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Tis the season to be jolly. Tis also the season to set homes ablaze. Between December 1, 2013 and January 2, 2014 there were 68 fire incidents dispatched in the St. Petersburg District. With Christmas trees lined with lights, homes loading electrical outlets to capacity and kitchens getting used more than usual to prepare holiday meals, house fires are all too common this time of year. It’s also a common season for other holiday-related accidents both at home and on…

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Rick Scott is one of ten governor’s nationwide to be elected this year without support from a majority of voters. It’s only the third time that has happened since 1916. Scott earned just less than 49 percent of the vote this November against Charlie Crist. But they weren’t the only two dogs in the fight. Libertarian Adrian Wyllie earned 3.8 percent of the vote in the race, thus making it possible for a winner to emerge with less than half…

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Tampa has been rated a lot of things – snobby, sexy, poor. Welp, now there’s another to tack onto the list and it may contribute to why Tampans are snobby and sexy. According to WalletHub, a financial interest website that seems to be more so dedicated to silly studies, ranked Tampa sixth out of the nation’s 100 most populous cities for active lifestyles. Tampa ranked fourth in overall outdoor access and environment — that’s for things like parks and sports…

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Former University of South Florida President Betty Castor will begin her post as chair of the J. William Fulbright Scholarship board on January 1. Castor was elected to the head of the scholarship program in November. Castor served as president of USF for five years from 1994 to 1999 and most recently as the executive director of the Patel Center for Global Solutions at the school. Previously, Castor was the Florida commissioner of education and was the first woman elected…

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Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn sounded a little like his St. Pete counterpart today while talking about wooing the Tampa Bay Rays to his city. Both mayors insist their city is the best pick for the Major League Baseball team as the team itself says only that it intends to take a “fresh look” at where they may end up playing ball in the coming years. After Kriseman announced the agreement with the Rays to allow the franchise to begin evaluating…

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If you ask any craft beer brewer, making delicious beer is an art. Well, in Florida, so too is selling craft beer. First, craft breweries are part of a three-tiered system that basically requires them to sell their brews to distributors who then sell them back to the brewer. The exceptions are growlers – those neato-looking glass jugs you can fill up, take home and bring back again later – to-go beer. Those come in quart and gallon-sizes, but not…

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Madeira Beach is embracing a new way to pay by becoming the world’s first municipality to officially embrace the tech money, Bitcoin. Last week the city passed a resolution making it a “Bitcoin Beach.” The move comes as St. Pete and surrounding areas prepare for the December 26 Bitcoin Bowl at Tropicana Field. The college football bowl game is sponsored by BitPay. The company hopes that by placing its name on a popular college football sporting event thousands of Bitcoin…

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