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Bob Buckhorn makes the pitch for a stormwater tax while presenting budget to City Council

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Although Bob Buckhorn has been known to quote Alicia Keys in saying that his city of Tampa is “on fire” when it comes to its economic development and overall dynamism, the Mayor was noticeably more sober in assessing the city’s economic future on Thursday. Buckhorn spent more than 75 minutes in front of the Tampa City Council to in presenting his fiscal year $904.9 million 2017 budget. He spent an exhaustive 40 minutes to elaborate all that is going on with the…

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Carly Fiorina says too many Americans have “flat, hopeless look”

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Call her the anti-Hillary. Carly Fiorina is the only woman considered a possible candidate for the Republican nomination for president in the current field. She presented a refined performance Saturday before hundreds of New Hampshire Republicans in the First in the Nation Republican Leadership Summit in Nashua. “Hilary Clinton must not become president of the United States,” Fiorina said in her speech, hardly a novel concept among speakers at this forum. “I was asked this morning on Fox News about…

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Rockefeller Christmas Tree lighting tonight

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New York City will be rocking tonight at the Rockefeller Center. The Radio City Rockettes, Alicia Keys, Michael Buble, Shakira, Aretha Franklin, Barry Manilow, and host Jane Krakowski and Zachary Levi, will be on hand to help ring in the holiday season at the annual 2009 Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Ceremony. The Christmas tradition that began in 1933, is still delighting families many years later. The Rockefeller Center plaza heading towards the tree is occupied by the traditional horn-blowing angels.…

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