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Mitch Perry Report for 10.14.15 — HRC says she’s a progressive who can win

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Good morning from the Motel 6 on Apalachee Parkway in Tallahassee. Okay, let’s get right into discussing last night’s Democratic rumble in Las Vegas. Experience matters. Although it’s been over seven years since she last engaged in a presidential debate, Hillary Clinton did battle it out with Barack Obama, John Edwards, Joe Biden and several other Democrats more than two dozen times in 2007-2008, and that experience showed last night in the first Democratic debate of the season. Sure, there…

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Guido Maniscalco latest lawmaker to take the minimum wage challenge

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Earlier this month, a number of Florida Democrats in the Legislature committed to taking the “minimum wage challenge,” a pledge to live on $17 each day for five days to illustrate what it’s like to live on Florida’s minimum wage, which is $8.05 an hour. The $17 comes from the amount a minimum wage worker might take home each day after taxes, childcare, and housing. The lawmakers are focusing attention on a bill sponsored by Democratic state Sen. Dwight Bullard from…

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Tampa City Council approves “compromise” proposal on civilian review board

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The Tampa City Council voted late Thursday afternoon to have Chairman Frank Reddick meet with Mayor Bob Buckhorn in an attempt to fashion a compromise on the vexing issue of how many members can the council select to be part of a police civilian review board. The motion, proposed by Councilwoman Lisa Monteleone, calls for City Council Attorney Martin Shelby to work with the city’s legal staff on a draft ordinance of Buckhorn’s executive order to create a civilian review board. The…

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Meltdown at Tampa City Council in latest skirmish on civilian review board issue

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The rocky relations between Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and the City Council deteriorated to a new low this morning at City Hall, after City Council Chair Frank Reddick angrily disagreed with City Attorney Julia Mandell’s choice of an attorney to review if her office has a conflict of interest regarding who she represents at City Hall. The fiery confrontation between the two ended with Reddick muttering, “I’m not going to be a butt-kisser to no one.” The larger issue regards the…

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Ed Narain among local officials supporting SEIU Fight for $15 campaign for child care workers

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The nationwide campaign to raise the wages of fast-food workers to $15 an hour is now incorporating that effort to include child care workers. The effort nationally and in Florida is being led by the Service Employees International Union. “We have to share the story to create a groundwell,” said Monica Russo, the president of SEIU Florida State Council, and executive vice president of 1199 SEIU. “We’re not going to get $15 and a union unless we fight for $15!…

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Tampa citizens not done expressing themselves to Hillsborough MPO on TBX project

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Last month, hundreds of concerned Tampa residents pleaded for the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) to reject the Florida Department of Transportation’s plans to expand I-275 by adding toll lanes that would cut through part of the city. Despite their pleas, only one MPO member (Guido Maniscalco) sided with the public. The multi-billion plan would add tolled express lanes from the Gateway area of St. Petersburg to Bearss Avenue. The lanes would give extra capacity for cars whose drivers were willing to pay a…

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Critics of Tampa Bay Express project now targeting Chamber of Commerce

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A Tampa grassroots organization still smarting over the decision by the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Organization to approve a controversial toll lanes project in Tampa is now directing its ire at the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce. Sunshine Citizens is a nascent group formed to oppose what is known as the Tampa Bay Express project, a multibillion-dollar plan from the Florida Department of Transportation that would add tolled express lanes on I-275 from the Gateway area of St. Petersburg to Bearss Avenue in north…

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