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		<title>Rick Scott appoints three to reconfigured Tampa Bay transit board</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Schorsch]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2017 09:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cliff Emanuel]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott announced three appointments to the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transit Authority, including one new member. Jim Holton, the owner and president of real estate investment and development business Holton Companies, will take over as the authority&#8217;s chair. Scott appointed Holton to TBARTA in 2015 as a regular member. The 63-year-old Indian Shores resident is an alumnus of Stanford and Boston universities and has been a board member at several Florida organizations. In the past, he&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hillsborough lawmakers clash during Tampa Chamber&#8217;s Session look-back</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2017 21:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jamie Grant]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As House Minority Leader Janet Cruz notes, the Hillsborough County Legislative Delegation works &#8220;as a united front&#8221; when representing their community in Tallahassee. That&#8217;s true on issues like the eleventh-hour move by the Florida Senate to push the University of South Florida out of pre-eminent status under a conformity education budget bill that passed in the waning hours of the legislative session two weeks ago. Over that matter, members acted in unison, denouncing what they said was a fundamental unfairness, leading&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Business leaders lobby Tampa Bay-area lawmakers on regional transit</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Ammann]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[The Bay and the 'Burg]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jack Latvala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Brandes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As for discussion over a proposed Senate regional transit bill for the Tampa Bay region, it’s all about timing. A group of a dozen local business executives arrived for a lobbying trip to Tallahassee just one day after a contentious Senate committee meeting where three Tampa Bay lawmakers clashed over a bill seeking to overhaul the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority (TBARTA). The nonprofit Tampa Bay partnership arranged the trip. The Tampa Bay Times reported that in a heated&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Joe Henderson: Proposed new transportation agency a good start toward solving an old problem</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Henderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dan Raulerson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillsborough]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Latvala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manatee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pinellas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Homans]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Short of hitting yourself in the head with a hammer, the surest way to get a headache is to wade deep into Tampa Bay area transportation problems. You encounter a mishmash of competing agencies and agendas that has resulted in legislative and automotive gridlock for frustrated commuters for years. Given that, I’m encouraged by what is coming out of Tallahassee. A pair of Republican legislators — state Sen. Jack Latvala of Clearwater and state Rep. Dan Raulerson of Plant City&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bill creating Tampa Bay area transit authority gets first hearing in Legislature</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amber Mariano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Raulerson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Latvala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jackie Toledo]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Legislation that would refigure the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transit Authority (TBARTA) had its first hearing in the Florida Legislature, where it became clear changes may be needed if its to pass. The bill was introduced by Clearwater state Senator Jack Latvala earlier this month, and is being sponsored in the House by Plant City Republican Dan Raulerson. The bill (HB 1243) creates a regional transit agency that would alter TBARTA by giving it direction to plan, implement and operate multimodal transit options throughout the region. It&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Janet Long lashes out at transit critics</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barb Haselden]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greenlight Pinellas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HART]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Latvala]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sharon Calvert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Partnership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tom Rask]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pinellas County Commissioner Janet Long was not happy. Last Monday, the board of the Hillsborough County Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) inserted revised language into a proposed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with PSTA to ensure that the agreement did not mean that the two transit agencies would be merging or preparing for a sales tax referendum pending because of it. That rankled some board members, who said that the agreement is simply to officially collaborate on more issues going forward. Upon&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PSTA climbs on board Janet Long’s &#8216;regional council of governments&#8217; idea</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anne Lindberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2016 17:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Department of Transportation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Members of the governing board of Pinellas’ bus transportation authority voted unanimously Wednesday to develop an agreement to coordinate with the Hillsborough transit authority. The agreement, which would be forwarded to the State Legislature, is a step to creating a regional council of governments that’s been proposed by Pinellas County Commissioner Janet Long. Long said the proposal is a “framework” for merging several governmental agencies into one regional organization that can provide regional solutions to transit, land and economic development,&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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