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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].

‘You’re more partisan than me,’ says Rick Baker about Rick Kriseman — and vice versa

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Rick Baker knew for months that Rick KrisemanĀ was going to attack him as an out-of-step Republican in a Democratically friendly city, even before entering the mayoral campaign last month. During his campaign kickoff announcement, the former St. Petersburg Mayor warned supportersĀ  they’d be getting a dose of such rhetoric from theĀ Kriseman camp: ā€œBecause thatā€™s the only thing they have.ā€ But last week, while filing papers for his official re-election run, Kriseman said that a review of who contributed to Seamless…

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HART CFO warns feds funding delay could be a big problem

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Apparently, it’s not just the lack of hiring executive-level appointments where the Donald Trump administration is fallingĀ behind. The Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) is patiently waiting on the Federal Transit Administration to deliver more than $10 million in federal formula funding that it expected to receive before the end of the current fiscal year in September. But it hasn’t arrived yet. “This is the latest that it has ever been,” said HART CFO Jeff Seward told A HARTĀ subcommittee meeting…

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Vern Buchanan backing bill to help block synthetic opioids from entering country

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In 2015, Manatee and Sarasota counties had the highest and second-highest number respectively of fentanyl-related deaths per capita in the state, according to the Florida Medical Examiners Commission. So it should come as no surprise that Congressman Vern BuchananĀ is signing on as a co-sponsor for the INTERDICT Act, which aims to stop the flow of fentanyl and other drugs by providing border agents with drug-detecting chemical screening devices at ports of entry and more personnel, including scientists. They will detect…

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Bob Buckhorn says Tampa is doing plenty to combat climate change

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Although Bob Buckhorn isn’t likely to sign onto a Sierra Club pledge putting Tampa on record as attempting a 100 clean energy portfolio by a certain year, his administration says he’s doing plenty to combat the negative implications of climate change on the city. Buckhorn did join St. Pete Mayor Rick KrisemanĀ in signing on to a group of over 300 mayorsĀ earlier this month who say they intend to fully the intended mission of the Paris Climate agreement, which President Trump…

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

Alex Sink: Anger over HB 7069 could be Dems winning issue in 2018

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Could expansion of state spending for charter school operators ā€” at the expense of public schools ā€” fuel a surge of support for Florida Democrats at the polls in 2018? That’s what Alex Sink thinks could happen. At least she hopes itĀ might. The former CFO and 2010 gubernatorial candidate is angry about the passage of HB 7069, the massive education bill that includes $140 million for theĀ “Schools of Hope” program, which would bring charter school operators with proven success rates…

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Kathy Castor vows Cuba-Tampa Bay engagement will continue, despite Donald Trump’s rollback

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President Donald Trump told a crowd in Miami Friday he was keeping a campaign promise to roll back the “terrible and misleading deal” the Obama administrationĀ made with the Castro government in Cuba in 2014. Two hours later, U.S. RepresentativeĀ Kathy Castor told reporters that the work of engagingĀ the Tampa Bay area and the communist island will continue. “I think President Trump’s new policyĀ is regrettable and it takes us backward, because what it will do will really complicate our neighbor’s ability to…

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Plant City House Republican Dan Raulerson wants everyone to own a gun

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The attempted assassination Wednesday morning of Louisiana Republican Congressman Steve ScaliseĀ in suburban Washington D.C.Ā has shaken the nation. Certainly, lawmakers now realize how vulnerable they are to mentally unstable people with access to firearms who disagree with them politically. At Friday’s Tampa Tiger Bay Club, five members of the Hillsborough County Legislative Delegation were asked their thoughts on whatĀ the shooting means for Floridians, and the nation. Plant City Republican House member Dan Raulerson saidĀ the answer was simple ā€” everyone, especially lawmakers…

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