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Rick Scott strikes out again in the courts on drug testing Floridians
The Supreme Court of the United States today rejected Governor Rick Scott's appeal of a lower court ruling that declared his executive order to drug test state employees unconstitutional. The move was...
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Growler bill advances in Florida Senate despite deep opposition from Tampa...
A Senate committee today passed revised legislation that would allow Florida craft breweries to legally sell 64-ounce growlers, but at too high a cost in the opinion of many of those brewers who...
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Mitch Perry Report 4.22.14: Happy Earth Day
Welcome to the 44th anniversary of Earth Day. Although the biggest issue of the day when it comes to the global health of the planet remains climate change, most experts will tell you not enough is...
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Activists protest PNC shareholder meeting in Tampa over Mountaintop Removal
Earlier this month, JPMorgan Chase updated its environmental policy and revealed that it will be ending its financial relationships with Mountaintop Removal (MTR) coal-mining companies, joining Wells...
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Advocacy group says poll shows Floridians don't want minimum fares for cab...
Tampa and two other Florida municipalities, Miami and Orlando, currently mandate minimum fares for limousines. That law is being challenged in Hillsborough County by an advocacy organization which...
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Mitch Perry 4.23.14: Oh thank heaven? 7-Eleven comes to Ybor City
There are lots of areas in Tampa where redevelopment is on the rise, North Hyde Park being one. But one area that remains problematic is Ybor City, where I happen to live and work. The historic...
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Alan Cohn blasts Dennis Ross on immigration, foreign policy and lifetime...
Nobody is paying too much attention to the CD15 race just yet, and Alan Cohn is fine with that — for now. The award-winning television journalist is running for office for the first time in his life,...
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CharlieCrist.com/espanol goes live
On the same day that Rick Scott's half-a-million dollar television and online ad goes live in the Tampa Bay area and three other major media markets across the state, his likely Democratic challenger...
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MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry to be Eckerd College commencement speaker next...
Eckerd College announced this morning that Melissa Harris-Perry, a political science professor and host of a weekend public affairs program on MSNBC, will be giving the commencement address to Eckerd...
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Castor, Pallone fret about NIH cuts
When Congress invoked the sequester in 2012, one of the big losers was funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). There were 722 fewer grants offered in FY 2013 than in FY 2012, including...
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Ready, Set, Shoot?
The city of Tampa may soon play host to the largest Hollywood film production in its history. But unless the Legislature builds it, they — the producers — may not come. “It” is a tax incentive program...
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Mitch Perry Report 4.24.14: Beverly Young returns
The best local political story of the year may have been written in its first week, when the Tampa Bay Times' Andrew Meacham reported on the late Bill Young's "other family." That would be the one...
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Obamacare on a roll? New Jersey Dem visiting Tampa calls ACA "tremendously...
The conventional wisdom for months now has held that the Affordable Care Act, a/k/a Obamacare, is a political loser and the future downfall of Democrats everywhere in the midterms this November. But...
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Judy Genshaft says "we're willing to listen" regarding USF students'...
One of the largest student-led petition drives in Florida university history has taken place on the USF campus in Tampa, initiated by the USF chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. More than...
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Politicians & Bollywood stars welcome IIFA weekend
The festivities leading up to Saturday night's International Indian Film Academy Awards kicked into full gear on Thursday, and you'd have to be the most jaded of observers not to pick up on the...
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Mitch Perry Report 4.25.14: Bill Nelson's dilemma
You'd think after being locked out of the governor's mansion for 16 long years, Florida Democrats would be united this year as they contemplate ousting a man whom so many hold in contempt, Rick Scott....
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Hillsborough Democrat bashes BOCC for failing to back Sharpe on craft beer...
Although there may be solid arguments in favor of Florida's three-tier system of distributing beer, you don't have to be a craft beer aficionado to be suspicious about the way the Florida Beer...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren is not about to endorse Hillary Clinton (yet)
For all those Democrats out there not prepared just quite yet to anoint Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee for president two years out, the only other Democrat who is even in the discussion...
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Stargel bill that hurts Florida microbreweries goes national on "The Ed Show"
Lakeland Republican Senator Kelli Stargel's bill that would require microbreweries in the state selling more than 2,000 kegs per year of their own brew to distribute their bottled and canned products...
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Mitch Perry Report 4.28.14: The last days in Tallahassee
Today begins the last week of the legislative session in Tallahassee (though rumors persist that there may be a special session called to deal with casino gambling sometime later this year). One of...
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