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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].

Former state Rep. Jamie Grant slammed in grand jury report

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A Hardee County Grand Jury has blasted former Tampa state Rep. Jamie Grant and other officials for their involvement in a medical start-up technology company that received millions of dollars in public money with little to show for it. Although the report was completed in January, its contents weren’t revealed until this weekend by WTSP-Channel 10 reporter Mike Deeson. The case revolves around financial grants that help fund Grant’s company, LifeSync Technologies, which eventually produced CareSync, a Web and mobile application…

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Guido Maniscalco & Jackie Toledo fight for momentum in Tampa City Council race

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Guido Maniscalco was on the campaign trail Sunday morning — just not that early. The change in Daylight Saving Time meant that the 30-year-old Democrat made sure he didn’t alienate potential voters by knocking on doors before noon. He was out and about, though, with more volunteers than ever to help him. He’s been given a second life but has a little more than two weeks to close his 17-percentage point gap behind Jackie Toledo. His 38-year-old opponent came in first…

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Mitch Perry Report for 3.9.15 — Let’s not talk about climate change in Florida

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President Obama has been lambasted by many for his administration’s refusal to address the terrorist threat around the globe as “Islamic terrorism.” “We are not at war with Islam,” the President said last month at the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism last month. “We are at war with people who have perverted Islam.” Nevertheless, critics say that the failure to specify who the U.S. and the rest of the West is at war with has deleteriously affected his…

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Battle over solar power heats up as proponents fend off attacks from Americans for Prosperity

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The drive to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot next year that would allow Floridians more choice about using solar power has enjoyed quick success, and furious push-back from their opponents. On Saturday, Conservatives for Energy Freedom, one of the groups pushing for a constitutional amendment in 2016 on solar, blasted the group Americans for Prosperity for what they claim are inaccurate talking points that the group has been issuing.. “AFP frequently mentions the subsidies for solar, but fails to…

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Clearing up our reporting about Tampa City Council candidate Susan Long

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On Election Day in Tampa, yours truly went to two different voting precincts in Seminole Heights to try to interrogate voters’ opinions on the most interesting race on the ballot, the District 6 City Council race between Jackie Toledo, Guido Maniscalco and Tommy Castellano. As we reported in our story, we went to different locations: the Seminole Heights Garden Center on Central Avenue, and at the American Legion Post 111 on Florida Avenue, approximately 7 blocks north. We had extremely mixed success…

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ACLU & other groups now oppose police body camera bill in Tallahassee

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After the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner at the hands of law enforcement agencies last year, there was a nationwide clamor for police officers to begin wearing body cameras as a way to provide transparency and accountability for both the police and the citizenry. President Obama announced $263 million in funding for law enforcement agencies to buy body-worn cameras and improve training, and police departments throughout the Tampa Bay area said they would begin implementing their usage as well.…

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Campaign for home care workers to make $15 an hour in Florida heats up

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Spurred on by organized labor, a campaign to drive up the wages for fast-food workers spread locally and across the country last year. That campaign is now encompassing other low-income industries. Last week a group of adjunct professors held a protest on the USF campus in Tampa calling for higher wages, and now the movement is spreading to home health-care workers. “I think it’s just time for a change,” says Reuben Masas, a home health-care worker employed at BAYADA located in South Tampa.…

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