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One of the reasons St. Pete City Council is speculated to have squashed Mayor Rick Kriseman’s proposed deal with the Rays to look outside the city for possible stadium sites is a component of the current Use Agreement that requires the city to pony over a portion of revenue from development on the Tropicana Field site to the MLB franchise. “Last night, City Council clouded this issue,” Kriseman wrote in a statement. “To be clear, the City retains one-hundred percent…

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-Hillsborough County Commissioner Victor Crist is proposing a new idea for a possible Rays’ stadium site – the old Tampa Greyhound Dog Track. The 25-acre property sits on the east side of I-275 and on the south side of Waters Avenue. It’s nestled in the economically strapped Sulfur Springs neighborhood that has long been targeted for economic development. “The utilization of the dog track site for a stadium could jump start that long-awaited revitalization of Sulfur Springs and continue positive…

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Two Tampa TV stations have been awarded the DuPont Award from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. WFTS and WTSP were both awarded for investigative reports. WFTS, ABC Action News, received the award for “Incapacitated: Florida’s Guardianship Program.” The piece was a long-form report on the Florida Guardianship Program that cares for elderly adults who don’t have family members to look after them in their later years. The report began with 99-year-old William Berchau who was placed into an Alzheimer’s…

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St. Pete City Council rejected the agreement between Mayor Rick Kriseman and the Tampa Bay Rays that would have allowed the Major League Baseball franchise to look outside of St. Petersburg in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties for a new stadium site. Only three council members – Darden Rice, Karl Nurse and Charlie Gerdes – voted in favor of the Memorandum of Understanding that would have required the Rays to pay an annual fee each year it played games outside the city of…

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A degree in one of the fastest growing fields worldwide will be available at the University of Tampa next year. Beginning next fall, UT students can begin studying cybersecurity. Students obtaining a degree in cybersecurity will learn how to protect the confidentiality and integrity of information and information systems. According to the school, the curriculum will focus on the basics of information systems as well as advanced topics in “network security, cryptography, risk management, security governance, business continuity, security architecture,…

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A former member of the Chamber of Commerce’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Baseball is asking the City Council to take a harder look at the deal on the table between Mayor Rick Kriseman and the Rays before voting on the measure. In a current Memorandum of Understanding, the Rays would have to pay the city $4 million a year until 2018 to play ball outside the city. After 2018 that annual fee would go down to $3 million and…

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Alright Rays fans (or concerned taxpayers), today is the day. After postponing it one week, St. Pete City Council members will vote whether or not to approve a deal brokered by Mayor Rick Kriseman with the Tampa Bay Rays to allow the franchise to begin looking at stadium locations outside the city in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties. The plan includes a depreciating annual compensation starting at $4 million a year that will be paid to the city IF the Rays…

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