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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].

NextGen Climate brings Rick Scott’s gag order on climate change to the GOP presidential race

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A report published over the weekend says that under Rick Scott, officials with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection have been banned from using the terms “global warming,” and “climate change.” The story has received massive media attention in the past 48 hours. Never one to let bypass an opportunity, NextGen Climate is seizing on the apparent censoring to ask fellow Florida Republicans (and potential presidential candidates) Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio to respond to the report, and put them on the spot as to…

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State officials say arrests in Florida have been declining over the past 5 years

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With an annual budget of $2.3 billion and over 23,000 positions, the state Department of Corrections is one of the biggest  — and most important — agencies in the state of Florida.  And as a department that relies so much on general revenues for its funding, that reduction in revenues has undoubtedly played some part in the problems that have grown inside the system. And as the Senate Criminal Justice Committee was hearing about issues of corruption within the Department of…

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Senate committee hears about corruption inside the Dept. of Corrections

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Over the past year, the Florida Department of Corrections has come under fire for inmate deaths, allegations of abuse by prison guards, cover-ups, understaffing and officer shift issues. Today in Tallahassee, the Senate Criminal Justice Committee heard firsthand from some of those officials who have themselves come under retaliation simply by reporting such incidents. First up for the hour-long hearing was Doug Glissom, who works in the inspector general’s office. He mentioned the issue of inmate Quentin Faust, who complained…

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New poll shows Marco Rubio & Jeff Atwater leading Dems in 2016 Florida Senate race

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Marco Rubio looks to be in good shape for his re-election chances for the Senate next year, at least against South Florida Democratic U.S. Reps. Patrick Murphy and Debbie Wasserman Schultz. A Mason-Dixon poll released Tuesday shows Rubio with double-digit leads over both Democrats. Against Murphy, he’s up 50-38 percent. Against Wasserman Schultz, it’s 53-36 percent. But if his presidential aspirations take off, Rubio may very well not run for re-election. If that’s the case, Mason Dixon shows that one…

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Mitch Perry Report for 3.10.15 — Pier politics

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In my duties with SaintPetersBlog/Florida Politics, I don’t get the opportunity to cover the political scene in St. Petersburg as much as I used to. Therefore yesterday’s announcement regarding the results of the public survey of the seven proposals to replace the Pier landmark was the first time I had a chance to look at the new designs. For the past couple of weeks, the public (or those who are actually St. Pete residents) has been weighing in on their favorite designs…

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Obama’s proposed budget would bar tax-exempt bonds to finance stadiums

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Florida lawmakers last year approved a plan to set aside $7 million in sales-tax dollars to help pay for building or renovating sports stadiums. But last month the Joint Legislative Budget Commission punted on the decision on whether or not to fund the four stadium projects that were before them — EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Daytona International Speedway, Sun Life Stadium in Miami-Dade County and an Orlando soccer stadium. The issue of whether to give tax breaks to millionaires for such…

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St. Pete exec extols virtues of doing business in Florida

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In a survey of U.S. CEOs’ choice of best and worst states for business last year, Florida ranked second, finishing just behind Texas. “We’ve learned from Texas how to tell our story better and it helps that we’ve cut taxes 25 times, by about $400 million,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott told Chief Executive Magazine. “When companies like Hertz, Amazon, Deutsche Bank and Verizon add jobs here, it causes more people to look at us. Business is comfortable that we’ll keep the tax base low…

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