in just one thing: local farmers. PART 2: FARMERS MARKETS Also available now at tampabay.com/farmtofable.

Game 3: Lightning-Red Wings Pope flies migrants The Bolts lead 2-0 as the playoff series continues Awaiting fate, Hughes has at 7 tonight in Detroit (Fox Sports Sun). Sports, 1C Oldsmar in Rays park mix? to Rome with him Its northern location offers the prospect of no regrets for Capitol flight Pinellas and Hillsborough tax dollars, but lacks the appeal of an urban center. Local, 1B His surprise help for 12 Syrians comes on a BY BEN MONTGOMERY what you think,” shouted the visit with asylum seekers on a Greek island. Firm accused of faking bids Times Staff Writer man on the stage, Cenk Uygur. WASHINGTON — The pro- “That beautiful house over there HOA Problem Solutions already is under investi- Washington Post The pope’s visit to the Greek testers gathered under a gray has been corrupted. But we’re gation for alleged deed scams. Business, 1D MYTILENE, Greece — For island of Lesbos had already sky in front of Union Station. here today to take it back!” the hundreds of thousands of been emotional, provocative They wore ball caps and skull- The crowd, which had grown desperate migrants who have and deeply symbolic before he TODAY’S WEATHER INDEX caps and stocking caps and yar- to about 2,000, roared with made landfall on this verdant gave it a dramatic and unex- Windy and dry Arts 2-3L mulkes and carried signs that enough earnest sincerity to jewel in the Aegean Sea over pected twist in its closing min- Astrology 4F said OV ERTURN CITIZENS make a skeptic verklempt. Doug Hughes the past year, there had been utes on Saturday. Books 5-6L UNITED and Democracy, not The plan for this massive faces up to Business 1D only two ways off the island: But when he boarded his 8a.m.Noon 4p.m.8p.m. DOLLA CRA CY and Stop Legal- weekslong experiment in civil 10 months a ferry bound for a new life Alitalia return flight along 65° 74° 79° 74° Classified F ized Bribery. One hundred or disobedience to protest big in prison Crossword 5P, F deeper in Europe or a depor- with 12 Syrians — including six 0% chance of rain so had marched here from the money’s influence in politics when he’s tation order that led straight children — who had lost their More, back page of Sports Editorials 2P Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, 140 — called Democracy Spring — sentenced back across the sea. houses to bombs, the gesture Vol. 132 No. 268 Letters 2P miles through wind and cold was launched four years before. on Thursday But that was before Sat- offered the most vivid illustra- © Times Publishing Co. Lottery 2A and rain. A few hundred more But the spark that lit the keg, for flying his urday, when Pope Francis tion yet in the pope’s quest to Travel 4L had just finished learning how many here agreed, was a lowly gyrocopter to whisked in and pioneered a prick Europe’s conscience over to be arrested peacefully. mail carrier from the Tampa the Capitol. third: a ride with him on a jet its treatment of refugees. “That house over there, Con- Bay area who did something so bound for Rome. . See POPE, 15A gress, they don’t give a damn . See HUGHES, 13A Feds slam failing schools in Pinellas Failure factories Failure factories The Inside Story…How a 30-year project happened overnight