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Pinellas News calls it quits, so does ‘It’s Your Times’

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It wasn’t a banner week for St. Petersburg’s journalism community.  As Becky Bowers reports, the Pinellas News is calling it quits….the Pinellas News, which (Robert) Potter bought 17 years ago, will simply cease to be. He spent Wednesday writing its obituary. The world has been changing, he notes. AOL and the modem reshaped our lives. The dwindling legal notices business reshaped his. Potter has been down this path before: the time-to-change-careers path. A week before his wedding in the 1980s, his…

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More trouble for April Sheffield

Just as the story is breaking about April Sheffield’s multiple issues before the Florida Election Commission, another story is developing.

Winners & Losers from Pinellas’ elections

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Today’s city commissioner is tomorrow’s state legislator. And today’s state legislator is tomorrow’s congressional candidate. Or so I’ve always thought and that’s why I always pay attention to the results of even the smallest town’s municipal elections. Yesterday’s slate of elections in Pinellas County certainly provided a list of winners and losers and I’m not just talking about the candidates. Here is my list of who won and who lost as a result of Pinellas’ municipal elections. Winners: The most…

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Winners and Losers from Pinellas’ elections

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Today’s city commissioner is tomorrow’s state legislator. And today’s state legislator is tomorrow’s congressional candidate. Or so I’ve always thought and that’s why I always pay attention to the results of even the smallest town’s municipal elections. Yesterday’s slate of elections in Pinellas County certainly provided a list of winners and losers and I’m not just talking about the candidates. Here is my list of who won and who lost as a result of Pinellas’ municipal elections. Winners: The most…

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Can an African-American win in Tarpon Springs? Can the Stonewall Democrats win another race? And other intriguing questions from Pinellas’ elections

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Tomorrow is Election Day tomorrow in Pinellas. Check back often with Saint Petersblog for updates, photos and results from interesting races in Clearwater, Gulfport, Oldsmar and Tarpon Springs. Here’s are the story lines I’ll be following: Can an African-American candidate win in Tarpon Springs? City Commissioner David Archie is facing off against my friend Matt King to replace Beverly Biliris as the next Mayor of the City of Sponges. And while there have been plenty of issues discussed on the…

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Can an African-American win in Tarpon Springs? Can the Stonewall Democrats win another race? And other intriguing questions from Pinellas’ elections

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Tomorrow is Election Day tomorrow in Pinellas. Check back often with Saint Petersblog for updates, photos and results from interesting races in Clearwater, Gulfport, Oldsmar and Tarpon Springs. Here’s are the story lines I’ll be following: Can an African-American candidate win in Tarpon Springs? City Commissioner David Archie is facing off against my friend Matt King to replace Beverly Biliris as the next Mayor of the City of Sponges. And while there have been plenty issues discussed on the campaign…

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Saint Petersblog’s influence, measured by readership and by impacting PolitiFact

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Quite frankly, this was a great week for Saint Petersblog. Readership continues to increase. Measured by Google Analytics, 7,832 viewers read Saint Petersblog on Monday, March 1, a day unmarked by any major event to drive traffic, in fact, Monday was just a typical day on the blogs. Wednesday and Thursday’s traffic was even busier than Monday’s, probably due to the interest in my post on Rep. Jim Frishe’s cousin on American Idol and the story about the vampire running…

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Saint Petersblog’s influence, measured by readership and by impacting PolitiFact

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Quite frankly, this was a great week for Saint Petersblog. Readership continues to increase. Measured by Google Analytics, 7,832 viewers read Saint Petersblog on Monday, March 1, a day unmarked by any major event to drive traffic, in fact, Monday was just a typical day on the blogs. Wednesday and Thursday’s traffic was even busier than Monday’s, probably due to the interest in my post on Rep. Jim Frishe’s cousin on American Idol and the story about the vampire running…

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