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House budget panel hears from Rick Scott’s budget chief, and vice versa

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The House Appropriations Committee heard from Gov. Rick Scott‘s chief budget aide Tuesday afternoon, who presented Scott’s $79.3 billion proposed budget for the 2016-2017 fiscal year before being peppered with questions on taxes, state worker pay, hospital regulation and land acquisition among other issues. Cynthia Kelly, director of Scott’s Office of Policy and Budget presented the governor’s “Florida First” budget, the sixth since such proposal Scott took office in 2011. Kelly began with an upbeat presentation, touting gains in revenue growth bolstered by…

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Is it “expanding gambling” to sell lottery tickets at gas pumps?

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Legislation is moving in the Legislature that would allow people to buy their lottery tickets at the gas pump despite a lingering question that the measure is an expansion of gambling. The question is more than moral or academic: Expanded gambling is a condition for the Seminole Tribe of Florida to stop sharing revenue from its casinos. The tribe kicks more than $200 million a year into state coffers. “Any expansion of gaming or use of lottery vending machines, beyond what…

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Tierra Verde fire district bill looks all but doomed

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A plan to give Tierra Verde residents a path toward creating an independent fire district will probably be dead on arrival in the 2016 Legislative Session despite being approved by the Pinellas County Legislative Delegation during a meeting at USF St. Pete Tuesday. A bill sponsored by Representative Kathleen Peters and Senator Jack Latvala would allow residents in the upscale waterfront community to force a referendum asking voters whether or not to approve a new fire district by compiling petitions…

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Mitch Perry Report for 9.30.15 — Ybor and Florida lose out to Georgia in Hollywood production

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2015 was supposed to be the year that the Florida Legislature authorized funding to replenish its depleted film tax incentives package, allowing the Sunshine State to compete with Louisiana, Georgia and other Southeastern states in getting its fair share of movie and television production work. It didn’t happen. Despite the reshaping of the incentives and the advocacy of Tampa Bay area state lawmakers like Jack Latvala and Nancy Detert, once again the entertainment community struck out in Tallahassee. One of…

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Darryl Rouson challenged by School Board Chair Linda Lerner on South St. Pete school crisis

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Reaction was fierce and accusatory in the immediate wake of the revelations of a Tampa Bay Times story published last month that traced the Pinellas County School Board’s role in resegregating five elementary schools and having them turn into some of the worst performing ones in Florida. St. Petersburg-based House Democrat Darryl Rouson called on the Florida attorney general’s office of civil rights to investigate whether the Pinellas County School Board’s decision in 2007 had resulted in discrimination against black students. At a Suncoast…

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In St. Pete, Dwight Dudley and Eric Lynn vow to live on minimum wages for a week

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Democratic state Rep. Dwight Dudley and CD 13 candidate Eric Lynn announced at a press conference outside of a McDonald’s in north St. Petersburg on Monday that they will live on minimum wages for the duration of this week, to show their support for workers striving to get the minimum wage raised to $15 an hour. Last week, a total of 18 Democrats in the Legislature announced they would take the “Minimum Wage  Challenge.” Two other local lawmakers said to be…

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The end for SaintPetersBlog

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

Mitch Perry Report for 9.28.15 — USF’s wandering eye

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Happy Monday/General Assembly Day at the UN, everyone. Lots of things were happening over the weekend, but let’s transition into the working week by applauding the University of Florida Gators for its miraculous comeback victory over Tennessee, 28-27, early Saturday night in Gainesville. The victory puts UF in the  Associated Press Top 25 for the first time in two years. Both FSU and USF took the week off. The Bulls return this Friday night to action, hosting Memphis at Raymond James…

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