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Donald Trump stumps in Tampa

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Donald Trump is bringing his presidential campaign to Florida. The presumptive Republican nominee is set to appear Saturday at a campaign rally in Tampa. It begins at 11 a.m. Polls show Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton are tied in Florida, one of the nation’s biggest battleground states. Trump is striking a more welcoming tone after being slammed for suggesting that the judge hearing a case against his now-defunct Trump University is biased against him because the judge’s parents were born…

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Today on Context Florida: Greg Evers, loving Hispanics, demagogues and the ‘real America’

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Today on Context Florida: Peter Schorsch asks: How many times can Department of Corrections officials tick off Greg Evers before they’re really in for it? Last week at a news conference, Evers dropped the bomb that Corrections Secretary Julie Jones and one of her top aides had “lied” to him about the closing of a Broward County prisoner re-entry program. (Evers didn’t name Jones, but a department spokesman confirmed that’s who he had spoken with.) The question now is: When does…

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Democratic advertising blitz awaits Donald Trump

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Long before Donald Trump swatted away his Republican presidential rivals, his likely Democratic opponent and her allies began laying traps for him. Priorities USA, the lead super PAC backing Hillary Clinton, has already reserved $91 million in television advertising that will start next month and continue through Election Day. In addition, Clinton’s campaign and Priorities USA have both debuted online videos that cast Trump in a negative light — a preview of what voters will see on TV over the next six…

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Tampa Bay is like America, but more so

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Many red state politicians — and even POLITICO co-founder Jim VandeHei in a recent op-ed — often talk of a “real America,” a nation apart from the latte liberal denizens of our urban, coastal cities. But new research has found one of the most “normal” cities in America is right here in Florida — the greater Tampa Bay area. FiveThirtyEight’s Jed Kolko recently compared each major U.S. metropolitan area to the U.S. overall, based on age, educational attainment, and race and ethnicity, and discovered none…

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Tampa considers food donations to pay off parking tickets

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Looking for a way out of a parking ticket? Donate some canned goods to a food bank. That’s a proposal being considered by the Tampa City Council. The program would run for about a month over the winter holidays. Councilman Guido Maniscalco tells The Tampa Tribune the idea is to let people pay off some of their parking fines by donating food to the needy. Tallahassee launched a similar program in November that lets first-time parking offenders get $1 of credit…

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Lawsuit: Tampa strip club owes dancers $3.7 million

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Three former dancers and door girls from the Tampa gentleman’s club Thee Dollhouse have filed suit against the establishment, claiming they and others, are collectively owed millions in unpaid wages. The plaintiffs — Vikki Vellucci, 46, Lindsay Brizzi, 30 and Alissa Buckingham, 24 — say they are just a few of a potential 300 exotic dancers and door girls who were swindled by the Dollhouse over the last half decade. The three allege that the Dollhouse — which also operates as JBM Management Inc. — and…

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Shawn Harrison to host HD 63 re-election kickoff in Tampa

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Republican state Rep. Shawn Harrison is holding a campaign kickoff party Thursday evening for his House District 63 re-election effort. The event begins 5:30 p.m. at TPepin’s Hospitality Centre, 4121 N. 50th St. in Tampa. The Hillsborough County area seat is one that Florida Democrats are eyeing as a swing district they can switch in November. As the GOP incumbent, Harrison has momentum on his side, which should help to keep financial dominance over the pair of Democrats vying to…

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