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Florida Rep. Jamie Grant says there isn’t a wage gap between men and women

Four Tampa Bay area members of the Florida Legislature answered questions Friday afternoon from the Tampa Tiger Bay Club about things like teachers with guns, toll roads through rural Florida and limiting the rights of...

Andrew Gillum slams Florida Legislature for restricting voting rights

The 2018 Democratic nominee for Florida Governor, Andrew Gillum, was on the University of South Florida campus in Tampa Thursday to announce a partnership to register tens of thousands of Floridians before the 2020 election....
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Scientists tell Tampa Bay leaders to prepare for up to 8.5 feet of sea-level rise

Seas are rising all over the world and the rate of sea-level rise keeps increasing as well; a new report says the low-lying coastal Tampa Bay area should expect at least two feet, but as...

Tuesday rally in St. Pete to ask Florida governor to veto rural toll roads bill

The Florida Legislature passed a bill that would study the possibility of toll roads through three parts of rural Florida. But environmental groups like the Sierra Club want Governor Ron DeSantis to veto the bill....
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Hillsborough will study “Boulevard Tampa” & vote on ferry to MacDill AFB

There’s a growing movement among transportation advocates in Tampa to remove I-275 between the I-4 interchange and the I-75 junction and put an at-grade road in its place to re-connect neighborhoods like Seminole Heights and...

Progressives: independent body should draw new district lines in Sarasota

Now that the Sarasota County Commission is made up of single-member districts, commissioners are considering re-drawing the district lines to create districts with more equal populations. But a progressive group wants an independent group to...
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Pasco peace activists hold vigil to remember the Palestinian Nakba

Every year on May 15, Palestinians remember what they call the Nakba, often translated as the ‘catastrophe.’ It marks the period in 1948 when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were expelled from their...
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Custodians rally against privatization at Hillsborough School Board

On Tuesday afternoon custodians from Hillsborough County Schools rallied outside the school district’s building in downtown Tampa. They were there during the School Board meeting because they’re upset about a proposal to let private companies...
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Private company helped DHS spy on “family separation” demonstrators

In the summer of 2018 there was a widespread protest movement of people upset at the Trump administration’s “family separation” policy of separating migrant kids from their parents at the border. According to a report...
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Environmentalist gives Florida governor an “F” on conservation lands promise

During his campaign for governor and after he was elected, Ron DeSantis promised Floridians he would be a champion for conservation lands. His website says he “will work with Florida’s legislative leadership to ensure proper...
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Labor activists will rally to oppose privatization of custodial work in Hillsborough Schools

The Hillsborough County Public School Board is studying the idea of turning over work that’s now done by unionized custodians to a private company instead. But activists who want to stop the privatization before the...
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Jane Castor takes oath of office as new Tampa Mayor

Tampa’s new mayor, Jane Castor, took the oath of office Wednesday morning. About 900 people were packed into the main room at Armature Works. Others spilled into an overflow room to hear Castor’s speech in...

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