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Governor Rick Scott is celebrating another job success. During a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday in Clearwater, Scott announced a $50 million dollar capital investment by General Electric that will create 250 new jobs in the area. GE is expanding an existing Clearwater plant into what it’s calling a manufacturing Center of Excellence. It will encompass an already existing instrument transformer and add capacitors. The expansion is set to open near the end of 2015. “Florida businesses have already created more than…

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The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority gave nearly 1.2 million rides in June. That’s the busiest June on record for the transit agency. The 1,188,625 rides represents a 4.4% increase over the same month last year and is another in a line of shattered records. 2013 was also a record year for the PSTA with nearly 14.5 million rides given. “PSTA is one of the few transit systems to see continual ridership growth over the last five years including the recession,…

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Lisa Montelione is vying to keep her job as a Tampa City Council member. The first-term council member filed to run on Tuesday. “There are so many things that I’ve been working on in the first three and a half years that I want to see through and I want to develop even further,” Montelione said. On that list are things like giving small businesses access to resources that would help them thrive and road and signage improvements between Busch…

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Up until Tuesday he wouldn’t answer much, but Governor Rick Scott is clear on one thing – jobs. Scott will be in Clearwater Thursday celebrating the expansion of a General Electric plant that will add 250 new jobs to the area. GE’s Manufacturing Center of Excellence in Clearwater is replacing a plant in the upstate New York town of Fort Edward that is expected to shut down sometime in early 2015. According to the Tampa Bay Times, some workers there earned…

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Retired chiropractor and education activist Ken Peluso announced today four groups are endorsing him in his bid for Pinellas County School board. The groups are the Pinellas Classroom Teachers Association, the Pinellas Educational Support Professionals Association (PCTA-PESPA), the Pinellas Realtor Organization (PRO) and the Palm Harbor/Oldsmar Professional Firefighters. The Palm Harbor resident seeks to fill the District Four seat being vacated by Robin Wikle, who is not running for re-election. According to the Tampa Bay Times, Peluso’s priority is boosting…

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Wondering what’s going on with transit in Pinellas? Well, the campaign for a transit referendum seeking to fund a sweeping set of improvements is making it easy for voters to learn more … over the phone. Greenlight Pinellas will host a telephone town hall meeting on Thursday as a one-stop shop for info. The first of three dial-in phone conferences will be open to anyone. Pinellas County Commissioner Susan Latvala and the PSTA CEO Brad Miller will be available to…

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Eighty artists will speckle the downtown St. Pete Coliseum next weekend for the 26th annual Cool Art Show. And it is cool. Paintings, sketches, jewelry, metal work, glass, wood, you name it, it’s there. St. Pete is home to one of the liveliest arts community in the country and next weekend more than 6,000 people are expected to roam from booth to booth checking out what local artists are up to. One of the biggest names at the show is…

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