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Mitch Perry Report for 4.29.16 – Trib frowns on Go Hillsborough vote

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Good morning,Ā y’all. Regular readers of this column may note that it’s being posted a little later this morning. Not to get into Too Much Information, but let’s just say I think when IĀ readĀ Arianna Huffington write that you must have 7/8 hours a sleep every night, well, one can certainly aspire to that. Rumor has it that Tampa attorneyĀ Bob Buesing will declare his candidacyĀ as a Democrat for the newly created Senate District 18 seat in Hillsborough County on Monday. Local Dems…

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Mitch Perry Report for 4.28.16 – Go Hillsborough goes down. Now what?

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It came down to, as we all knew it would, to the enigmatic Victor Crist. After more than four hours of discussion and debate, the decision about whether to place the Go Hillsborough half-cent sales tax on the November ballot was deadlocked between the Board of County Commissioners 3-3, which is what we had known for months. Crist mentioned popular opinion – according to his count, there had been 62 speakers who came before the board to say “yay” or…

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Hillsborough Commissioners vote down transportation tax on 4-3 vote

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The nearly three year long campaign to put a half-cent transportation tax on this November’s ballot in Hillsborough County died Wednesday night. After hearing from more than 60 people over four hours, theĀ Board of County Commissioners rejected the Go Hillsborough plan on a 4-3 vote. Saying that he was going with his “gut feeling,” Commissioner Victor Crist announced that he would oppose the measure, killing the hopes and dreams of Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and many people in Tampa who…

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Mitch Perry Report for 4.27.16 – Time for Hillsborough BOCC to make a decision

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Hillsborough County Commissioners unanimously approved increasing what used to be call impact fees but are now dubbed mobility fees. It’s actually a pretty big deal by itself, considering that they hadn’t done so since Ronald Reagan was still president. The fees are designed to have developers pay for the increase in construction to roads needed to handle the increased traffic. Fees for home developers building a house that range between 1,500-2,500 square feet would rise from $1,792 currently to $4,967…

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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 4.21.16 – Will Hillsborough adopt Palm Beach law regarding Uber and Lyft?

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Some quick hits before I hop on a plane… I know much of our news media would rather spend another day focusing on our national elections, what about what’s going on the world? A U.N. agency said yesterday that up to 500 may have died last week, whenĀ a large boat packed with migrants from Africa and the Middle East capsized in an unknown location between Libya and Italy. The BBCĀ reportsĀ that over 179,000 migrants have arrived in Europe in 2016 alone.…

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Hillsborough Commissioners approve Go Hillsborough project list

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Hillsborough County Commissioners voted unanimously on Wednesday to approve theĀ list of projects to be built in the unincorporated areas of the countyĀ in the Go Hillsborough plan.Ā The BOCC will vote next week on whether to put the half-cent sales tax on the November ballot. Commissioner Sandy Murman was the most vigilant board member to question county officials about specific projects on the list, though she did acknowledge her pleasure in that half of the money, and a third of those projects…

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Mitch Perry Report for 4.20.16 – Bernie’s chances may have just faded away, but how does Clinton handle him going forward?

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It was on May 8, 2008, after the returns from Democratic primary results from North Carolina and Indiana had come in, when the late Tim Russert told viewers that the intense battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton was over. “We now know who the Democratic nomineeā€™s going to be, and no oneā€™s going to dispute it,ā€ he said on MSNBC shortly after midnight Eastern time. ā€œThose closest to her will give her a hardheaded analysis, and if they lay…

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