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Kyle Cockream dismisses Rudy Giuliani's review of Uber's background check policy
While Hillsborough County officials continue to blast ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft for what they allege are flimsy background check policies, they could always do what the city of Houston...
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Medical Marijuana: How do you want your Weed?
“I don’t usually do this,” Ricky Stoobbins told me from his car’s driver’s seat as he made his way through downtown St. Petersburg with a potential ten year prison sentence worth of reefer on him. “I...
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Just hours left to early vote in Florida
Early voting ends this afternoon at 4 p.m., and then it will be left to those old-school voters who still opt to participate on Election Day to decide Florida's gubernatorial election. Hillsborough,...
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Mitch Perry Report 11.3.14: Medical marijuana looks to be a loser on Election...
For supporters of getting medical marijuana legalized in Florida, the best news you heard this weekend was probably John Morgan's remarks to the Tampa Bay Times's Stephen Nohlgren on Saturday that as...
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Kathy Castor agrees with Congress' low standing
Tomorrow all 435 seats in Congress are up for election. One can only surmise that once elected, they'll actually end up working on the people's business in Washington. That certainly isn't the case...
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HART board moves to make interim CEO Katharine Eagan permanent
Although all eyes regarding local transit are focused this week on the Greenlight Pinellas measure on Tuesday's ballot in Pinellas County, there's been quite a lot of action going on this year with...
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Pam Bondi defends her fight against the feds at an Ybor City rally
Two Florida GOP rock stars, Pam Bondi and Jeb Bush, made their way to Tampa's Ybor City Monday afternoon in a last bit of campaigning before Tuesday's general election. Appearing at the Columbia...
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Mitch Perry Report 11.4.14: Election Day is here
There's little more to be said about the races and issues before Floridians on this Election Day. The polls are open throughout the state and will be until 7 p.m. tonight, but the first statewide vote...
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Kennedy Bridge in downtown Tampa closed due to crane accident
"The best thing we can say is no one was hurt," began Mayor Bob Buckhorn in addressing reporters today, hours after a cable on a drilling rig aboard a barge snagged the Kennedy drawbridge span around...
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Crist says he doesn't think there'll be a recount tonight
Perhaps mindful that Rick Scott had told the press corps to show up at 11:45 a.m. today for a meet-and-greet in a West Tampa Cuban restaurant, but in fact showed up nearly 40 minutes earlier and was...
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Bill Nelson gets indignant about big money in politics
Bill Nelson isn't very happy about the unlimited money that poured into the Florida gubernatorial race, particularly by individuals like Rick Scott, who wrote himself a check for $12. 8 million of his...
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Ed Narain is looking forward toTallahassee
There were some close races in Hillsborough County on Tuesday night, but the House District 61 race wasn't one of them. That's where Democrat Ed Narain defeated a write-in candidate easily, and will...
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Greenlight Pinellas gets crushed at the polls
There have been two major transit tax referenda in the Tampa Bay area in the past four years, and both times the measures have been resoundingly defeated by the voters. The polls have only been...
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Dwight Dudley tops Bill Young in the bitter HD68 race in St. Petersburg
Taking a prize for one of the nastier races in Tampa Bay area politics this fall had to be the House District 68 race in St. Petersburg between Democratic incumbent Dwight Dudley and his GOP rival,...
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April Griffin beats back Dipa Shah, while Sally Harris stuns everyone in...
April Griffin — the occasionally combative, frequently controversial Hillsborough County School Board member opposed in her bid for a third term this year by a raft of contenders as well as her bête...
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Jeff Brandes handily defeats Judithanne McLauchlan
There were great expectations a year ago when USFSP political science professor Judithanne McLauchlan announced that, disgusted by some of state Senator Jeff Brandes' votes, particularly the one...
View ArticleAl Higginbotham beats Pat Kemp by less than 1 percent in Hillsborough County...
In a very tight race for the County Commission seat for District 7 in Hillsborough County, Pat Kemp lost to Republican Al Higginbotham by .9 percent Tuesday night. At a watch party at Ella’s Americana...
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Mitch Perry Report 11.5.14 - Democratic Party devastation in the Sunshine State
Good morning, fellow Floridians. Ready for another four more years of Rick Scott as Governor? Well, ready or not, it is the reality in the Sunshine State - as is the same GOP Cabinet of Pam Bondi as...
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Ultimate spin? Democratic leaning pollster says political landscape "heavily"...
While Democrats contemplate their hangover after the GOP took control of the U.S. Senate last night for the first time in eight years, along comes Tom Jensen, Director of Public Policy Polling, to...
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Libertarian Adrian Wyllie underperforms in his run for governor
At the Libertarian Party of Florida's statewide convention in Tampa last spring, Vice Chairman Alex Snitker exhorted his fellow Libertarians when he shouted out to them that the placement of Amendment...
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