Mark PuenteMarch 30, 2022
5min0
'It’s not unexpected. They just didn’t know what it would be.'
Tag: Mark Puente
Mark PuenteMarch 30, 2022
Janelle Irwin TaylorFebruary 7, 2019
8min274
“Mark is an old-school, brass-knuckles reporter."
Peter SchorschFebruary 7, 20196min568
Puente is a three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee.
Mitch PerryOctober 24, 2017
5min537
Rick Baker is going there. With less than two weeks before Election Day in St. Petersburg’s mayoral race, the former mayor — behind in the public polls for the first time in the campaign — is airing a decidedly negative TV ad questioning the judgment of incumbent Rick Kriseman over his chief aide’s criminal past. “Sunshine” […]
Peter SchorschFebruary 27, 2017
12min301
I really don’t know Kevin King, the Chief of Staff to Mayor Rick Kriseman. I believe — and Kevin can correct me if I am wrong — the last time he and I spoke was in early 2006. It was after my spiral from politics, when I was waiting tables at a now-defunct joint on Fourth Street. If I remember correctly, Kevin […]
Guest AuthorNovember 6, 20137min206
If we’re honest, political watchers like me hate a surprise. We are creatures of prognostication. What does the polling say? Which way are people leaning based on anecdotal information? What is our best guess at the outcome? For election night 2013, the answers to all of those questions broke in favor of Democrats, more or […]