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Joe Henderson has had a 45-year career in newspapers, including the last nearly 42 years at The Tampa Tribune. He covered a large variety of things, primarily in sports but also including hard news. The two intertwined in the decade-long search to bring Major League Baseball to the area. Henderson was also City Hall reporter for two years and covered all sides of the sales tax issue that ultimately led to the construction of Raymond James Stadium. He served as a full-time sports columnist for about 10 years before moving to the metro news columnist for the last 4 ½ years. Henderson has numerous local, state and national writing awards. He has been married to his wife, Elaine, for nearly 35 years and has two grown sons – Ben and Patrick.

Joe Henderson: Be wary of consultant’s report on St. Pete Pier project

in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by

The new St. Pete Pier – stop laughing – was originally supposed to cost around $45 million, give or take a couple of grouper. We know how that goes though. It’s kind of like when your cable company promises to provide a million channels for 99 cents, or something like that. Then you get handed the bill. Anyway, as the back-and-forth went on and cost estimates increased, former Mayor Bill Foster famously said, “For $50 million, the people will get…

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Joe Henderson: Stench from St. Pete sewage spill last year hangs over Rick Kriseman campaign

in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by

If I’m St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman, the results of a new poll in his re-election bid against Republican Rick Baker might keep me up at night. I usually don’t pay a lot of attention to early surveys in political races but this one by St. Pete Polls, conducted for FloridaPolitics.com, is different. It shows how steep a hill Kriseman has to climb. It’s not just that the overall poll shows him trailing Baker 46-33, although that’s a significant number.…

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The end for SaintPetersBlog

Ever since I acquired the rights to the perfect domain for my efforts — FloridaPolitics.com — I knew that one

Joe Henderson: If Rick Scott stands on principle, then he must use budget veto pen

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Take your seats, folks. This is going to be good. We are about to find out who is the boss in Florida. If Gov. Rick Scott wants to remind everyone in the Legislature who has the most stripes on their shoulder, then he has to follow through on his threat to start vetoing major — or all — parts of the $82.4 billion budget presented to him by the House and Senate. Special session? Bring it on. The budget eviscerates…

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Joe Henderson: Richard Corcoran in the governor’s race? Adam Putnam would be hard to catch

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Well, I guess that is settled. House Speaker Richard Corcoran has emphatically ruled out running for the U.S. Senate, and I admit I’m a little disappointed. The thought of a bare-knuckle campaign between him and Gov. Rick Scott for the Republican nomination would have been immensely entertaining. Not gonna happen. “Those are the only two choices — (run for) governor or not run for office,” Corcoran told the Tampa Bay Times. Well, that could work. The knuckles would still be…

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Joe Henderson: Betsy DeVos pleaded for students to listen, but shouldn’t she do the same?

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As students at Bethune-Cookman University turned their backs and lustily booed commencement speaker Betsy DeVos, the rattled education secretary pleaded, “Let’s choose to hear each other out.” It’s ironic that DeVos chose those words to find middle ground, considering Republicans across the land, and particularly in the Washington establishment she now represents, have demonstrated no interest in hearing anything but the echo of their own voices. The best leaders spend a long time listening before they speak. Perhaps DeVos should…

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Joe Henderson: Rick Scott came to Tally as an outsider, and that’s just how he might leave

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For as much as Gov. Rick Scott loves to deride what he calls “career politicians” — even those in his own party — those same people have forced him into what looks more and more like an inescapable trap. Does he veto the just-passed $83 billion state budget and force lawmakers to return to Tallahassee to override him, which they almost certainly would? Risky. Losing would continue the parliamentary butt-whipping Scott received during the Legislative Session at the hands of,…

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Joe Henderson: No matter the outcome of St. Pete mayor’s race, the city wins either way

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Rick Baker’s much-anticipated entry into the St. Petersburg mayoral race ensures several things, all of them good. It means voters will have two highly qualified and effective candidates from which to choose. Democratic incumbent Rick Kriseman has had some issues, just like every mayor of every big city in the United States. He has been mostly successful, though, at navigating the needs and desires of a growing and, more importantly, evolving city. Baker, a Republican, served as St. Pete’s mayor from…

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