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$75,000 grant aims to help Midtown residents open small businesses

Published on October 13, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

Low-income entrepreneurs in Midtown St. Pete now have a pool of $75,000 to work from to launch small businesses in the community. Thanks to a grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration presented to the Tampa Bay Black Business Investment Corp., hopeful business owners may now have access to the capital necessary to launch a new business. “Part of the vision 2020 plan that this community has worked so hard to develop targets young, smart entrepreneurs, but the challenge here…

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Rick Kriseman to announce federal grant program for low-income entrepreneurs

Published on October 12, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

St. Pete officials will announce a federal grant program aimed at expanding training and capital services for low-income entrepreneurs. Mayor Rick Kriseman and Deputy Mayor Kanika Tomalin will join U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor and the Tampa Bay Black Business Investment Corp. Tuesday to announce further details of the PRIME Project at 10 a.m. at 1123 22nd. Street South in St. Pete. PRIME stands for Program for Investment in Microentrepreneurs. The program is expected to help as many as 220 low-income…

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Sewage dump? What sewage dump?

Published on October 12, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

Gulfport residents and city officials weren’t happy with the City of St. Petersburg in early August when the city dumped 15 million gallons of untreated sewage into Clam Bayou resulting in Gulfport’s beach being shutdown due to unsafe contamination levels in Boca Ciega Bay. City Council was bombarded by residents lamenting there wasn’t enough communication between the cities regarding the dump. But now Gulfport is praising St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman for his collaboration with neighbors to clean up the…

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St. Pete to host mayors’ entrepreneurship conference next year

Published on October 8, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

The City of St. Petersburg has been chosen to host the 2016 Ewing Marion Kauffman Mayors’ Conference on Entrepreneurship next year. The news comes as St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman prepares to head home from this year’s conference in Albuquerque, N.M. “This conference will showcase the Sunshine City to mayors and visitors from across the country,” Kriseman said. “They will see up close that St. Petersburg is a city of opportunity for entrepreneurs, a place where dreamers can become doers.”…

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St. Pete City Council to ask Pinellas commissioners to hold off on allocating bed tax dollars until Rays deal is secured

Published on October 7, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

There’s not much going on at St. Pete City Council this week. The board is faced with only a handful of presentations from various groups around town and a change to an existing resolution. Even though nothing substantive is planned this week, the issue at hand is a biggie. The eight-member City Council is tasked with approving a revised resolution that would ask the Tourist Development Council and Pinellas County Commission to not allocate any tourist development funding that was…

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Two letters show mounting concerns over the St. Pete’s wastewater infrastructure

Published on October 7, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

The City of St. Pete continues to face mounting criticism over an early August wastewater dump of 31 million gallons of raw and partially treated sewage into Clam Bayou, Tampa Bay and the Eckerd College campus following a review of the city’s wastewater system. Two separate letters addressed to Mayor Rick Kriseman ask the city to conduct an independent review, not an internal one. “It became clear that this is not the independent inquiry that the City Council requested and…

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Rick Kriseman heads to Albuquerque to learn new ways to foster entrepreneurship

Published on October 6, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman is spending the next couple of days in Albuquerque, N.M., for the third annual Mayors Conference on Entrepreneurship. The event is just as it sounds; it’s aimed at helping mayors foster business growth in their communities. Kriseman will “discuss the role of cities and mayors in creating vibrant and innovative entrepreneurial economies” during the three-day conference. “I am pleased to join with my colleagues from across the country for this conference. Nourishing entrepreneurship and small…

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Rick Kriseman - page 60

$75,000 grant aims to help Midtown residents open small businesses

Rick Kriseman to announce federal grant program for low-income entrepreneurs

Sewage dump? What sewage dump?

St. Pete to host mayors’ entrepreneurship conference next year

St. Pete City Council to ask Pinellas commissioners to hold off on allocating bed tax dollars until Rays deal is secured

Two letters show mounting concerns over the St. Pete’s wastewater infrastructure

Rick Kriseman heads to Albuquerque to learn new ways to foster entrepreneurship

Rick Kriseman - page 60

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