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Staff ReportsNovember 29, 2016

State Sen. Tom Lee has filed a proposed constitutional amendment to keep “dramatic increases in annual property tax assessments” in check on vacation homes and other properties. Lee, a Brandon Republican, filed SJR 76 on Monday. “Failure to pass this joint resolution will result in one of the largest tax increases in the history of our state,” […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorFebruary 15, 2016

Gulfport municipal elections are supposed to be nonpartisan, but party politics have come out in the city’s lone City Council contest. Though voters will never see it on a ballot, incumbent Dan Liedtke is a Republican. His challenger, April Thanos, is a Democrat. In a recent mailer, Thanos called Liedtke out as “a Tea Party […]

Daniel TilsonAugust 18, 2014

The excitement so many Florida families feel at the start of a new school year is increasingly tinged, if not outright singed, by burning controversy and conflict over how best to fund, manage and deliver public school education. Like plenty of parents, I keep concerns about our public schools under my hat, leaving our 8-year-old […]

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Tom Lee files constitutional amendment on property taxes

Nonpartisan Gulfport City Council race goes partisan

Daniel Tilson: Florida’s public schools open under siege