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Mitch PerryFebruary 18, 2015

Major League Baseball spring training camps have or will soon open up everywhere in the next week. In Tampa, that means pitchers and catchers for the New York Yankees report later this week, with the rest of the roster due next Wednesday. And that includes Alex Rodriguez, the disgraced star returning to the team after a year-long suspension, […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 17, 2015

Jeb Bush took to his Facebook page on Tuesday to denounce the executive actions Barack Obama took last November that were rebuked by a Texas judge (appointed by George W. Bush, when he was governor) Monday night. He wrote: Last year, the president overstepped his executive authority and, in turn, hurt the effort toward a […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 17, 2015

Jeb Bush took to his Facebook page on Tuesday to denounce the executive actions Barack Obama took last November that were rebuked by a Texas judge (appointed by George W. Bush, when he was governor) Monday night. He wrote: Last year, the president overstepped his executive authority and, in turn, hurt the effort toward a […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 17, 2015

FDOT spokeswoman Kris Carson tells the Tampa Bay Times’ Rick Danielson that Tampa City Council District 6 candidate Jackie Toledo did not have permission to film her campaign ad inside a construction zone along Interstate 275. “You just can’t go into a construction zone and film a commercial without letting DOT know,” Carson said Tuesday morning. […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 17, 2015

FDOT spokeswoman Kris Carson tells the Tampa Bay Times’ Rick Danielson that Tampa City Council District 6 candidate Jackie Toledo did not have permission to film her campaign ad inside a construction zone along Interstate 275. “You just can’t go into a construction zone and film a commercial without letting DOT know,” Carson said Tuesday morning. […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 17, 2015

The pent-up demand among Floridians to have a solar power option is strong. If you doubt that, consider that just a month into announcing their campaign, Floridians for Solar Choice organizers have announced they already have gathered 100,000 signatures to get a constitutional amendment on the 2016 ballot, and say nearly 1,000 people have joined […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 17, 2015

They won’t back down. That was the theme of a press conference held Tuesday morning in Tampa by immigration activists, reacting to an order issued late Monday by a federal judge that temporarily will block a federal immigration program that would have potentially shielded millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. “We’re here to give the […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 17, 2015

They won’t back down. That was the theme of a press conference held Tuesday morning in Tampa by immigration activists, reacting to an order issued late Monday by a federal judge that temporarily will block a federal immigration program that would have potentially shielded millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. “We’re here to give the […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 17, 2015

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Although Democrats Bob Buckhorn and Rick Kriseman are close political allies, they definitely don’t always share the same public policy prescriptions. Throughout much of 2014, there was a demand among progressives in Florida and across the nation to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. The minimum wage in Florida currently is $8.05 an […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 17, 2015

Well, I hope everyone enjoyed Presidents Day. What? You didn’t get the day off? Well, hey, it is a federal holiday, but other than students and government workers (and a few folks we know in the private sector), it was pretty much a working Monday for the rest of us. Not for Congress, though. As […]

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Mitch Perry Report for 2.18.15 — Haters gonna hate (on A-Rod)

Jeb Bush says President Obama “overstepped” on immigration executive action

Jeb Bush says President Obama "overstepped" on immigration executive action

FDOT says Jackie Toledo didn’t get permission to make ad on I-275

FDOT says Jackie Toledo didn't get permission to make ad on I-275

Floridians for Solar Choice report big start to put homegrown power measure on 2016 ballot

Tampa activists say they’re not intimidated by Texas judge’s ruling on immigration relief

Tampa activists say they're not intimidated by Texas judge's ruling on immigration relief

At NAACP forum, Tampa City Council candidates talk livable wages, red-light cameras and body cameras for police

Mitch Perry Report for 2.17.15 — Will the GOP fold on DHS funding?