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Mitch PerryMarch 5, 2017

As the gavel falls Tuesday on the 2017 Legislative Session, several key issues face Tampa Bay’s legislative delegation. With 40 official members, the Tampa Bay Area Legislative Delegation — sometimes known by the not-so-attractive acronym BALD — represents a vast region of eight different counties. Among the significant topics BALD is looking to see some […]

Mitch PerryMarch 2, 2017

Following the dumping of millions of gallons of raw and partially treated sewage into Tampa Bay, Clam Bayou and other waterways by local governments in 2016, two state lawmakers filed legislation Thursday to incentivize local governments and private utilities to dedicate more resources to improving their sewage infrastructure. St. Petersburg state Senator Jeff Brandes and Pasadena Representative Kathleen Peters‘ […]

Anne LindbergJanuary 18, 2017

State Rep. Kathleen Peters filed two bills Wednesday aimed at helping pay for sewer improvements in St. Petersburg and St. Pete Beach. Peters, a Republican from Treasure Island, asked for $5.5 million in state funding. Of that, $3 million in state funding would be earmarked for St. Petersburg to smoke test sewer pipes for leaks, […]

Staff ReportsOctober 12, 2016

Sewage systems overflowed across Florida because of Hurricane Matthew, and Gov. Rick Scott has ordered the Department of Environmental Protection to find out how to prevent it from happening again. “Florida is famous for our pristine environment, world-class beaches, and award-winning state parks,” Scott said Wednesday in a press release. “We must do all we […]

Joe HendersonSeptember 22, 2016

St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman is angry — MAD, I tell you! — that Gov. Rick Scott is playing politics just because the city’s streets and waterways were covered in sewage following Hurricane Hermine. Um, Mr. Mayor? I suspect you already know this, but you have a lot bigger problems than the Republican governor of […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2016

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is the most latest Florida lawmaker calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to investigate St. Petersburg’s sewage crisis. “It is important that residents know if their City leadership turned a blind eye towards the inevitability of a sewage spill at the cost of the local waterways and beaches,” Rubio writes in a […]

Anne LindbergSeptember 21, 2016

Gov. Rick Scott is guilty of political grandstanding when calling for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to investigate sewage overflows in St. Petersburg, Mayor Rick Kriseman said. “The Department of Environmental Protection is already involved in this issue,” Kriseman said in a written statement. “And given that the governor is singling out St. Petersburg […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterSeptember 21, 2016

Gov. Rick Scott has ordered the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to investigate sewage discharges in St. Petersburg. The Governor’s Office made the announcement Wednesday, just one day after Scott called on the state Department of Health to begin additional testing at the discharge site. While city is responsible for testing in the immediate area, […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 31, 2015

On Monday afternoon, the Jacksonville Transportation, Energy, and Utilities committee considered 2015-313, which would allow a nonexclusive Grant of Easement to support the JEA 42-inch force main river crossing, which conveyed to JEA a utility easement and two temporary construction easements, in, over, and under portions of Metropolitan Park and an Everbank Field parking lot. The […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 31, 2015

The last Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee of August had more deferrals than Washington insiders had Vietnam War deferments. Still, the value is in the journey, not the destination. Here are the highlights. • “Everybody comfortable? I think you can hang meat in here.” – Councilman Bill Gulliford. • A non-exclusive Grant of Easement (2015-313) to […]

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2017 Legislative Session preview: Sewage, transportation, beer issues face Tampa Bay

Jeff Brandes and Kathleen Peters file legislation to limit the release of sewage discharges

Kathleen Peters asks state for millions to help solve sewage problems in St. Pete, St. Pete Beach

Rick Scott orders inquiry into storm-related sewage spills

Joe Henderson: St. Pete’s stinky mess, sewage and politics

Marco Rubio latest lawmaker to call for the EPA to investigate St. Petersburg sewage issue

Rick Kriseman accuses Rick Scott of playing politics with the sewage issue

Rick Scott orders DEP investigation in St. Petersburg sewage discharges

Jax TEU approves JEA sewage line easement

Sewage, sales tax hot topics in Jax Finance Committee on Monday