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Frank Reddick says throat-cutting gesture at council meeting “shocked” him

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Tampa City Councilman Frank Reddick says all he wants is a fair investigation. Reddick filed an internal affairs complaint Tuesday against Vincent Gericitano, the president of the Tampa Police Benevolent Association. The complaint is in reference to the throat-slashing gesture that Reddick maintains Gericitano performed at last week’s Council meeting, after Reddick’s name was mentioned as the Council was voting on who their chairman would be for the upcoming year. The council went through 13 different ballots before ultimately choosing Councilman Mike…

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Mike Suarez selected as chairman of Tampa City Council

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It wasn’t pretty. In fact, at the end it got downright ugly, but after a half-hour of voting and and intense discussion, the Tampa City Council elected Mike Suarez on Thursday to be its chairman. It took 14 different ballots to get there. The first 12 times around, it remained deadlocked between three candidates: Suarez, Harry Cohen and presiding chairman Frank Reddick. Councilman Charlie Miranda nominated Suarez, and the two voted for Suarez every time. Councilwoman Yolie Capin nominated Reddick, and with…

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Frank Reddick would be OK with being Tampa City Council chairman again, or not

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In 2015, Frank Reddick emerged in a much-anticipated vote as the surprise new chairman of Tampa City Council, which had gone to Charlie Miranda the previous four years. Reddick now says he’d like another another year with the gig. “I was given an opportunity to serve and I think I was able to do a pretty decent job in organizing and keeping the council on track to move forward and getting the agenda done in a timely matter, and I think…

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Bob Buckhorn poised to sign law decriminalizing marijuana in Tampa

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The City of Tampa will join other towns across the nation in attempting to fight back on the war on drugs. On second hearing, the City Council on Thursday voted 5-1 to approve a new ordinance that decriminalizes the possession of marijuana. Tampa Police officers will now have the discretion of writing up a citation for anybody caught with less than 20 grams of pot. A first offense would be $75. A second would be $150, a third $300 and…

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Tampa City Council passes resolution opposing Trans Pacific Partnership

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The Tampa City Council on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution calling on elected officials in Congress to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the controversial free trade agreement between the U.S. and 11 Pacific Rim nations. It’s intended to reduce trade barriers between the 12 countries by lowering tariffs on goods, coordinating regulations and much more. The proposal was presented by Council Chair Frank Reddick, and was supported by labor activists who fear that passage of the agreement will make it easier for…

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Tampa City Council OKs decriminalization of pot possession

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Following in the footsteps of other localities around the state and the country, the Tampa City Council has approved on first reading a proposal to reduce the penalty for possession of small amounts of marijuana. The measure passed by a 6-1 vote on Thursday, with Council member Charlie Miranda, the lone dissenter. The proposal calls for a $75 fine for people found in possession of fewer than 20 grams of weed. A second offense would raise the fine to $150,…

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Harry Cohen says that stormwater plans of some sort will come back to Tampa City Council

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Last November, the Tampa City Council narrowly rejected a plan by Mayor Bob Buckhorn’s administration that aimed to alleviate the Cigar City’s epic problems with stormwater runoff. But Councilman Harry Cohen suggested on Friday that there will be a new plan to vote on sometime in 2016. “I’m confident that the city is going to put forth a new proposal this year that will be funded differently and that will look at dealing with the same problems, but perhaps come…

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