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It’s dangerous to be a pedestrian in Pinellas County, traffic report says

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Pinellas County has the highest fatality rate for pedestrians involved in traffic crashes among urbanized Florida counties, according to an annual report of traffic crashes. The 2016 Traffic Crash Trends and Conditions Report was presented Wednesday to Forward Pinellas. It also showed Pinellas with a pedestrian fatality rate that was 80 percent higher than the national average over the five-year period from 2011-2015. When compared with Palm Beach, Orange, Miami-Dade, Hillsborough and Broward counties, Pinellas ranked No. 1 in pedestrian…

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Question of recount, like Seminole council race, is up in the air

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While most eyes were watching Florida’s close presidential race, the City of Seminole had its own nail-biter in the race for City Council. By the end of the night, incumbent Thom Barnhorn was leading with 4,544 votes, or 34.66 percent of the total 13,111 votes. Incumbent Jim Quinn was in second place with 4,299 votes, or 32.79 percent, and challenger Tom Christy was in third place with 4,268 votes, or 32.55 percent. The close race between Quinn and Christy — with…

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Incumbents elected in Dunedin; tight races in Largo, Seminole

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Dunedin Mayor Julie Ward Bujalski and commission member Heather Gracy were re-elected in Dunedin. In Largo, incumbent Curtis Holmes held a slim lead over challenger Neil McMullen. In a tight Seminole race, incumbents Thom Barnhorn and Jim Quinn held slender leads over challenger Tom Christy, who was making his seventh try for a seat on the council. The two top vote-getters will take office. Dunedin’s Bujalski was returned to office with about 57 percent of the vote to defeat vice…

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Carol Cook, Joanne Lentino victorious in Pinellas School Board races

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Carol Cook and Joanne Lentino won the two open seats on the Pinellas County School Board. The races for both the District 1 and District 5 seats centered on the poor performance of five schools in southern St. Petersburg. Lentino, her opponent Matt Stewart, and Cook’s opponent Eliseo Santana had contended new blood and new ideas were needed on the board to turn those schools around. Cook said the turnaround had already begun because the district had put programs and…

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Incumbents rule in Pinellas House District 65, 67, 69 races

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Republican incumbents retained their seats in State House Districts 65, 67 and 69. Chris Sprowls defeated Democrat Bernard “Bernie” Fensterwald to earn a second term in the HD 65 seat. Sprowls, from Palm Harbor, served as a prosecutor in the Pinellas County State Attorney’s Office until this past summer when he left to go into private practice. Sprowls is expected to serve as Speaker of the House for 2021-2022. Chris Latvala, the son of Republican Sen. Jack Latvala, decisively defeated…

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Charlie Justice wins second term on Pinellas County Commission

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Democrat Charlie Justice faced down a challenge from first-time candidate Mike Mikurak to win a second term on the Pinellas County Commission. Justice took the lead early in the evening with about 53. 5 percent of the vote and never looked back. Voters were treated to two distinctly different styles in the race for the District 3 seat, which was voted on countywide. Republican Mikurak, who was making his first run for public office, was on the attack early on…

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Charlie Crist, Rick Kriseman, Alex Sink get out the vote

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With less than a day to go before the polls open for the last time, former Gov. Charlie Crist and St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman spent some time Monday urging people to vote if they had not already done so. Kriseman and Crist, who is running for the Congressional District 13 seat held by Republican David Jolly, started out in the Tyrone area. Later, they visited businesses on Central Avenue in St. Pete where Alex Sink joined them. Sink is…

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