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Mitch PerryApril 22, 2015

During her 5 1/2 years as Tampa police chief, Jane Castor been given mostly positive reviews from the media and the community, although high-profile department misdoings have been reported. Nothing, though, has rocked the department more than the revelations published Sunday by the Tampa Bay Times. Reporters Alexandra Zayas and Kameel Stanley wrote that the […]

Associated PressApril 22, 2015

This past August, Miami voters gave a developer permission to lease land on the city’s sparkling downtown waterfront to build a 1,000-foot, hairpin-shaped tourist tower complete with thrill rides, breathtaking observation decks, restaurants and clubs. There was one key promise: No public money would be spent on the $430 million project. Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado […]

Melissa RossApril 22, 2015

Just as President Obama touched down in the Everglades to mark Earth Day (and score some political points around climate change and Rick Scott), a globally recognized thought leader on the emerging green economy had a North Florida announcement of her own. Hazel Henderson of the St. Augustine-based Ethical Markets has released her firm’s 2015 Green […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 22, 2015

On a sun-drenched Wednesday afternoon at the Southbank Riverwalk, former Jacksonville Mayor John Delaney, “here in his capacity as former mayor,” formally endorsed fellow Republican Lenny Curry for mayor. That ended a silence some had thought conspicuous and broke with his long-standing policy of not endorsing in Jacksonville mayoral races, as reported here Tuesday night. Before the event, […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorApril 22, 2015

Former St. Pete Mayor Rick Baker remained silent on the pending Pier debate until Wednesday. Baker, in a column submitted exclusively to SaintPetersblog, overwhelmingly endorsed the St. Pete Design Group’s Destination St. Pete Pier. It’s little wonder Baker opted not to submit his column to the Tampa Bay Times. That newspaper has published two scathing […]

Mitch PerryApril 22, 2015

Three days after the Tampa Bay Times explosive story that blacks in Tampa are being racially profiled and over-policed by law enforcement, Mayor Bob Buckhorn has finally issued a response. The upshot is that he says the Tampa Police Department will implement a new tracking system to monitor “every traffic stop, ticket, and warning issued, […]

Guest AuthorApril 22, 2015

“Severe negative fiscal impact.” For more than five decades, local governments and utility companies have had a very good arrangement that works well for everyone. When a private utility needs to run such things as transmission or cable lines, the utility enters into an agreement with a local government and the agreement allows the privately […]

Mitch PerryApril 22, 2015

Is this a case of bipartisanship running amok in Washington all of a sudden? Not really, but last night the House of Representatives did come together, this time to pass what is being described as a modest piece of energy legislation called the “Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015.” The Senate passed an earlier version, and […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 22, 2015

A new Alvin Brown radio spot is in heavy rotation on black-oriented radio stations in Jacksonville, in an ambitious, $5,000 a week ad buy designed to drive turnout in the black community. The spot contrasts “our Mayor” with “Republican party boss Lenny Curry,” a man who is running a “dirty campaign,” who wants to “turn back the […]

Mitch PerryApril 22, 2015

This past weekend, Nashua, N.H., was the center of the political universe. About 20 announced presidential candidates, probable candidates, and long-shot possibilities were offered 30 minutes each by the New Hampshire Republican Party to present themselves and answer questions from 600 Republicans at the First in the Nation Republican Leadership Summit. In addition to reporting […]

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Tampa Police chief seeks federal review of black bicyclists’ citations, calls news story unfair

1,000-foot Miami tourist tower plans spark political scrum

On Earth Day, Florida’s Ethical Markets releases 2015 “Green Transition Scoreboard”

John Delaney endorses Lenny Curry, cites “Jacksonville Values”

Rick Baker endorses Destination St. Pete Pier design

Bob Buckhorn responds to Tampa Bay Times story on TPD targeting black bicyclists

Sam Ferreri: Raising taxes by any other name

Kathy Castor hails energy-efficiency fix passed by U.S. House

Alvin Brown radio spot: “Lenny Curry is running a dirty campaign”

The voice (of a few) New Hampshire voters at GOP confab