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Associated PressMay 8, 2015

To judge them solely by their travels during the past month, you might think Jeb Bush has already plunged into the general election and Hillary Rodham Clinton has a serious fight on her hands for the Democratic nomination. The conventional thinking, though, is quite the opposite: He’s got a real primary race to settle first […]

Mitch PerryMay 8, 2015

Hillsborough County Commissioners (and Administrator Mike Merrill) are gung-ho on having the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) explore an opportunity to move its facility into downtown Tampa. There it could be a part of Jeff Vinik‘s grand plans to redevelop the Channelside area, even though there are serious questions about how productive such a move […]

Associated PressMay 7, 2015

In the traffic jam that is the Republican presidential race, Sen. Marco Rubio stands out — and not just for his youth and blue-collar, Cuban-American biography. Rubio has issued the most detailed economic agenda to aid the middle class, anchored by a book on countering the wage stagnation that has exacerbated inequality between the rich […]

Mitch PerryMay 7, 2015

The enormously wealthy and powerful Charles and David Koch, better known as the Koch Brothers, have become an increasingly influential team in recent years as they spend their money on causes (and candidates) they support. But in progressive, and even independent circles, their name has been invoked as representing something almost sinister polluting the body […]

Mitch PerryMay 7, 2015

In Las Vegas on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton came out strongly on the issue of immigration, saying she wants to ensure that undocumented immigrants can gain full citizenship under a reform of the patchwork system and the limited protections President Obama has put in place in the meantime. “This is where I differ with everybody on the Republican […]

Mitch PerryMay 7, 2015

There are two key pieces of news coming out of the latest WMUR Granite State Poll on the 2016 candidates for president released Wednesday. One is that most New Hampshire primary voters aren’t close to deciding on who they’ll vote for in the first primary next year. Only 5 percent of likely Republican voters tell pollsters […]

Mitch PerryMay 7, 2015

As has been mentioned by reporters for months, Republicans thinking about being president have picked up on the income inequality mantle that Democrats like Elizabeth Warren have championed for years. By that, I mean they use the words “economic inequality.” Beyond that, it’s not clear what they are suggesting to overcome it (Marco Rubio has been […]

Mitch PerryMay 6, 2015

Jeb Bush says the key to lifting Baltimore from its decades-long torpor is the type of education reform that he practiced in Florida when he was governor from 1998 to 2006. In an op-ed in Wednesday’s Chicago Tribune, he uses the same language other conservatives have during the past two weeks, and longer — that […]

Mitch PerryMay 6, 2015

The Iowa caucuses are likely to be dominated by social conservatives, so nobody is expecting Jeb Bush to excel in the first presidential contest in 2016. But seventh place? That’s where he is in a new Quinnipiac survey released Wednesday morning. Once again, neighboring Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin leads in Iowa: In this poll […]

Mitch PerryMay 6, 2015

According to a story by Waveney Ann Moore in Wednesday’s Tampa Bay Times, it’s looking good for advocates of Pier Park to be the chosen design to finally replace the aging iconic inverted Pier in downtown St. Petersburg. “I’ve had more calls in support of Pier Park than anything,” City Councilman Darden Rice says. “It […]

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Tim Robinson shows divers where to cut along the Lionfish while on the Lady Go Diver in the Intracoastal near Deerfield Beach, Fla., Saturday, August 31, 2024. (Lee Ann Anderson/Fresh Take Florida)

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Mitch Perry Report for 5.8.15 — The MOSI-USF Football stadium dilemma

Marco Rubio tax plan shows challenge of GOP wage-stagnation fight

American Bridge’s new report details Koch Brothers’ influence in Florida

Kathy Castor embraces Hillary Clinton’s new stance on immigration reform

WBUR poll shows Marco Rubio with top favorability ratings in New Hampshire

Mitch Perry Report for 5.7.15 — On economic issues, is Mike Huckabee more in synch with GOP voters?

Jeb Bush says raising education standards is key to improving Baltimore

Jeb Bush falling, Marco Rubio rising in new Iowa poll

Mitch Perry Report for 5.6.15 — St. Pete Pier politics, part 23