Rick Kriseman fingers Tampa firm to manage Pier District
Colliers International, a Clearwater-based real estate management firm, will serve as the operator for the new St. Pete Pier district. According to the Tampa Bay Times, Mayor Rick Kriseman announced...
View ArticleMelanie Bevan serves final day at St. Pete PD; heading to Bradenton to serve...
Friday was Assistant Chief Melanie Bevan’s final day with the St. Pete Police Department. Bevan announced last month she accepted the top spot with Bradenton Police as their chief. “Today will be my...
View ArticleWith GOP backing, Mike Mikurak continues to grow funding gap in Pinellas...
Mike Mikurak has outraised his opponent Charlie Justice more than three to one in his race to unseat the current Commission chair. Mikurak has raised more than $73,000 compared to Justice’s $24,000. In...
View ArticlePinellas County MPO backs St. Pete bike share
The Pinellas County Metropolitan Planning Organization is backing St. Pete’s initiative to implement a bike share program in and around downtown. But they’re doing so with some caveats. In an update...
View ArticlePie in the sky transit proposal: Gondolas in St. Pete
St. Pete wants to move its people around St. Pete over the roads. Earlier this month the city submitted an application for a $40 million federal grant with its big-ticket item focused on Aerial Cable...
View ArticleNew group aims to restore Williams Park to its historic vibrance
Buses in Williams Park are gone. Sunday was the first day buses stopped at a variety of places in downtown St. Pete instead of all picking up and dropping off passengers at Williams Park. With the old...
View ArticleNonpartisan Gulfport City Council race goes partisan
Gulfport municipal elections are supposed to be nonpartisan, but party politics have come out in the city’s lone City Council contest. Though voters will never see it on a ballot, incumbent Dan Liedtke...
View ArticleEd Smith leaves Florida House race for school board
Polk County Commissioner Ed Smith, a Lake Alfred Republican, has pulled out of the Republican Primary for Florida House District 41, and has entered the nonpartisan race for Polk County School Board...
View ArticleFor all the shouting over access to alley recycling, an awful lot of folks...
Universal curbside recycling became universal ‘recycle where you put your trash’ last month, but not everyone has caught on. I was recently taking a stroll through Historic Kenwood and stumbled on a...
View ArticleB2 Communications expands with three new hires
A St. Pete based public relations firm is expanding its operations in the area. B2 Communications recently hired Diane Jones, a 20-year PR veteran in the Tampa Bay area. Jones most recently ran her own...
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