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Mitch Perry Report for 10.20.15 -Friction begins immediately between House and Senate in special session

Published on October 20, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

Last week in Tallahassee, we heard Florida House Speaker Steve Crisafulli say sort of a remarkable thing. Referring to the conflict between his House of Representatives and the Senate that has dominated Florida politics in 2015, he said it was a “extraordinary” that anything gets passed between the two bodies. The latest fissure between the House and Senate began immediately after the gavel dropped for the beginning of Special Session C, the third special session of the year, and this was geared exclusively towards…

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HART board member questions agency’s advertising with 83 Degrees

Published on October 19, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

Last week, The Tampa Tribune’s Chris O’Donnell reported on how six public agencies in the Tampa Bay area have contracted to pay out more than $200,000 to online magazine 83 Degrees for news and feature stories. The story concentrated on how such sponsored content can be considered problematic if the publisher does not explicitly reveal that such stories are being paid for by a certain entity. The Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) spent $8,000 this year on those stories, and board…

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