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USA Today owner Gannett bids for Tribune Publishing

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Newspaper publisher Gannett said Monday that it wants to buy rival Tribune Publishing for more than $388 million, in a deal that would give the owner of USA Today control of the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and several other newspapers. But Gannett said Monday that Tribune has refused to begin “constructive discussions” about a deal since it first offered to buy the company earlier this month. Tribune confirmed Monday that it received the unsolicited offer and said it…

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Mitch Perry Report for 4.13.16 – Sean Payton’s lament

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Here’s a news flash: we’re all going to die. Ideally, it’d be after a long life, but we know that it always doesn’t work out like that. Whether through illness or accident, there’s always the potential for today to be our last day. But nothing brings death quicker than a gun. There are gun deaths that happen every day in American; once in a while, when more than a few people (usually white) die at one time, it makes news.…

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The end for SaintPetersBlog

Ever since I acquired the rights to the perfect domain for my efforts — FloridaPolitics.com — I knew that one

Montel Williams says John Kasich is right “adult” in GOP race

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Republican presidential hopeful John Kasich just might be the candidate to bring Montel Williams back to the GOP. In an USA TODAY op-ed Friday, Montel, a former talk show host, military veteran and political commentator, calls the Ohio Governor the right “adult” in the Republican race to occupy the White House. “If there’s one thing 22 years in the military taught me,” Williams wrote, “it’s that we need an adult in the White House. Someone who’ll stand up to our…

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Mitch Perry Report for 12.9.15 – Welcome to the new world of policing

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There is a story in Wednesday morning’s New York Times quoting a variety of police chiefs across the country bemoaning how the prevalence of video cameras are changing the way they do their jobs, and makes it harder for them – even when those cameras come from their own agencies. Since the fall of 2014 when incidents exploded in Ferguson and Staten Island, and Walter Scott was killed in South Carolina, a series of videotapes have shown police officers killing people who…

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Personnel note: Gainesville Sun reporter Jeff Schweers joins Tampa Tribune’s Tallahassee bureau

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Award-winning Gainesville Sun education reporter Jeff Schweers is leaving Florida Gator Country to become Tallahassee Bureau reporter for the Tampa Tribune. Schweers, who has been with the Sun since April 2013, will be reporting primarily on higher education from the perspective of the Florida legislature, focusing on public colleges and universities. In 2014, he was recognized as a finalist in the Sunshine State Awards Competition for Environmental/Health/Science beat reporting. During his tenure at the Sun, Schweers reported on a number…

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Mitch Perry Report for 11.20.15 — Buckhorn stormwater tax plan gets killed. Now what?

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The Tampa City Council rejected a proposal from Mayor Bob Buckhorn‘s administration that would have made a serious dent in alleviating the city’s epic problems with stormwater runoff yesterday. The plan wasn’t cheap — $251 million, and it certainly left open a lot of questions about how fair it was for everyone to pay the same in the city. It wasn’t an easy vote by any means, but I’d feel a lot better about the leadership of this city if…

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Bob Buckhorn once again all in in selling the ACA to the uninsured in Tampa

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Sign-ups for the Affordable Care Act began last week, and once again Bob Buckhorn is all in in getting people to sign up for health insurance. The Tampa Mayor participated in a conference call on Monday afternoon to discuss the  “Healthy Communities Challenge,” a White House-led effort that attempts to engage communities with large number of uninsured people to get them to sign up for the ACA, a/k/a “Obamacare.” “It makes a difference, in a very, very tangible way,” Buckhorn…

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