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Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 5, 2018

Hillsborough County now has a funding framework in place to fund half of a new baseball stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays. However, the team has yet to say whether or not they are willing to play ball. The plan would leverage private investment to avoid taxpayer subsidies. If the team rejects the deal, there […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorNovember 29, 2018

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Veteran 10News reporter Noah Pransky is leaving his post at the Tampa Bay-area news station after the end of this year, he told Florida Politics Thursday. For a decade, Pransky has been doing political reporting and investigative work for the station, also called News Channel 10. Pransky said he hasn’t decided where his professional career […]

Joe HendersonSeptember 13, 2018

It is nearly mid-September and the Tampa Bay Rays are playing meaningful baseball games. They still have an outside shot of making the playoffs. Being the wise baseball sage that I am, I certainly saw this success coming after the club ran off all its high-priced talent in an offseason purge that at the time […]

Joe HendersonJuly 10, 2018

I’ll admit something right up front. I had to suppress a gasp Tuesday afternoon when the Tampa Bay Rays unveiled the sticker price for the baseball stadium they propose in Ybor City and hope to play in by 2023. $892 million! That’s about $200 million more than I expected, but I guess it’s roughly in […]

Guest AuthorMarch 7, 2018

The Tampa Bay Rays want a new stadium to replace 28-year-old Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. But like many professional sports teams these days, they aren’t going to a group of investors or running to the bank to finance the multimillion-dollar project. Instead, they are going to the government to see how much money they can […]

Peter SchorschNovember 10, 2017

What better excuse to get out of Tallahassee than … kickball. With less than a week before Friday’s House Majority Event, the upcoming weekend in St. Petersburg will be filled with fun, fun, fun. At 11 a.m. Saturday, the first pitch of the Republican House Majority kickball game takes place on the diamond at Tropicana […]

Mitch PerryOctober 20, 2017

If elected to St. Petersburg City Council, Justin Bean says bringing a grocery store to Midtown is a top priority. “It’s something that we need to focus on now,” the District 6 candidate told reporters in front of City Hall late Thursday afternoon. He had spent the entire day crisscrossing the city at five locations […]

Joe HendersonSeptember 20, 2017

I always suspected Joe Maddon, a smart man, wanted the chance to say out loud that the Tampa Bay Rays new stadium should be built in Tampa. Well, he got his chance Tuesday when he came to St. Pete as manager of the Chicago Cubs. He didn’t hold back. The Tampa Bay Times reported Maddon […]

Joe HendersonJanuary 2, 2017

St. Petersburg is a lovely, vibrant city that is getting better by the day. I love its waterfront and its eclectic, revitalized downtown. So I hope my friends there don’t this personally when I ask: Have your city leaders lost their minds? I refer to the “Baseball Forever’ push to a build a stadium that […]

Mitch PerryJuly 2, 2015

There’s no crying in baseball. Remember that maxim handed down to us via Tom Hanks‘ character to Madonna‘s in 1992’s A League of Their Own? But there is heartbreak. Wednesday night at Tropicana Field, Cleveland Indians pitcher Carlos Carrasco came within one strike of throwing the Indians’ first no-hitter since Len Barker‘s perfect game way back […]

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Ybor City Rays stadium deal has a funding plan, but it might not be enough

Award-winning watchdog reporter Noah Pransky to leave WTSP

Joe Henderson: Tampa Bay Rays are winning, fun. Will it matter?

Joe Henderson: Cost of Rays new stadium: $892 million! Yikes

Demetrius Minor: Sports teams are holding communities hostage over our tax dollars

Hey politicos, escape Tallahassee this weekend for St. Pete kickball, Ribfest

Justin Bean surveys St. Petersburg in his quest to win a City Council seat

Joe Henderson: Maddon is right; build Rays stadium in Tampa

Building a new ballpark in St. Petersburg: Throwing good money after bad

Mitch Perry Report for 7.2.15 — A call to (healthy) arms