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The irony of how redistricting has resurrected Charlie Crist

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While thinning files last week, I came across one labeled “Crist” and wondered whether to dump it. After successive losses for the U.S. Senate and for governor again, hadn’t Charlie reached the end of the line? No, I thought, something will happen to bring him back. The next day, something did. It was the Florida Supreme Court’s dramatic decision to order major changes in eight of Florida’s gerrymandered congressional districts. Among them are the 13th, lying exclusively within Pinellas County,…

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New Pinellas County crash data: teen drivers, pedestrian and bicycle accidents draw concern

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Pinellas County’s Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) reviewed the area’s newly released 2014 Crash Data Report during their July 8 regular meeting. The report examines crash data between 2011 and 2013, with the compilers having taken 2014 to organize and make sense of the statistics. Data from car, motorcycle, bicycle and pedestrian- related crashes were recorded. Like life, the report entertains both the good and the bad. The Good Total Pinellas County fatalities dropped 35 percent over the three-year span, despite…

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The definitive guide to Pinellas County Fourth of July fireworks and festivities

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What’s the Fourth all about here in Pinellas County? At heart, it’s about the same thing here as it is all across the Land of the Brave. Food and fireworks. And community and national pride and patriotism, of course. But mainly fireworks, right? Fireworks and celebration anyway. So we’ve amassed a list of all the best spots in Pinellas County to experience these great American summer holiday themes. So go forth, be merry, and remember the words of Benjamin Rush,…

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Pinellas County home sales leveling out

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Pinellas County home sales, after several months on the rise, have seemingly leveled out, says the Pinellas Realtor Organization (PRO) in its May 2015 real estate statistics. The combined 2,029 single family homes, townhouses and condos sold in Pinellas County during May 2015 was down from 2,103 in April 2015. A more accurate indicator of Pinellas County’s leveling home sales: year-over-year combined sales stats for single-family houses, townhouses, and condos. Just a 10 percent increase in these types of Pinellas…

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Showing results: Florida’s most aggressive poverty reduction plan to date

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A five-year, $170 million investment plan to reduce poverty and stimulate job growth in South St. Pete is “exceeding expectations,” according to a midyear progress report released by the Pinellas County Urban League this June. The city- and county-backed project is called the 2020 Plan — named after its expected completion year — and it’s being hailed as the most aggressive poverty reduction effort ever attempted in the State of Florida. The newly released report measures progress associated with each…

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Summer’s here, so fertilizer’s gone

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Summer rains are here, and with them, residential and urban runoff. Each summer these runoffs carry surface-level pollutants into Florida’s waterways. And arguably none are more environmentally detrimental than the nitrogen and phosphorus found in fertilizer. Pinellas County and surrounding areas, to counteract the problem, have enacted a summer fertilizer ban. Be Floridian, a service of the Tampa Bay Estuary Program, is spearheading an accompanying awareness campaign. From June 1 to Sept. 30 the organization is championing various alternative lawn-care…

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Innisbrook has a chronic tax dispute problem

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No one wants to pay taxes, but surely few have gone to such extensive lengths as owners of the Innisbrook Golf Course and Resort in Palm Harbor to avoid paying them. Or at least all of them. Owners of the posh members-only style property have been fighting tax bills since 1998. Between the first dispute until 2002 Innisbrook owners owed $2.2 million in back taxes they refused to pay because, they argued, then Property Appraiser Jim Smith over-appraised the property.…

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