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The city of St. Pete has struck a deal with the Tampa Bay Rays to allow the Major League Baseball franchise to look outside the city for a new location for a stadium. The deal comes after more than four years of failed negotiations. “I’ve long recognized that had this continued for several more years, the Rays would be wise enough to simply wait out the contract and move away, leaving us with nothing but a vacant building,” St. Pete…

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A month after losing his seat to Republican Rene Plasencia, former Central Florida state Rep. Joe Saunders is brushing the loss off and moving on to his next endeavor. In an email, Saunders announced his new gig working as the Southern regional field director for the 1.5 million-member Human Rights Campaign. “I’m just now feeling recovered and ready to rejoin the world of the living,” Saunders wrote in an email. Saunders was one of two to earn the title of…

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The Pinellas County Republican Executive Committee has a new chair. Former Vice Chair Nick DiCeglie won by a supermajority vote to replace Michael Guju as the PCREC chair effective immediately. Guju did not run for re-election. DiCeglie has owned the waste management company Solar Sanitation since 1996 after growing up in the business. He sits on several other boards throughout the county, including the Clearwater Regional Chamber of Commerce, Indian Rocks Beach Planning and Zoning board and Leadership Pinellas. “As…

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Pinellas County’s newest state representatives are already securing posts in committees ahead of the 2015 Legislative Session in March. House Speaker Steve Crisafulli today announced committee assignments for the 2015 Tallahassee class of lawmakers. Chris Sprowls, the Republican lawyer who ousted Clearwater teacher and Democrat Carl Zimmerman in November, will assume posts on five committees and subcommittes. Those include the Government Operations Appropriations Subcommittee, Higher Education and Workforce Subcommittee, Health and Human Services Committee, Health Innovation Subcommittee and Health Quality…

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The City of St. Petersburg has come to an agreement with the Tampa Bay Rays that will allow the Major League Baseball franchise to look outside of St. Petersburg and Pinellas County for a new stadium. St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman will officially announce the deal during a press conference at Tropicana Field Tuesday, but a memorandum of understanding has already been released by the city outlining how the sports franchise will compensate the city if it begins playing ball…

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Guido Maniscalco is in a hotly contested three-way race to replace Tampa City Council chair Charlie Miranda. Maniscalco has now been endorsed by Hillsborough County Property Appraiser and former state Rep. Bob Henriquez. The Guido Maniscalco for Tampa City Council, District 6, campaign is proud to announce its endorsement by Henriquez. “Guido has lived, worked and played in this district his entire life; he not only cares about the issues we face, he understands them,” Henriquez said. Charlie Miranda’s District 6…

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Hot on the heels of a major political victory, Pat Gerard campaign manager Tom Alte has launched his own political consulting firm. Blue Ticket Consulting officially opened for business Monday. Alte moved to St. Petersburg last year and quickly entered the political arena, taking the helm of former Largo Mayor Pat Gerard’s campaign for Pinellas County Commission. Despite other Democrats being largely out-funded by Republican opposition, Alte and Gerard managed to keep pace with former State Rep. Ed Hooper’s strong…

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