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Devon Crumpacker is a Tampa Bay based writer and reporter for Extensive Enterprises Media. He primarily covers Pinellas County politics for SaintPetersblog.com, but also makes time to write the occasional bar review for FloridaBarTab.com. He lives in St. Petersburg with his fiance, Sydney. To contact, e-mail [email protected], or visit his Twitter page @DevonCrumpacker.

The definitive guide to Pinellas County Fourth of July fireworks and festivities

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What’s the Fourth all about here in Pinellas County? At heart, it’s about the same thing here as it is all across the Land of the Brave. Food and fireworks. And community and national pride and patriotism, of course. But mainly fireworks, right? Fireworks and celebration anyway. So we’ve amassed a list of all the best spots in Pinellas County to experience these great American summer holiday themes. So go forth, be merry, and remember the words of Benjamin Rush,…

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South St. Petersburg Community Redevelopment Plan gets trust; Lealman, recognized as blighted, is established as CRA

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The Pinellas County Commission officially created a trust fund for the South St. Petersburg Community Redevelopment Plan at its Tuesday, June 23, regular meeting. The trust will get its money through tax increment funding (TIF), a public financing method that uses future tax gains to subsidize community improvements. In this case, bonds based on 85 percent of the TIF district’s 2014 tax increment will be distributed to the redevelopment trust fund by the county. Over its 30-year lifespan, the established TIF…

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Pinellas County home sales leveling out

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Pinellas County home sales, after several months on the rise, have seemingly leveled out, says the Pinellas Realtor Organization (PRO) in its May 2015 real estate statistics. The combined 2,029 single family homes, townhouses and condos sold in Pinellas County during May 2015 was down from 2,103 in April 2015. A more accurate indicator of Pinellas County’s leveling home sales: year-over-year combined sales stats for single-family houses, townhouses, and condos. Just a 10 percent increase in these types of Pinellas…

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South St. Pete redevelopment trust fund approval expected Tuesday

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The Pinellas County Commission and St. Petersburg City Council have all but agreed on a payment plan for the South St. Petersburg Community Redevelopment Project. County staff will be recommending an ordinance to the Pinellas County Commission at its Tuesday, June 23, meeting that creates a trust fund for the project’s community redevelopment area (CRA) — a 7.5-square-mile section of South St. Pete that reaches from Fourth Street to 49th Street, and from Second Avenue N. to 30th Avenue S. The…

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Showing results: Florida’s most aggressive poverty reduction plan to date

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A five-year, $170 million investment plan to reduce poverty and stimulate job growth in South St. Pete is “exceeding expectations,” according to a midyear progress report released by the Pinellas County Urban League this June. The city- and county-backed project is called the 2020 Plan — named after its expected completion year — and it’s being hailed as the most aggressive poverty reduction effort ever attempted in the State of Florida. The newly released report measures progress associated with each…

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Budget Listening Tour hears heavy feedback from city employees

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Last night’s city-sponsored FY16 Budget Listening Tour saw a high turnout from St. Petersburg city employees. Their cry: higher pay. Despite being assured that a 3 percent pay raise would be written into St. Petersburg’s FY16 budget, via a prerecorded video from Mayor Rick Kriseman, city workers from various departments still expressed their need for more money during the event’s public comment section. “I feel like it’s a slap in the face,” said the Wastewater Department’s Lamont Ellison of the…

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St. Pete City Council final Budget Listening Tour tonight

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Ears will be open for suggestions as St. Petersburg leaders begin to craft a new city budget. The FY16 Budget Listening Tour concludes this evening at 6 p.m. It is the last of three formal and guided opportunities to learn how city leaders determine St. Petersburg’s annual spending plan. All of St. Pete City Council, as well as the public, is invited to the event at Willis S. Johns Recreation Center, at 6635 Dr. M. L. King, Jr. Street North. Lawmakers in attendance…

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