Peter SchorschDecember 23, 2022
46min0
Resignations and affordable housing dominated 2022 headlines.
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Peter SchorschDecember 23, 2022
Kelly HayesOctober 10, 2022
5min0
The All for Transportation referendum proposes a 30-year, 1% sales tax in Hillsborough County to fund sweeping transportation and transit improvements throughout the county.
Kelly HayesOctober 6, 20224min0
A new lawsuit seeks to take the measure off the November ballot.
Peter SchorschSeptember 14, 2022
14min0
Legal challenges curtailed their first victory. Can they pull off another win?
Joe HendersonOctober 4, 2020
19min1996
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Mitch PerryOctober 20, 2015
5min169
Last week in Tallahassee, we heard Florida House Speaker Steve Crisafulli say sort of a remarkable thing. Referring to the conflict between his House of Representatives and the Senate that has dominated Florida politics in 2015, he said it was a “extraordinary” that anything gets passed between the two bodies. The latest fissure between the House and […]
Phil AmmannJuly 21, 2015
3min305
Another Florida Tea Party chapter has rejected the proposed solar energy constitutional amendment. On Thursday, Tea Party Manatee unanimously voted against the initiative put forward by Floridians for Solar Choice for the 2016 ballot. The vote came after presentations from lobbyist Danielle Alexandre and Libertarian Adrian Wyllie supporting the amendment, and Tampa 912 Project board member […]
Mitch PerryJanuary 15, 2015
4min196
Eliminate the corporate income tax and end all tax subsidies and exemptions. Do not expand Medicaid. And continue to offer up school choice. Oh, and examine and eliminate “burdensome regulations and licensing laws.” If that’s a modest prescription for what the Florida Legislature should do when it convenes in March, then so be it. The fact […]
Mitch PerryJanuary 5, 2015
5min244
Being the Secretary of the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority doesn’t come with many frills. The main job of this particular position is that he or she will preside over all board meeting in the absence of both the chair and vice chair. In other words, it’s heavily symbolic. But the question of who was […]