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Wayne Atherholt has an incentive for supporting BP settlement plan

Published on October 20, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

St. Pete’s cultural affairs office director Wayne Atherholt has an idea to sweeten the deal for City Council to approve Mayor Rick Kriseman’s plan to include $1 million for an arts endowment in the uses for BP settlement funds. According to Nonprofit Quarterly, Atherholt wants to raise additional funds to add to the pot. Already, the mayor’s plan would create $40,000 a year in additional grant money available to the arts. That figure grows the more money is put into…

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Meet Cesar Fernandez, one of the ’30 under 30′ rising stars of Florida politics

Published on October 20, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Ryan Ray

There’s no doubt Cesar Fernandez stays plenty busy, but he’s happy to have turned in the Red Bull and cold pizza of his campaign days for more comfortable digs now that he works for Uber. Managing up to a half dozen “conversations” about transportation network companies at any one time with myriad Florida cities and counties, things still get hectic to be sure. But Fernandez – by now a familiar face to many observers of state politics – is glad to be playing…

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Radio Theater Project will mock your socks off Monday night

Published on October 19, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

The Radio Theater Project at The Studio @620 in downtown St. Pete is launching its seventh season Monday night with a special “All-Star Celebrity Episode of The Continuing Adventure of Noel Berlin. Those celebrities would be the voice of St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman (he’s out of town for a conference and pre-recorded his lines,) St. Pete City Council member Steve Kornell, food writer Janet Keeler, former Tampa Mayor Dick Greco and, yours truly. All of the characters play themselves…

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Darden Rice takes to Facebook to defend BP settlement plan

Published on October 18, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman has at least one ally on City Council when it comes to his plan to use $6.5 million awarded as a result of the BP oil spill lawsuit. In addition to flanking Kriseman at the press conference Wednesday announcing his plan, Darden Rice took to Facebook in support of the anticipated appropriations. “Putting aside some BP settlement money for fixing sewer pipes is totally reasonable and the right thing to do. But not all of…

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Mayoral appointment leads to opening on South St. Pete Citizen Advisory Committee

Published on October 15, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Devon Crumpacker

When St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman appointed attorney Leah McCrae to her new director of education and community engagement position, he inadvertently opened up a spot on the South St. Pete CRA Citizen Advisory Committee. McCrae, who was one of the committee’s original nine members, relinquished her role as a citizen adviser to the South St. Pete CRA to avoid any conflicts of interest her new post might have caused. South St. Pete’s CRA (community redevelopment area) was established by…

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Rick Kriseman asks for residents’ help to eradicate Veteran homelessness by year-end

Published on October 15, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman is nearing the end of a deadline he agreed to last year. In a 2014 call from First Lady Michelle Obama, Kriseman joined “The Mayors Challenge to End Veterans Homelessness,” seeking to end chronic homelessness among our nation’s veterans by the end of this year. “I am calling on property owners and landlords in our community to join forces with local government, veteran organizations, and social service providers to help provide housing for the brave…

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Jim Kennedy is talking about the Rays, but he’s not ready to tell you what he’s saying

Published on October 15, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

St. Pete City Council member Jim Kennedy doesn’t want to talk about his version of a compromise that would finally move a long-stagnant Tampa Bay Rays debate. According to the Tampa Bay Times, Kennedy said he’d give details “in time.” Kennedy has long been an unwavering critic of a plan hatched by Mayor Rick Kriseman to allow the Major League Baseball team to look outside of St. Pete for alternative stadium sites. The problem is, the team has an ironclad…

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Rick Kriseman - page 59

Wayne Atherholt has an incentive for supporting BP settlement plan

Meet Cesar Fernandez, one of the ’30 under 30′ rising stars of Florida politics

Radio Theater Project will mock your socks off Monday night

Darden Rice takes to Facebook to defend BP settlement plan

Mayoral appointment leads to opening on South St. Pete Citizen Advisory Committee

Rick Kriseman asks for residents’ help to eradicate Veteran homelessness by year-end

Jim Kennedy is talking about the Rays, but he’s not ready to tell you what he’s saying

Rick Kriseman - page 59

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