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Mitch PerryFebruary 24, 2016

After months of intense trench warfare last summer over the formation of a police citizens review board, the board’s 11 members convened for the first time as a group Tuesday night at Tampa City Hall. The group selected North Tampa businessman Rasheed Ali Aquil as chairman, and Irene Guy as vice chairman (Former Judge E.J. […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 18, 2016

Last year, I ran the Gasparilla Half-Marathon in Tampa for the first time. The race began perfectly. That morning was just the perfect kind of chilly at the 6 a.m. start. I stepped into the first corral, which felt right because my two previous half-marathons were sub-2. That’s annoying Runner Speak for “under two hours.” […]

Florence SnyderFebruary 23, 2015

“Saturday Night Live” patriarch Lorne Michaels produced an incredibly entertaining one-hour tribute to himself on the occasion of the show’s 40th anniversary. Sad to say it dragged on two and a half hours longer than it should have, because who’s going to say “no” to the founder of one of the entertainment industry’s most enduring […]

Diane RobertsNovember 9, 2014

Florida can congratulate itself on yet another dubious distinction: political parties, corporate patrons, gazillionaires, dark money groups, and the candidates themselves spent $345 million on the 2014 elections — the most expensive in the nation. With that kind of money, India could send four missions to Mars and have enough left over to throw a […]

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Mitch Perry Report for 2.24.16 — Tampa citizens review board finally convenes

Catherine Durkin Robinson: I’ve adopted strategies before running Gasparilla again

Florence Snyder: Follow SNL's rules of comedy, and comedy rules

Diane Roberts: The only mandate from this election is to protect the environment