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Mitch Perry Report 3.20.14: Rand Paul calls for investigation of intelligence...
Rand Paul spoke at the University of California at Berkeley last night, which undoubtedly will be a story for days and weeks to come amongst cable news pundits whose single job seems to be to talk...
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Whose History?
A year ago, T.D. Allman’s much-anticipated Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State was published to a mostly positive reception. The 500-plus-page opus, which covers half a millennium...
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After extolling virtues of red-light cameras, Tampa City Council votes to...
(Update- Bob Buckhorn responds. Read below). So much for the convenient narrative that St. Pete hates red-light street cameras and Tampa loves them. The Tampa City Council today voted 4-3 to end the...
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Mitch Perry Report 3.21.14: Expansion of school vouchers totally dead in Tally?
Welcome to the first full day of spring, and the second day of the NCAA College Basketball tournament. There were a couple of significant upsets in yesterday's full slate of games (and the #1-seeded...
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Stand Your Ground debated in Tampa
If Trayvon Martin had beaten up and killed George Zimmerman during their fateful encounter two years ago, he probably would have been charged with two counts of aggravated burglary. That was the...
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New political website focuses on Latino issues in the Sunshine State
There are plenty of websites and blogs devoted to covering Florida politics and public policy. So that fact that that Hispanics now make up 23 percent of the state's population, it shouldn't be too...
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FARE tour highlights St. Petersburg's energy efficient growth
The Florida Alliance for Renewable Energy's 2014 tour landed in Pinellas County on Friday, the fourth of it's five stops as it heads from Miami to the state capitol. With this tour, FARE hopes to...
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Mitch Perry Report 3.24.14 - Hillsborough PTC back in Legislature's crosshairs?
This afternoon, the Transportation & Highway Safety Subcommittee will meet in Tallahassee to discuss legislation that could take away local municipalities' power to regulate limousine services and...
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"Anti-Sharia" law comes before Florida Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday
One of the bills that will be discussed this Tuesday morning before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Tallahassee is Senator Alan Hays' SB 386: Application of Foreign Law in Certain Cases, aka the...
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Mike Fernandez departure ruins Scott campaign's rollout of new anti-Charlie...
The Rick Scott campaign for re-election is about to release a second major television ad in recent weeks, this one attacking Charlie Crist for defending Obamacare on a recent appearance on CNN's State...
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RPOF brings up Alex Sink's immigration comment in racial tit-for-tat
As you might imagine, the Florida Democratic Party have pounced on the story reported by the Miami Herald'sMark Caputo over the weekend that a racially insensitive move by two campaign staffers for the...
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"Uber bill" survives first committee hearing in Tallahassee
A proposal by Tampa Representative Jamie Grant that would shift control of limousine service from local governments up to Tallahassee made its way through its first committee in the Florida House this...
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Mitch Perry Report: 3.25.14: Georgia's insane new gun law
In the Florida Legislature this spring, the only tweaks being considered for the Stand Your Ground law are attempts to allow those who use that defense in court to have more power, not less. But the...
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In State of the City address, Buckhorn tells everyone to support Greenlight...
In his last State of the City Address before his re-election campaign, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn delivered a 40-minute speech this morning from the Tampa Armature Works that emphasized that while the...
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Charlie Crist goes off on Rick Scott in appearance at West Tampa Sandwich Shop
Charlie Crist made a campaign stop in West Tampa Tuesday afternoon, where he ended up going into the kitchen of the West Tampa Sandwich Shop to hobnob and pose for photographs with the cooking staff...
View ArticleJudithanne McLauchlan takes a slap at Tallahassee in her first web ad
Saying "Tallahassee's got it all wrong, " and "Jeff Brandes is part of the problem," SD22 Democratic candidate Judithanne McLauchlan released a web video on Tuesday that got a bit biographical before...
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Mitch Perry Report 3.26.14: Charlie Crist again says he won't debate Nan Rich
Last week in the state Senate, the plan for a major expansion of school vouchers in Florida was killed (at least for the time being), thwarting a House bill that would have made the private school...
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Conservative firebrand Michelle Malkin supports medical marijuana
Blogger and commentator Michelle Malkin will be speaking in Spring Hill next month, giving the keynote address at the Hernando County Republican Party's annual Lincoln Day Dinner, and while...
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Free dental service available this Friday & Saturday in Tampa for first 800...
Whenever health care is discussed in this country (and it's discussed every day), dental care never seems to garner as much coverage as do medical procedures. But the fact is there are huge amounts of...
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Uber's insurance policy not so secret any longer
Uber, the app-based alternative car service that has been trying to break into the Tampa, Miami and Orlando markets over the past couple of years, is pushing hard for their supporters to encourage...
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