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Fifth annual list of Tampa Bay’s 25 Most Powerful Politicians

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Now in its fifth year, SaintPetersBlog/FloridaPolitics.com is offering its annual list of the Most Powerful Politicians in Tampa Bay. In compiling the 2017 list, FloridaPolitics.com queried several of the region’s leading political consultants, activists, bloggers, operatives and local lobbyists to name who they consider the 25 most powerful pols in the area. No suggested names were provided. For this exercise, the Tampa Bay region is defined as Pinellas, Hillsborough and Pasco, but can also include Hernando, Polk or Sarasota, particularly…

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#25 on list of Tampa Bay’s Most Powerful Politicians — Yolie Capin

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The South Tampa representative is another member of the Tampa City Council who is keeping her options open as she contemplates life after March of 2019, when she is term-limited out of office. Yolie Capin has been a key leader in the reengagement between Tampa Bay and Cuba, and has also led initiatives in the arts, community development and others. “Yolie is a dynamic and strategic leader who is pushing our community into the future,” says Tucker/Hall executive Bill Carlson.…

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Angry neighbors force Hillsborough County to test air quality after spraying controversial pesticide

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Officials with the Hillsborough County Environmental Protection Commission say they will test air quality at Babe Zaharias Golf Course in Tampa next week, a day after the Tampa Sports Authority applies the controversial fumigant Curfew. Curfew is a restricted pesticide that the TSA intends to use to control nematodes (ground worms) at Babe Zaharias. The State of Florida approved the use of Curfew back in 1999, with the proviso that there be a 100-foot setback from any occupied structure, said Jerry…

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Rick Kriseman, Cross-Bay Ferry get mixed reviews from Tampa City Council

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A year ago, St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman requested and received $350,000 from the local governments of Tampa, Hillsborough County, Pinellas County and his own City Council to help fund the Cross-Bay Ferry public-private pilot project that ends Sunday. While those local governments won’t get close to that money back — they were never expected to — but final totals could end up bringing as much as $30,000 back to those local governments. Speaking before the Tampa City Council today…

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Yolie Capin elected chair of Tampa City Council

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If you blinked you would have missed it. Unlike a year ago, when it took 14 ballots and over a half an hour to select a chair, Yolie Capin was elected the next chair of the Tampa City Council on the first ballot Thursday morning. The voting began with Councilman Harry Cohen, who some speculated was himself interested in becoming chair, nominating Capin. Luis Viera, the newest member of the Council and a longtime friend of current Council Chair Mike…

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Tampa City Council members went to National League of Cities meeting last week. It didn’t go well

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Last week, a group of Tampa City Council members flew to Washington for the National League of Cities’ annual Congressional City Conference, the first held in the Donald Trump administration. It was not very encouraging, at least for the three Democrats. “The consensus of the participants was fear, primarily of the unknown,” said Council Chair Mike Suarez. The meetings took place concurrently to the unveiling of Trump’s proposed federal budget, which eliminates funding for the HOME Investment Partnership Program, which provides…

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Tampa City Councilmembers ponder their own political future — now that Bob Buckhorn has decided his

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Tampa City Council Chair Mike Suarez says Bob Buckhorn‘s decision to opt out of a statewide run in 2018 should mean a lot less drama associated with the election for council chair next month, a development he says “is a good thing.” There was plenty of such drama surrounding the election of a council in 2015 and 2016, due to the uncertainty around Buckhorn’s political ambitions. But his announcement that he will forgo a run for governor and instead fulfill the last two years as…

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