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Tampa Bay Lightning fans are blowing up social media this year during home games. According to AT&T media relations, there was more than 62GB of data used during the first home game of the season last Thursday where Tampa Bay bested the Florida Panthers 3-2 in overtime. That’s equivalent to more than 177,000 social media posts with photos. The data reflects a nearly 40% increase in data usage over last year’s home opener. AT&T looked at data at home openers…

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People who live in the ‘burg know it’s a gem like no other, but is it underrated? According to the travel website Conde Nast Traveler, it is. “Florida has higher-profile destinations (Miami, Orlando, Key West…) than St. Petersburg,” senior digital editor Lauren Dannen Redman writes. “But this Gulf Coast city stole our hearts recently with its new Salvador Dali museum.” First of all, I’m not sure St. Pete can be fairly classified as underrated considering it was recently listed as…

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The city of St. Pete will implement a program designed to cut back on panhandling while raising money for homeless charities. Beginning this week, 12 refurbished parking meters will be installed throughout downtown, but instead of feeding the meters to avoid a pesky parking ticket, users will have the option of throwing some spare change in to support homeless outreach efforts. The first meter is being installed near St. Vincent De Paul with others expected to go up along Beach…

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St. Pete officials are homing in on plans to revitalize parts of South St. Pete, home to some of the city’s most impoverished neighborhoods like Midtown and Child’s Park. During the fifth in a series of six public meetings, residents and members of a committee convened Monday night to study ways to improve neighborhoods between Fourth and 49th Street and First Avenue North to 30th Avenue South. St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman was on hand with his guide dog pup-in-training…

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Fundraising for Tampa City Council seats is in full swing. Especially in the office currently held by outgoing city council chair Charlie Miranda. Three candidates in the race for the District 6 seat covering parts of West and South Tampa have brought in a combined total of more than $100,000 in campaign cash. Jackie Toledo is leading the pack with $60,771 in campaign contributions. Thomas Clark Castellano and Guido Maniscalco are lagging far behind with $24,135 and $21,419 respectively. Toledo,…

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The Greenlight Pinellas transit campaign raked in $46,950 in a one-week fundraising period from September 27 through October 3 bringing the campaign’s total monetary contributions to $937,082. The campaign is trying to reach $1 million in an effort to pass a ballot referendum that would replace the current property tax funding structure for public transportation in Pinellas with a one-penny sales tax increase. If approved, the measure would increase annual revenue for the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority from $30 million…

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Pinellas County Commission candidates Ed Hooper and Pat Gerard appear to have slowed down their fundraising efforts with just over three weeks until the election and vote-by-mail ballots already in mailboxes. The two raised a combined total of just more than $10,000 during the latest reporting period from September 27 to October 3. Spending, on the other hand, was rampant. Hooper spent $63,229 in the one-week period. Most of that was on a television ad highlighting his voting record in…

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