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St. Pete officials make the case for Enterprise Florida

Published on April 10, 2017 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

With less than a month to go for the Florida Legislature Regular Session, several major issues remain unresolved. No issue is more entertaining — on a purely political basis — than the debate among Republicans on the viability of Enterprise Florida. That’s the public-private partnership between Florida’s business and government leaders where recent records show has spent a lot more public than private money. And that’s a major reason Enterprise Florida has spent an entire year in the crosshairs of House…

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St. Petersburg Free Clinic buys Lealman building to expand food bank

Published on May 31, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Anne Lindberg

Bonnie Hechtkopf has searched for a way to honor her husband, Jared, ever since he died 15 years ago. She thinks she’s found it. Hechtkopf donated enough money to the St. Petersburg Free Clinic to buy a warehouse, rehab and renovate it to be used as a food bank that will provide food to more than 60,000 hungry people each month. It will be named the Jared S. Hechtkopf Community Food Bank. “This is perfect,” Hechtkopf said. “I wanted something…

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Rick Scott celebrates jobs and tax cuts in St. Pete

Published on March 14, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

Florida Governor Rick Scott is touring the state celebrating job creation and tax cuts. During a stop in St. Pete Monday on his “Million, Billion Jobs Victory Tour” Scott announced 44,300 new private sector jobs in the Tampa Bay area over the course of a year. The region’s unemployment rate also dropped one percent to 4.8 percent in January. The state unemployment rate is five percent. Scott stopped at Kobie Marketing in St. Pete for the announcement where that company…

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