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Pinellas County to develop wage theft recovery program

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The reflection of a county-run wage theft recovery program is beginning to twinkle in the collective eye of Pinellas County’s Board of Commissioners. The seven-member group gave staff the go-ahead to develop the program’s criteria at its July 30 work session. The program will be designed by the Office of Human Rights, while the Board will provide feedback and direction throughout the process. It will revolve around a yet-to-be-established ordinance prohibiting wage theft. What the ordinance will do, in theory, is…

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Pinellas Democratic Party chair thinks it’s premature to speculate about CD 13 race

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(Updated with quote from Eric Lynn spokesman Bill Burton below). Even before a poll was released earlier this week that showed he would be an overwhelming underdog to former Gov. Charlie Crist in a Democratic primary election in Florida’s 13th Congressional District, Eric Lynn made it clear that he was committing to run for the seat next year. And that’s the way it should be, says Susan McGrath, chair of the Pinellas Democratic Executive Committee. “I don’t know why he would not stay in.…

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Eric Lynn says he’s in the CD13 race to stay

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Charlie Crist. Darden Rice. Ken Welch. Dwight Dudley. There are some prominent Democrats whose names have been floated in the media as possibilities to run in the CD 13 race next year, now that the district is likely to be much more advantageous for the party after the Florida Legislature redraws the district in advance of next year’s election. The Florida Supreme Court declared last week that a total of eight congressional districts need to be redrawn, after they declared…

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Florida Supreme Court’s direct impact on David Jolly’s CD 13 seat

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The already intriguing congressional race in Florida’s 13th District currently occupied by Republican David Jolly became even more so on Thursday, after the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the Legislature must redraw the district for being out of compliance with the Fair Districts constitutional amendments. The court ruled that eight districts in all must be redistricted, including the CD 14 currently held by Democrat Kathy Castor — which should have a direct impact on Jolly’s CD 13 seat. In its ruling, the…

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Proposed county funding for Community Redevelopment reduced by more than $6 million

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Pinellas County commissioners Tuesday approved moving forward with a plan that would allocate funding to some of St. Petersburg’s most impoverished areas. The city is prepared to reduce the amount of monetary contributions from Pinellas County into an already established Tax Incremental Fund by nearly $6.3 million to make that happen. Under a proposed deal Pinellas County would go from contributing 95 percent of the annual increment to just 85 percent under a planned negotiation between the city and the…

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How the CD 13 race might shake out if David Jolly opts to run for Florida Senate in ’16

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Although David Jolly has now publicly stated that he won’t make an official decision about leaving his congressional seat to run for the U.S. Senate until the 4th of July holiday, you can bet that he and his advisers are weighing the pros and cons of such a decision right now. One of his calculations simply has to be who might he be running against in a GOP primary. The other candidates in the mix: Fellow Florida U.S. Reps. Ron…

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Survey shows Pinellas residents mostly content

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Results of Pinellas County’s annual study of citizen values shows signs of improvement. Sarah Lindemuth, senior research director with HCP & Associates, presented results from the phone survey to commissioners during their March 24 meeting. The survey took place Jan. 26-Feb. 11. Calls were made to 200 citizens in four demographic areas -– north, mid, south and the beaches. The goal of the phone study, as well as a second study conducted online, is to “measure citizen expectations and perceptions…

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