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Mitch Perry Report for 7.9.15 — Pier politics returns yet again in St. Pete

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You’ve gotta love Tom Lambdon. Well, let me take that back. You don’t have to love anybody. In fact, there are many people in St. Petersburg who would hope to never hear this man’s name mentioned in polite company ever again. But civic activists like Lambdon wouldn’t get anywhere if they weren’t representing others who need someone to lead them. I mention the Safety Harbor resident because the St. Pete City Council is meeting today to consider contracts for Pier…

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The end for SaintPetersBlog

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

Mitch Perry Report for 6.23.15 — Will Rick Scott veto IMG Academy funding?

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Rick Scott has a week to sign the just passed $78.7 billion Florida budget, and he’s promising taxpayers that “I’m going to watch your money” as he reviews projectsĀ withĀ his veto pen. The Legislature’s last-minute addition of $300 million in pet local projects (including for a USF medical facility moving to downtown Tampa) has caused outrage in some circles as an example of governmentĀ notĀ operating under the Sunshine, and no particular project has raised more ire than the $2 million allocated for…

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Creative Loafing draws correlation to Pier petition and blue recycling bins

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SaintPetersblog has provided tireless coverage of St. Peteā€™s impending apocalyptic curbside recycling rollout. I say apocalyptic because youā€™d think the city was delivering nuclear waste to residentsā€™ driveways and front yards. Emails collected showed numerous complaints to city officials regarding the recycling bins’ size, color, location, weight, roll-ability, cost and overall forceful nature from which they magically appeared. Weā€™ve reported on the details ā€“ where do you put them? When do they get picked up? Why canā€™t they go in…

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Lesson in logic: Bob Buckhorn’s Chicago smack talk is OK because it’s not as bad as Hulk Hogan’s

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Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn doesnā€™t know ā€œsmack talkingā€ like Hulk Hogan, apparently. In a Facebook post Wednesday morning Buckhorn shared a Tampa Bay Times article about Hulk Hoganā€™s verbal and social media rivalry with Chicago wrestler CM Punk over the Lightning showdown with the Blackhawks. ā€œNow this is some smack talking,ā€ Buckhorn wrote. ā€œCareful though some bloggers may actually think they are serious.ā€ Buckhorn is likely referring either to me or Creative Loafingā€™s Kate Bradshaw or both. Bradshaw first called…

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Creative Loafing noshes on Rick Scott’s ‘word salad’

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Some people get their news from an old-fashioned paper while drinking a cup of coffee in the morning. Some wait until the evening to catch the local TV news. Others peruse social media randomly and consume current events one headline at a time. And then there are Creative Loafing readers. These are a bunch typically in the know. Theyā€™ve probably gotten the gist of the dayā€™s most important news from somewhere else. So, why do they head over to CL…

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Tampa Rep. Shawn Harrison a rare GOP member ‘open’ to Senate Medicaid expansion plan

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In a letter published Sunday in theĀ Tampa Tribune’sĀ editorial section, Tampa House District 63 Republican Shawn Harrison writes that he is “openĀ to a plan for private health coverage that draws down federal dollars with reasonable review, opt-out and sunset provisions included. Perhaps that can be some trial version of the Senate plan. “ But he adds in the very next paragraph that “all of us view the Senate plan in its current format with trepidation, and rightly so.” HarrisonĀ then goes on…

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Tampa voters voice their opinions on Election Day

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It is Election Day here in Tampa, and while the news so far today has been about the lackluster turnout, registered voters who have taken the time to vote certainly have opinions about some of the folks on the ballot. It wasn’t exactly bustling at the Seminole Heights Garden Center located on Central Avenue. While one poll worker at noon told us that she had seen about 30 voters come to the polls during the morning, the fact thatĀ aĀ reporter was…

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