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Governor announces Inside Sales relocation to St. Pete, 50 new jobs

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Gov. Rick Scott announced marketing company Inside Sales Solutions will be moving its headquarters to St. Petersburg’s Innovation District. The move adds 50 jobs and an estimated $29,000 in investments to Pinellas County. “I am proud to announce that Inside Sales is a growing company that chose Florida over Texas, Georgia, and Kansas,” Scott said in a prepared statement Thursday. “Inside Sales also plans to relocate their national headquarters from New York in the near future. I am proud that…

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St. Petersburg launches ‘Ready for 100’ clean energy campaign

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In St. Petersburg, Mayor Rick Kriseman has been a leader in taking steps to contend with the deleterious affects with climate change and sea level rise. That includes signing an executive order last August creating the office of sustainability, and now signing a Sierra Club back initiative that aims to have St. Pete become the first city in Florida to depend solely on clean, renewable energy. The #ReadyFor100 campaign was initiated by the national environment organization last year. It’s goal challenging 100 cities…

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#9 on list of Tampa Bay’s Most Powerful Politicians — Rick Kriseman

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Halfway through his first term as St. Petersburg mayor, Rick Kriseman has been on a roll of late. Moving up from 11th place in last year’s survey, he also appears likely to win re-election next year. One of his biggest victories came in January, when City Council approved a deal to let the Tampa Bay Rays look for a new stadium site in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties. The mayor also earned much goodwill and national prominence in December when he…

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Kathy Castor joining President Obama in trip to Cuba next week

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Tampa/St. Petersburg Congresswoman Kathy Castor announced on Monday that she has been asked by President Obama to join him and the First Lady on his historic trip to Cuba, which begins on Sunday. “This monumental and historic step is needed to help turn the page on a failed policy of isolation and move forward with greater engagement and normalizing relations with Cuba,” Castor said. “President Obama and the congressional delegation’s visit will encourage further economic and human rights changes on the…

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Rick Scott celebrates jobs and tax cuts in St. Pete

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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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Al Lang Stadium expansion wouldn’t rob Rays stadium money

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A proposed expansion of Al Lang Stadium on the downtown St. Pete waterfront would require bed tax funds from the county. So would a new baseball stadium if the Rays decide to stay in St. Pete. But contrary to buzz following reports Tuesday on the proposal, one project would not rob funds from the other. According to Pinellas County Commissioner Ken Welch, the two projects would receive funding from different pots within the county’s bed tax revenue. “We ‘reserve’ approximately…

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Tampa Bay Partnership asks Richard Corcoran to embrace Rick Scott’s Enterprise Florida deal

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When pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb announced in 2013 that they would be locating its capability center in Tampa, company executives weren’t doing so just because they liked the weather in the Sunshine State. In choosing the area over 50 other locations around the country, Hillsborough County and the state of Florida had to play ball, giving out major tax breaks to incentivize the corporate giant to relocate here. The County guaranteed $2.1 million in tax incentives,and the state added nearly…

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