Metro I-4 News

Top o’ the fold:

• Tampa Tribune - Wrigley Heiress Is A Rebel With A Cause - The Mars Co. recently bought the Wrigley chewing gum company. Odessa resident Helen Rosburg is the great granddaughter of Wrigley founder William J. Wrigley Jr. Rosburg is a Ybor City tattoo sporting, Harley-riding romance novelist.
• TheLedger.com - City to Aim Cameras at Red-Light Runners - The city of Lakeland is moving full speed ahead with plans to put the brakes on red-light runners, even though the state Department of Transportation isn’t on board.
• Orlando Sentinel - How She Stole The Baby - On March 28, a woman, posing as a nurse, abducted a newborn from Central Florida Regional Hospital. New evidence about the case, including that testimony and details about Jennifer Latham’s comings and goings in the maternity ward, was released by prosecutors to the Orlando Sentinel.

Other Local news:

• Tribune Metro - Tampa Preps For Budget Cuts - City department heads will spend the next three weeks preparing their budgets for next year with an eye toward making cuts. On the list are turning full-time positions into part-time jobs, leaving vacancies unfilled and privatizing some positions.
• Ledger Local - Algae, Weeds Are Anything but Idyllic in W. Haven’s Lake Idyl - Patrick Polarchy isn’t happy about the city’s response to the algae and aquatic weeds that are overgrown in Lake Idyl behind his house.
• Sentinel Local News - Home values keep sinking - Local home values are still in the toilet, and the flushing continues.

Opinion and Editorial:

• Tribune Editorial - Florida Back To The Future: Build Prisons, Cut Schools - The Miami Herald’s analysis probably said it best: The big winners in the new state budget are prison builders; the big losers are public schools… Talk about getting your priorities wrong.
• Ledger Editorial - Wreck Of The Old CSX - When the Florida Legislature’s regular session ended Friday, the CSX train did not arrive. Florida Senate Majority Leader Daniel Webster wanted so desperately to be the celebrated engineer who barreled a made-in-secret transportation deal through the legislative session. In doing so, he would bring commuter rail home to the Orlando area and his home district.
• Sentinel Editorial - It falls to Crist and lawmakers to fight and save commuter rail - Commuter rail’s not dead.

The Sentinel suggests a special session to continue discussions.