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Topsail Hill Preserve State Park. Image via Florida State Parks.

Mitch PerrySeptember 10, 2015
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Supporters of a proposed ballot initiative aimed at allowing individuals and businesses to own or lease solar equipment to generate their own electricity announced Thursday morning that they have collected their first 100,000 signed petitions. Advocates for the measure, calling themselves Consumers for Smart Solar, issued a statement saying that they are well on their way […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 10, 2015
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National security and containing Iran highlight CD 13 Democratic hopeful Eric Lynn’s second short video introducing himself to Pinellas County voters. It comes a day before the House of Representatives may vote on whether to approve the nuclear deal between the P5+1 countries and Iran. Lynn, who worked in Barack Obama‘s Defense Department under three […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 10, 2015
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It’s still the summer (of Trump), with more than four months to go before any registered Republican voter actually goes to the poll. But at what point do the campaigns of Florida favorite sons Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio start growing seriously concerned? Conventional wisdom espoused by political observers in Florida and nationally is Bush could […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 10, 2015
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Yesterday in Brussels, Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Union’s top executive, proposed a plan to move approximately 160,000 refugees coming from war-torn and poverty-stricken nations in the Middle East and Africa in response to other countries to deal with the crisis gripping Europe. Although often called “Europe’s problem,” there is increasing discussion about what the U.S. could, and […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 9, 2015
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St.Petersburg-based state Senator Jeff Brandes has stated his opposition to the Hillsborough County Public Transportation Commission (PTC) for years, so you wouldn’t think that the GOP lawmaker would entertain any discussions about strengthening the besieged agency.  However, PTC Chairman Victor Crist says the two have more in common than Brandes is aware of. “Senator Brandes is […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 9, 2015
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Aiming for a different course after battling two rideshare companies for nearly a year and a half, the Hillsborough County Public Transportation Commission voted Wednesday to propose new regulations it hopes a local legislator can push through Tallahassee next year. As a “good faith effort” showing it’s trying to work with the industry, the board also […]


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