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Tampa Chamber supports bringing Cuban Consulate to Tampa

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Bob Buckhorn may be neutral about the idea, but the business community is all in when it comes to the possibility of Tampa landing a Cuban Consulate. Last week the Board of Directors of the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce unanimously passed a motion to endorse reestablishing a secure Cuban Consulate in the Tampa/Hillsborough County area when relations between the United States and Cuba are appropriately normalized. “The Chamber has been a supporter of re-instituting ties with Cuba, most recently through our…

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U.S., Cuba cite progress on restoring diplomatic ties

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The United States and Cuba claimed progress Friday toward ending a half-century diplomatic freeze, suggesting they could clear some of the biggest obstacles to their new relationship within weeks. After Friday’s talks in Washington, the second round of U.S.-Cuban discussions in the last month, diplomats of both countries spoke positively about fulfilling the promise made by Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro in December to restore embassies in each other’s capitals. The U.S. even held out hope of clinching a…

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Conan O’Brien takes his show to Cuba for a special hour

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On Wednesday’s show, Conan O’Brien will be found in a familiar place: behind a desk. Or, rather, what he describes as a borrowed cafe table. In Havana, Cuba. But for most of the hour (11 p.m. EST on TBS), “Conan” will find its host footloose and fancy-free, airing a talk show from this nearby but isolated island country for apparently the first time since Jack Paar took his own late-night show to Cuba in 1959. “Conan in Cuba,” still being…

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Wall Street Journal: Anybody but Marco Rubio?

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Party affiliation wasn’t the only thing Gov. Charlie Crist switched when he dropped out of the GOP primary and decided to run as independent in the Florida Senate race. Mr. Crist has piqued the ire of many conservatives by flip-flopping on a number of issues in order to ingratiate himself with liberals. In fact, he’s made so many 180s that many Democrats are now considering throwing their weight and money behind him in order to upend the remaining Republican in…

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