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Everyone’s invited to ring in 2012 with Egyptian artifacts, bubbles, interactive games, music videos, a New Year’s bonfire, and a gigantic fireworks extravaganza during First Night St. Petersburg 2012 on Saturday, December 31. Meanwhile, disco divas Gloria Gaynor, Sister Sledge and Maxine Nightingale help St. Petersburg dance into the New Year with champagne toasts and [...]

The Senate Redistricting Committee released new proposed Senate and congressional district maps late Friday — a move staff director John Guthrie said will respond to issues raised at a legislative hearing earlier in December and a follow-up meeting with state elections officials, reports John Kennedy of the Palm Beach Post. … Guthrie said Friday that after hearing questions from [...]

SaintPetersBlog correspondent Matt Lettelier is in Iowa for that state’s caucuses on January 3, 2012.  He has agreed to share with us his notes from the campaign trail.  The morning started with a huge rally outside a grocery store in West Des Moines.  Despite near freezing temperatures and a light rain, over 1,000 supporters came [...]

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus says the delegates to be awarded in Florida’s primary might be divided up proportionally among the candidates, rather than awarded en masse to the winner, thereby diluting the state’s impact on the nominating process. If that happens, the Florida primary winner could be awarded 15 to 20 delegates instead [...]

A Florida appeals court on Friday ruled that long prison sentences given to juveniles that may mean they spend the rest of their lives behind bars are not the same – in these two cases, at least – as actual life sentences without parole, which are now barred for some juveniles, reports David Royse of [...]

The much-anticipated Des Moines Register Iowa Poll will be out Saturday night, according to Taegan Goddard. Public Policy Polling goes back into the field in Iowa tomorrow with final results expected very late Sunday night. Suffolk University will release a daily New Hampshire tracking poll beginning Sunday thru the GOP presidential primary on January 10, 2012.

Rick Scott’s pollster, Tony Fabrizio, is ending 2011 on a precipitous note, taunting former governor Charlie Crist.  According to Times reporter Michael Bender, Fabrizio said: “I would relish the opportunity to run against Charlie Crist. But is the guy who presided over Florida’s economy going into the tank really going to run a campaign when [...]

Patrick Erin Murphy, who is running to replace Allen West in Florida’s 22nd District, has released an online video highlighting some of Allen West’s radical and offensive statements from the past year.  The video includes West’s attacks on progressives, Medicare, President Obama and his supporters, Democrats in general, and gays.    

The beauty of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge will soon sail across the country in the form of a stamp, writes Julia Ochoa. The U.S. Postal Service will place an artist’s rendering of the bridge, complete with an orange sunset and blue water background, on a Priority Mail stamp. The stamp is a digital illustration created [...]