Central Tampa Trib - Life Not Updated Daily

In theory the neighborhood sections of the Tribune website are a great idea. Localized news coverage. Crime Tracker stats. Smaller stories that might not get a lot of play in an A or B section of the paper.

In execution though, it's been lousy.

Some time ago, the South and Central Tampa sections were going to be combined into one South Tampa Section which was to cover Davis and Harbor Islands, South Tampa, Hyde Park, Downtown, Riverside Heights,West Tampa, Seminole and Tampa Heights and basically everything around and between those areas. It was a horrible idea. Even more horrible to call it just South Tampa. Explain to me how Lowry Park is South Tampa?

Anyway, during this period it was near impossible to find anything online if it was from the Central Tampa area.

Looks like the bad old times are back again. The Trib has been retooling these pages and now half the links don't work, Crime Tracker appears to be totally gone and overall it's as useless as boobies on a bull.

This went on for a week and a half before I emailed Mother Trib. A week later I got an email saying they knew and they're working on it. A week after that it's still FUBAR.

Wouldn't you think they'd fix all this stuff and work all the kinks out - or at least a bulk of them BEFORE going live?

In other news, I posted pictures of the fence on Columbus/Tampa in my previous post. Anyone know anything here?