* Arnie Bellini donated $40 million to USF to establish the Bellini College of AI, Cybersecurity and Computing. This should be another difference-maker for the ever-evolving USF. The ultimate goal is for USF to be to Tampa what Stanford is to Silicon Valley. Go, Bulls.
* “Absent a ballpark, having a blank canvas there is not necessarily a bad thing.”–Jason Mathis, CEO of the St. Petersburg Downtown Partnership.
* The sign(age) of the times—Honeymoon State Park (Dunedin): “Fight For Nature,” “Protect Our Parks,” “Pickle The Planners.”