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Shock poll shows Greenlight Pinellas struggling to break through
A new poll out today shows that advocates for the Greenlight Pinellas measure in Pinellas County this November need to pump up the volume when it comes to educating the masses about what it's all...
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In-state tuition bill for undocumented students advances in Florida state Senate
Summarizing his bill that would provide reduced in-state college tuition rates for undocumented immigrant students who have attended Florida high schools, Clearwater state Senator Jack Latvala said...
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Sound and fury: SoHo nightlife noise pits residents against club owners
Unlike any other part of the city, the strip of South Howard Avenue between Kennedy and Bayshore known as SoHo has embodied the concept of a livable environment where people can actually see and do a...
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From rundown to reborn
Hyde Park hasn’t always been the tony neighborhood we now know and love. It suffered years of being ignored, chopped up or simply neglected. As a young urban planner, I was around for its fall and...
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Is Hyde Park the Garden District of Tampa Bay?
New Orleans’ Garden District is known for its stately historic homes, old brick patios, brilliant azaleas and canopied streets. Sound familiar? Hyde Park and the Garden District certainly share a...
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They’ll take a Village
Consider this: Interested parties who have been considering purchasing the distressed Channelside property east of downtown Tampa have offered between $5.75 and $7 million in recent months. Meanwhile,...
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Mitch Perry Report 4.10.14 - The truth about how many people lost their...
Let's be real - the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, if you will, has never been popular, based on the polls..And it may never be. But that doesn't give Rick Scott, Barack Obama or anyone else carte...
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Preston Rudie leaving Channel 10 to work for David Jolly
WTSP-TV/10 News Reporter Preston Rudie is leaving the station to work as director for Communications for newly elected Pinellas County Congressman David Jolly. The Emmy Award winning reporter will be...
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Sparks fly at Greenlight Pinellas debate at Tiger Bay Club
The raw feelings between supporters and critics of the Greenlight Pinellas initiative that Pinellas County voters will decide on this November burst out into the open just moments into today's debate...
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Uber bill moves on in state Senate
Although lots of folks have issues with the Hillsborough County Public Transportation Commission (PTC), Tampa area Democratic state Senator Arthenia Joyner apparently isn't one of them."Hillsborough...
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Mitch Perry Report 4.11.14: Duke Energy kicks in $50,000 for Greenlight...
Last week over 100 environmental activists marched in front of Duke Energy's headquarters in downtown St. Petersburg, bringing petitions signed by thousands of Floridians to the energy giant's offices...
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Judithanne McLauchlan says working the grassroots will pay off in SD22 race
Judithanne McLauchlan is a political scientist, so it makes sense that she would seriously study the chances of a Democrat winning the Senate District 22 race before advising that candidate to run. In...
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Rick Baker is an undecided voter when it comes to Greenlight Pinellas
It was a fairly packed ballroom inside the St. Pete Yacht Club on Thursday when the Suncoast Tiger Bay Club hosted a debate on the Greenlight Pinellas initiative. If it at times veered into the realms...
View ArticleRand Paul laughs off suggestion his foreign policy is influenced by Rachel...
Rand Paul and Marsha Blackburn were just two of a host of GOP figures who appeared in New Hampshire this weekend at the inaugural "Freedom Summit," a cattle call for potential Republican 2016...
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Preston Rudie says working for David Jolly was an opportunity he couldn't...
Leaving a successful career as a top television news reporter to work for a newly elected congressman who could be out of a job by the end of this year may sound like bit of a risk. But Preston Rudie...
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Mitch Perry Report 4.14.14 - Uber enters the Tampa Bay area market
Well, so much for going through the Legislature. On Friday, Uber, the popular ride-sharing service, began operating in Tampa and St. Petersburg, and for a limited time, offering their service on their...
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Sean Shaw kicks off stretch run of District 61 campaign
Sean Shaw, candidate for the State House of Representatives District 61, celebrated the opening of his new campaign headquarters by hosting a community Bar-B-Q Saturday. The event served as a launching...
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Pat Kemp to challenge Al Higginbotham in Hillsborough County Commission...
Hillsborough Democrats who thought they had a decent chance of taking the open District 7 countywide seat were crestfallen earlier this year when Tampa City Councilwoman Mary Mulhern dropped out of...
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Castor, Danish & PTA members call for public school equity on PECO funds
“Were here today to report a theft," Tampa-area Democratic Congresswoman Kathy Castor said at the beginning of her press conference this morning in front of Wilson Middle School in South Tampa. "There...
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Tampa Bay Times wins 2014 Pulitzer for Hoe Brown exposé
Reporters Will Hobson and Michael LaForgia of the Tampa Bay Times have taken home the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for their exposé of William "Hoe" Brown, the Tampa Port Authority chairman...
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