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Here we go again. On Tuesday, Stuart Sternberg, the principal shareholder of the Tampa Bay Rays’ ownership group, revamped his effort to get the Rays out of Tropicana Field and into a new stadium. Speaking in front of the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners, Sternberg and a group of Rays’ executives presented their case
St. Petersburg Mayor Bill Foster talked about the trials of working with city council and the difficulty of municipal level government to a group of students as guest of Leader Speak Oct. 27 in Davis Hall. “We have to interface with everybody above us because we are the lowest of the low on the totem
Gov. Rick Scott announced on Oct. 20 that biotech company IRX Therapeutics, Inc., would be moving from New York to St. Petersburg. He made the announcement in the USFSP Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. The relocation will bring 40 jobs to the area immediately, and 280 jobs in the next five years, with an average salary
One quarter. Twenty-five cents. In 1806, hungry restaurant-goers could trade one for a full meal of meat and a pint of cold beer or cider. The same amount could buy a 12 oz box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes in 1966. As soon ago as the ’80s, children meekly handed 25 cents to cashiers to pay
Slow down your roll stop because St. Petersburg is installing red light cameras around the city. Warning notices start September 15 and will last for 30 days. Citations will be issued after October 15. “The intent of this program is to enhance safety for our residents,” Mayor Bill Foster told Creative Loafing this week They
Mayor Bill Foster answered questions about his philosophy of governance, city services and the Rays while highlighting his discomfort with the press to a group of mostly journalism students in the CAC on September 1. The core of his governing strategy is the broken window philosophy, Foster said. The “broken window” is “sweating the small