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Rick Kriseman tells Jack Latvala his focus will remain on keeping the Rays in St. Pete

Published on April 26, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

Rick Kriseman responded formally on Tuesday to Jack Latvala’s admonishment that he’s being too parochial in forming a committee to try to keep the Tampa Bay Rays in St. Pete. The St. Petersburg Mayor says his job is keep large employers and good corporate citizens like the Rays in his city, and that’s what he’s going to continue to do. “I am proud of the agreement we reached and proud of our City Council for understanding that not allowing the Rays…

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Mitch Perry Report for 4.26.16 – Collusion politics

Published on April 26, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg by Mitch Perry

Although registration for Republicans have surged in a number of states this primary season, the larger trend is that people are becoming more disaffected by our two major political parties, and signing up as independents. And with Democratic superdelegates on one side, and top ranking GOP officials seemingly doing whatever they can to try to legitimately deny Donald Trump the presidential nomination on the other, their brands are being further tarnished. Yesterday, Dwight Dudley announced the won’t run for re-election to his…

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Jack Latvala wants Rick Kriseman to consider Pinellas County, and not just St. Petersburg, for future home of the Rays

Published on April 25, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

Shortly after the St. Petersburg City Council finally granted the Tampa Bay Rays management permission to negotiate with Hillsborough County officials regarding a potential new ballpark, St. Pete officials introduced a new project to assure fans that they would move heaven and earth to keep the team in the ‘burg. In late February came the Baseball Forever Campaign, an initiative spearheaded by the City of St. Pete and the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce. “There’s no better place to…

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Mitch Perry Report 4.7.16 – Gay Talese, meet Twitter

Published on April 7, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

Gay Talese is one of the great American reporters of our time. Now 84, Talese was considered part of the New Journalism that took the country by storm in the 1960s. I’m going to write about his new book in a moment, but I confess that I’m a little late to the party regarding the contretemps he started up last weekend. That’s when he was asked at a conference at Boston University about women writers who had inspired him and replied,…

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Rick Kriseman tells Charlotte Observer that St. Pete is “welcoming, inclusive and open for business”

Published on April 6, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

The good-natured rivalry between Tampa Bay area Mayors Bob Buckhorn and Rick Kriseman now transcends Major League Baseball, with both of them pitching their cities to businesses looking to relocate because of ordinances perceived to be discriminatory to the LGBT community. The St. Petersburg mayor wrote an op-ed that appeared on The Charlotte Observer‘s website on Wednesday, where he writes that “there has never been a better time for Florida, and especially St. Petersburg, to send the message that we are…

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Planned Parenthood official tells crowd it’s guilty only of helping women

Published on April 5, 2016 in 2017/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

Planned Parenthood has never been under fire (sometimes literally) as they have been in the past year. The reproductive rights organization has had to contend with a series of blows that began last summer with a series of secretly recorded videos purporting to show its officials trying to profit illegally from selling fetal tissues. “As you know, it took America by storm, and we started to fight for our lives, and actually it began this small progression of horribles that…

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Carlos Lopez-Cantera says Cuban government taking advantage of U.S.

Published on March 28, 2016 in 2017/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

Being a descendant of Cuban exiles, it’s no surprise that Carlos Lopez-Cantera takes a dim view of President Barack Obama’s rapprochement with the Raul Castro-led government. “They’ve figured out our political system. They’ve seen how our political system works,” the Lieutenant Governor and U.S. Senate candidate said in a speech at the Tampa Economic Club on Monday. Because it’s a presidential election year with many in Congress running for re-election, he said, Cuban leaders are ” taking advantage of this country right…

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Rick Kriseman - page 41

Rick Kriseman tells Jack Latvala his focus will remain on keeping the Rays in St. Pete

Mitch Perry Report for 4.26.16 – Collusion politics

Jack Latvala wants Rick Kriseman to consider Pinellas County, and not just St. Petersburg, for future home of the Rays

Mitch Perry Report 4.7.16 – Gay Talese, meet Twitter

Rick Kriseman tells Charlotte Observer that St. Pete is “welcoming, inclusive and open for business”

Planned Parenthood official tells crowd it’s guilty only of helping women

Carlos Lopez-Cantera says Cuban government taking advantage of U.S.

Rick Kriseman - page 41

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