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Mitch Perry Report for 11.20.16 — Bill de Blasio’s big moment?

Published on November 21, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

In New York City today, Mayor Bill de Blasio is expected to give a “major speech” on the presidential election’s impact on the city. De Blasio wants help from the feds to pay for the additional security costs in dealing with the fact that the president-elect’s home is literally in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. The NYPD has already put about an additional 50 officers on each shift during daytime hours to manage the flow of traffic in the immediate…

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Eckerd President joins other university leaders in calling on Donald Trump to speak out against violence

Published on November 18, 2016 in 2017 by Mitch Perry

Eckerd College President Donald Eastman has joined 109 other college and university presidents around the country urging Donald Trump to condemn acts of violence that have sporadically erupted since his stunning Electoral College victory for president 10 days ago. The Southern Poverty Law Center has counted more than 400 cases of hateful harassment or intimidation in the U.S. since Election Day. And in a video statement released Friday, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said FBI statistics for 2015 showed a 67 percent increase in hate crimes against Muslim Americans. Hate crimes against Jewish people,…

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Two letters show mounting concerns over the St. Pete’s wastewater infrastructure

Published on October 7, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

The City of St. Pete continues to face mounting criticism over an early August wastewater dump of 31 million gallons of raw and partially treated sewage into Clam Bayou, Tampa Bay and the Eckerd College campus following a review of the city’s wastewater system. Two separate letters addressed to Mayor Rick Kriseman ask the city to conduct an independent review, not an internal one. “It became clear that this is not the independent inquiry that the City Council requested and…

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