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Jim Kennedy is talking about the Rays, but he’s not ready to tell you what he’s saying

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St. Pete City Council member Jim Kennedy doesn’t want to talk about his version of a compromise that would finally move a long-stagnant Tampa Bay Rays debate. According to the Tampa Bay Times, Kennedy said he’d give details “in time.” Kennedy has long been an unwavering critic of a plan hatched by Mayor Rick Kriseman to allow the Major League Baseball team to look outside of St. Pete for alternative stadium sites. The problem is, the team has an ironclad…

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St. Pete City Council to take up school zone controversy, but may not have all the facts

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On Thursday, St. Petersburg’s City Council is scheduled to take up the city’s poorly designed school zones, but they might not be getting all the facts from the department of public works. After a WTSP/10 Investigates report had found the St. Petersburg Police Department wrote an astonishing number of school zone tickets at improperly signed school zones the city began, without fanfare, fixing problems at school crossings. A majority of these zones, according to WTSP reporter Noah Pransky, lacked proper signage…

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St. Pete millage rate will not go up next year

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St. Pete City Council tentatively approved a millage rate for the fiscal year 2016 budget during its meeting Thursday. Under the proposed budget the property taxes collected by the city would remain flat at a 6.77 millage rate. Council also approved public meeting dates to discuss the budget for September 3 and 17 at 7:30. City Council must approve a budget before October 1. City Council has to vote on a millage rate preemptively by August 4 in order to…

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Tropicana Field study, Pier fence to be debated this week in City Council

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There’s a full slate for St. Pete City Council Thursday afternoon. The eight-member board will address two of the city’s three most prevalent issues – the Pier and Tropicana Field. Councilmember Jim Kennedy placed an item on the agenda asking for an Urban Land Institute study looking at various options for development on the Tropicana Field site both with and without a stadium. It would “establish a vision with the development potential and scope of what the projects could include.…

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Rays stadium agreement gains one ‘yes;’ still doesn’t have enough support to pass

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After nearly five hours of back and forth and sometimes in a circle debate, St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman has walked away from a City Council workshop with one more vote in favor of an agreement to let the Tampa Bay Rays look at stadium sites outside of St. Pete in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties. Council member Amy Foster switched her no on the memorandum of understanding from a “no” to a “yes.” “I agree this is not enough money,”…

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Stadium deal no-voters on council are going to make enemies no matter what

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They’re damned if they do. They’re damned if they don’t. That’s likely how the majority of City Council feels about the impending conversation regarding the Rays, Tropicana Field and the future of baseball in Tampa Bay. As council convenes in its chambers for yet another workshop to discuss the longstanding stalemate between the baseball franchise and the city, five of them are again being criticized by the Tampa Bay Times. Cut a deal already, is the usual mantra of the…

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Contrary to Times editorial, Steve Kornell shouldn’t be ousted

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The Tampa Bay Times published an editorial Wednesday calling for the heads of five City Council members who voted against Mayor Rick Kriseman’s original deal brokered with the Tampa Bay Rays to allow them to look outside of St. Pete for potential stadium sites. The editorial, to put it mildly, was brutal. The Times’ editorial board called Wengay Newton and Bill Dudley lacking in leadership. It said Amy Foster ran for her seat based on business acumen, but has yet to show…

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