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Mitch Perry has been a reporter with Extensive Enterprises since November of 2014. Previously, he served as five years as the political editor of the alternative newsweekly Creative Loafing. He also was the assistant news director with WMNF 88.5 FM in Tampa from 2000-2009, and currently hosts MidPoint, a weekly talk show, on WMNF on Thursday afternoons. He began his reporting career at KPFA radio in Berkeley. He's a San Francisco native who has now lived in Tampa for 15 years and can be reached at [email protected].

Yolie Capin & Frank Reddick endorse Guido Maniscalco in Tampa City Council runoff

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Tampa City Council members Yolie Capin and Frank Reddick have endorsed Guido Maniscalco in his race for the District 6 Tampa City Council seat that will be decided next Tuesday. They made that announcement Wednesday night in Ybor City. Maniscalco is battling Jackie Toledo in a fierce contest to complete the seven-member roster of the Council. All seven seats were up for election earlier this month, but the incumbents in five of those races easily took back their seats. And while…

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So much for that debate between Guido Maniscalco & Jackie Toledo

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s For those of you poised to sit back and watch Jackie Toledo and Guido Maniscalco battle it out for the first and only time in a debate five days before the District 6 Tampa City Council runoff election, you’re out of luck. There will be no debate tonight, after the League of Women Voters and Jackie Toledo backed out earlier this week. The issue is the neutrality of the moderator, Mario Nunez, the host of The Tampa Natives Show,…

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Mitch Perry Report for 3.19.15 — Rick Scott for Senate?

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Adam Smith in the Times has an exclusive today that Rick Scott is “eyeing” a run for the U.S. Senate — in 2016. Rumors surfaced earlier this year after Scott began spending money on TV ads — I mean, why does the just re-elected governor need to keep on campaigning? Well, certainly Scott apparently has money to burn to try to burnish his image, already damaged slightly after “Baileygate.” But the early scuttlebutt was maybe Scott was considering a run in 2016…

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Tampa Bay area McDonalds workers protest unsafe work conditions

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This afternoon in Tampa, approximately 70 fast-food workers, many McDonalds employees, and their allies held a demonstration protesting health hazards that they say they’ve incurred on the job. It’s the latest effort by activists behind the “Fight for $15” campaign to get fast-food workers a higher wage and the right to join a union, primarily funded by the Service Employees International Union. Blue Reiner works at the McDonalds at Fletcher Avenue and 22nd Street in Tampa. He says he has…

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Senate votes to move Florida presidential primary to March 15, 2016

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The Florida Senate today unanimously approved a bill that will move the state’s presidential primary moves from January to March 15, 2016. This is significant because that date is the first day the state can conduct, if it chooses as expected, a primary with a winner-take-all prize for the victor. New rules announced by the Republican National Committee require the awarding of convention delegates based upon the percentage of votes earned for any primaries held between March 1 and March…

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Jack Latvala bill to exempt taxpayers email addresses from state’s open record law moves on in Senate

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A bill exempting taxpayers’ email addresses from the state’s open record law advanced in the Florida Senate on Wednesday. Clearwater Republican Jack Latvala argues the proposal protects consumers from scammers who use digital skills to defraud people. Latvala says he’s sponsoring the bill because tax collectors requested he do so. Senate Minority Leader Arthenia Joyner questioned the need for the legislation, asking what was “the perceived notion” that tax collectors had about identity theft? Latvala said the open records exemption is needed…

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Jackie Toledo asks Hillsborough Republicans to help her ‘make history’

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There’s less than a week to go in the Tampa District 6 City Council runoff election, and though the race is officially non-partisan, both candidates are making a partisan pitch to their fellow party members. “We have a great opportunity in one week to make history. I could be the first Republican in District 6 to win this race,” Jackie Toledo told the dozens of members in attendance at the Hillsborough County Republican Executive Committee meeting Tuesday night at the…

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