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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].

Immigration activists, Tampa City Council members at odds on driver’s license issue

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Pro-immigration activists are pushing for the Florida Legislature to support a bill granting driver’s licenses to qualified Florida residents regardless of immigration status, saying it will spur economic growth and make the streets safer. In Tampa, those activists have been trying to build up grassroots support for the measure by having the City Council pass a resolution showing their support. Marisol Marquez with the group Raíces en Tampa said she met with six of the seven council members last year about…

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Mitch Perry Report for 2.24.15 — It’s Bush and Clinton in Tampa (fundraisers, that is)

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There are a couple of fundraisers in Tampa Tuesday night supporting what some hope (and others fear) will the presidential matchup in 2016: Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton. You’ll have to shell out a minimum of $1,000 to get in the door tonight for the fundraiser for Right to Rise at the Grand Hyatt. That’s the leadership PAC formed by Bush this past month that allows him to raise money, hire staff, travel across the country, and donate to candidates…

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Mitch Perry’s 10 things to watch for in 2015

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Some of these are outright predictions, but most of these stories are events that we’ll be watching for in 2015. 1 – Florida State’s reign as national champions ends January 1, 8:30 p.m. eastern time. It was great while it lasted, but the Noles’ uncanny run of luck and two-year undefeated run comes crashing down on New Year’s Night as Jimbo Fisher and Jameis Winston lose out to Marcus Mariota and the Oregon Ducks at the Rose Bowl, in the first-ever College football…

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A look back at the year in news in Tampa Bay

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Tis the season for year-end lists, so here’s this reporter’s take on the 10 biggest/most interesting developments over the past year in Tampa Bay/Florida politics. 1 – The Florida Democratic Party hits rock bottom. There are a number of reasons why Rick Scott beat Charlie Crist, and the Crist camp’s notion that the $12 million that Scott raided out of his checking account in the final 10 days of the campaign was a significant factor. But a look back shows…

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Mitch Perry’s choices for the year’s best in movies, books & music

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Best movies: 1 – Locke  I suppose this says something about myself that my favorite film for the second straight year features one male actor on screen by himself for the entire duration of the picture. Last year it was Robert Redford filling every frame of the screen in J.C. Chandor’s All is Lost, a story of man vs. nature. At least Redford moved around in his boat. In Locke, Brit Tom Hardy stars as a man who is in his car…

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Mitch Perry Report for 12.19.14 – St. Pete Pride

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What’s next? Yesterday’s not really so stunning rebuke of Mayor Rick Kriseman by the St. Pete City Council has us back where we’ve been for the past six years regarding the Tampa Bay Rays stadium issue — which is a slow countdown to the Rays ultimately packing their bags and leave the area. For years now the Rays management has become convinced that they can’t thrive in downtown St. Pete and thus want  to talk to Tampa officials about a possible…

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Handful of activists protest Tampa’s ‘racist gentrification’ outside Chamber lunch

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A day after Tampa developer Jeff Vinik dazzled hundreds of observers with a slick 90-minute presentation of his $1 billion construction project along the waterfront in downtown Tampa, a handful of protesters descended in front of the Tampa Convention Center, protesting what they said was the growing “racist gentrification” happening in the city. “This is clearly high-end development, high-end condos, high-end restaurants, and that will create a rent gap and push out poor people. It’s an old story, but it’s happening…

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