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Four Pinellas mayors endorse Jack Latvala

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Clearwater Mayor Frank Hibbard, Pinellas Park Mayor Bill Mischler, Safety Harbor Mayor Andy Steingold, and Oldsmar Mayor Jim Ronecker today joined St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker in endorsing Jack Latvala for the Florida Senate, District 16. “Every day I can look around my city and see evidence of the accomplishments of Jack Latvala when he previously served in the Florida Senate – the Clearwater Memorial Causeway Bridge, the Willa Carson Health Resource Center, and Bayview Park to name just a…

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Tiger Bay: 2010 legislative preview with Rep. Ed Hooper and Rep. Rick Kriseman

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If space aliens were to land in our fair State and seek to ascertain the burning issues of import to our society by examining the recent acts of our Legislature, they would come to understand that we, as Floridians, care very deeply about young men wearing droopy pants which expose the tops of their boxers. They would also determine that we take grave offense to those who would display metallic replicas of bull reproductive organs on the backs of their…

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Bill McCollum’s holiday f-raiser in Clearwater

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Rock-a-Thon 2009

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In October of 2005, Jim Rexroad, a Pinellas Park Police Officer, lost a childhood friend to Leukemia. He passed away at the age of 40 leaving behind two children and a wife. Victor Griffin, a deputy with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, is providing support to a family member who is courageously battling the same disease. On October 18, 2006, Victor’s nephew finally lost his battle with this disease at the age of 40. He left behind a wife and…

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Save BayWalk

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News is breaking this evening that two days after he took over BayWalk, interim property manager Howard Rosenthal was arrested Thursday by Pinellas Sheriff’s detectives accused of stealing almost $171,000 from his former company, Colliers Arnold of Clearwater. This is yet another black eye on one of the most important parts of downtown St. Pete. I could make the argument that it was the development of Baywalk, more than any other effort, that has led to the revitalization of downtown…

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There’s a sale on italic letters at The Mallard Group

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Imagine, you are a political candidate still searching for a graphic identity…you’ve wavered between Times New Roman or Arial…serif or sans serif…bold or reversed-out. Oh, the decisions a candidate has to make. You never thought it was going to be this difficult when you first decided to run for office, but here you are months into your campaign and all you have is a stupid badge you bought at Office Depot. It doesn’t even have your name spelled right. Then,…

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