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More cuts are happening in the land of Tampa Bay daily newspapers. The Tampa Tribune announced last week they will cease operation of Hernando Today, an off-shoot of the Tribune that has served the Brooksville area for three decades. Ken Koehn, managing editor for the Tribune, attributed the closure to a tough advertising climate and described the local paper’s production as “cost-productive” in a self-penned article appearing in the Hernando Today. “We cherish our role of serving the Hernando community, which…

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St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman has named a new city development administrator. Alan Delisle will report directly to the city administrator and the mayor. He will oversee the development, implementation and administrations of city planning, zoning, licensing, inspection, urban redevelopment and economic and business development. “I am excited to have Alan DeLisle joining our leadership team at the City. He’s coming to St. Petersburg at an incredibly important time in our city’s history. We are growing in new and exciting…

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By now you’ve probably seen the news circulating about the impressive young blonde in West Virginia who just became the nation’s youngest lawmaker. Saira Blair is 18-years old and a freshman at West Virginia University studying economics. According to news reports, Blair decided to seek state office representing her small district of some 4,000 voters because finding a job is just too gosh darn hard in her state. Blair, a staunch Republican, ousted a two-term sitting incumbent during the primary…

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The Greenlight Pinellas transit initiative supporters hoped would re-shape the face of multi-modal transportation not just in the county, but across the region, is dead. But the concept of increasing transit options is still very much alive. Officials in Hillsborough County continue to grapple with putting their own transit plans before voters in 2016, though those efforts could be greatly altered by the fate of Greenlight Pinellas. Transit officials and supporters in Pinellas are going back to the drawing board…

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Not even 24-hours after learning she had just won a six-figure job as a Pinellas County Commissioner, Largo Mayor Pat Gerard was on a plane on her way to Europe for a long-awaited vacation. Gerard narrowly defeated State Representative Ed Hooper with 51 percent of the vote. Despite an overall Democratic slaughter, the 2014 midterm was a raving success for Gerard. While other Democrats struggled to come even close to raising campaign cash as quickly and massively as their Republican…

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It’s apparently not enough for at least one Tea Party, No Tax for Tracks extremist that Greenlight Pinellas was soundly defeated by a team of a couple dozen anti-tax right wingers and less than $100,000. It’s not enough to watch a $1 million campaign fizzle in a matter of seconds before any Election Day votes were even counted. Nope. Tom Rask wants more. Rask, the man who bombarded Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority email inboxes with mean-spirited insults; the man who…

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One of the key donors behind anti-Rick Scott political advertisements this election was the political committee NextGen Climate. As of late October, the group dumped $3 million into ads trying to get Scott out of Tallahassee. The group made Scott one of their key mid-term targets calling him a climate change “denier.” The group also dumped hundreds of thousands of dollars in political strategizing and media attack efforts for issues pertaining to climate change. One of their benefactors was also…

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