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Les Miller on Tampa Bay Express issue: The votes weren’t there

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Last week, the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization approved a $3 billion plan to add express toll lanes to Interstates 275 and 4 and rebuild the northbound lanes of the Howard Frankland Bridge. The vote was whether to include the proposal, dubbed by the Florida Department of Transportation as the Tampa Bay Express (TBX), in the MPO’s transit improvement plan (TIP). A total of 62 people testified before the board, 54 of them calling on the agency to remove the “TBX out of…

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Parsons Brinckerhoff contributes $5,000 to Bob Buckhorn’s PAC

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Next Thursday, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn will sit along with his colleagues on the Hillsborough County Policy Leadership Group on whether or not to support the half-cent transportation tax proposal announced last month by County Administrator Mike Merrill and Parsons Brinckerhoff. Parsons Brinckerhoff is the national transportation consultant hired by the county last year for $900,000 to help facilitate the public outreach effort regarding transportation issues in the county. Although there has been criticism about the plan from a variety of…

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Tom Scott is the latest Democrat in Hillsborough County Commission District 6 race

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After months of hinting about it, Thomas Scott made it official late last week and became the third Democrat to enter the contest for the Hillsborough County Commission District 6 countywide seat being vacated by a term-limited Kevin Beckner next year. “You’re talking about a candidate who has good strong name recognition throughout the county, not just in the city,” Scott said last Friday about himself, a day after officially filing to enter the race. “I’ve been out in front…

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Former Fox 13 personalities tout Eric Seidel’s candidacy for Hillsborough Clerk of the Courts

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In terms of local elections, Clerk of the Circuit Court generally resides as among the least sexy in terms of garnering much interest from the news media and the public. But that’s not the case in Hillsborough County this year, where there’s already been an unusual amount of attention paid to next year’s election, ever since soon-to-be-termed-out-of-office Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin Beckner announced right before Easter that he would challenge Democratic incumbent Pat Frank in 2016. Beckner said he believed Frank…

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Victor Crist insists entire BOCC wants to pass an effective wage-theft ordinance

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For the second time in the past month, the conservative editorial page at the Tampa Tribune is taking the five Republicans on the Hillsborough County Commission to task for their approach in resisting a proposal offered by Democrat Kevin Beckner on a wage-theft ordinance. Last week the GOP-led majority of the BOCC fought back efforts to pass a wage-theft ordinance based on a model created in Miami-Dade County in 2010, the first such ordinance of its type in Florida and one still…

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Without formal fundraising, Eric Seidel nets $30K for Hillsborough clerk’s race

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Consumer attorney and former television personality Eric Seidel announced healthy fundraising numbers in his campaign for Hillsborough County Clerk of the Circuit Court. Seidel, 52, a longtime consumer lawyer for Tampa Fox affiliate WTVT-Ch. 13, raised more than $30,000 in his campaign’s first month, despite no organized fundraising efforts. He is the first Republican and only legal professional so far in the race. Term-limited Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin Beckner has also filed to run as a Democrat. “We haven’t even had a…

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Hillsborough County begins financing plan to address violence

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As gun violence has been increasing alarmingly in Tampa and other parts of the United States, the Hillsborough County Commission acted Wednesday to fund the first steps in a process to address such criminal behavior in the county. The board approved $233,588 to give to the Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa (CDC) to become the agency to lead the “Safe and Sound” plan proposed by the county’s Violence Prevention Collaborative. The agreement is for one year, and will provide services related to the health and…

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