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Staff Writer, Tampa Bay Times

Bill Varian writes about Hillsborough County government and politics. He joined the Times in 1999 as a crime reporter in Citrus County after five years of writing about growth-related issues and city hall for the Tallahassee Democrat. A 1990 graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., he also has worked at newspapers in Augusta, Ga., and Burlington, N.C.

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Rob Turner
dicho el Julio 18, 2012 en an email interview with the Tampa Bay Times:

The property appraiser's budget "is $1 million less today than when I took office 16 years ago."

Por Joshua Gillin • Agosto 10, 2012
Sam Rashid
dicho el Julio 26, 2010 en in a mailer.:

The sales tax increase, if approved, will cost taxpayers "up to $300 million per year, in perpetuity, to finance a rail system for the City of Tampa."

Por Bill Varian • Agosto 28, 2010
Josh Burgin
dicho el Agosto 20, 2010 en in a mailer.:

Property taxes "are now 18% higher than when (Mark Sharpe) first took office."

Por Bill Varian • Agosto 20, 2010
Mark Sharpe
dicho el Julio 20, 2010 en a campaign mailer:

"Mark Sharpe has lowered property taxes by 17 percent."

Por Bill Varian • Agosto 19, 2010
David Caton
dicho el Noviembre 5, 2009 en a mass e-mail:

If voters agree in November to approve a one-cent sales tax increase, that will give "Hillsborough County the highest sales tax of all Florida counties."

Por Bill Varian • Junio 7, 2010