The official rebuke to the troubled Tampa Bay Academy comes at 5 p.m. today – the time when state regulators said they will suspend the academy's license for what they called "gross mismanagement" of mental health care. Barring a last-minute decision – the academy's executives have appealed to regulators with an improvement plan – the for-profit mental health center in Riverview will no longer be able to provide long-term residential care to children and teenagers who suffer from severe mental illness. ...more

January 9, 2009

Sharon Meyer wants to know what happened to her daughter. The teenager was supposed to get better during her year at Tampa Bay Academy's mental health center. Instead, a child who was disruptive grew more violent and repeatedly escaped from what was supposed to be constant supervision. ...more

December 20, 2008

State investigators ordered the removal of 54 children and teenagers from the Tampa Bay Academy in Riverview after finding the academy failed to protect its residents and staff from "known and obvious dangerous behaviors." ...more

December 18, 2008

State investigators have found "substandard conditions" at the Tampa Bay Academy in Riverview and ordered the removal of 54 children and teenagers from the academy's residential treatment program. ...more

December 17, 2008

Information from official sources, like the CIA World Book of Facts and the U.S. Department of Energy, as well as Gunter Karger, who has appeared on FNN, CNN, radio shows and Editor of The Discovery Letter, indicate some interesting information about our "oil shortage." ...more

July 6, 2008

I wonder if the people of California are paying attention to what Gov. Arnold Schwartzenegger is doing to their economy. For the second time in three years, he has borrowed money to "fix" the deficit out there. This time he is borrowing on lottery proceeds that haven't even materialized yet! ...more

May 30, 2008