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Toast of the Bay/Dump in the Bay: Rick Kriseman and Jamal Bryant

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As a growing center of arts and culture, a booming mecca of craft beer and gastropubs and an emerging epicenter of millennial life, St. Pete is churning out headlines quicker than it ever has before. The city find itself a growing part of regional and even national conversations with a progressive mayor on the forefront of new policy ideas aimed at lifting people in poverty, promoting diversity and increasing sustainability. Because of the city’s emergence as a regional powerhouse, it…

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St. Pete City Council furthers talk on fossil fuel divestment

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St. Petersburg City Council members are considering divesting the city from fossil fuels. During a meeting Thursday, the eight-member board voted unanimously to refer to the Budget, Finance and Taxation Committee a divestment measure recommended by Mayor Rick Kriseman. The measure would affect city pensions where investments are currently placed strategically to incur the most financial benefit. City Council approval of the issue would remove fossil fuel industries from those investments. Kriseman pushed the issue as a way to encourage…

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Jeff Atwater lays out legislative wish list

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Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater says he’s “championing” bills this legislative session in three policy areas: Life insurance, divestment from Iran, and medical billing. Atwater, first elected in 2010, laid out his priorities in an email sent Wednesday. Life insurance: Atwater wants to “ensure that insurance companies will utilize current technology and public information that will assist them in determining when a policyholder has passed away and policy benefits need to be paid.” In fact, he’s supporting SB 966, filed by GOP…

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