1+ hour, 11+ min ago   (1170+ words) Badly outraised, Anthony Nieves ran his House District 47 campaign the old-fashioned way: connecting with voters by knocking on their doors. “There isn’t a street, there isn’t a road, there isn’t a subdivision that we have not canvassed,” Nieves said after…...

4+ hour, 14+ min ago   (339+ words) Pasco County Tax Collector Mike Fasano is opening up his offices to help advance a charitable cause. Fasano is encouraging Pasco County residents to stop by his agency’s five Tax Collector offices to make contributions to the Two Good Soles…...

7+ hour, 30+ min ago   (327+ words) Pensacola is getting a sizeable economic boost to the shipbuilding industry in that Gulf Coast city. Gov. Ron DeSantis this month approved $9 million to provide infrastructure improvements in order to expand the shipbuilding trade at the Port of Pensacola. DeSantis…...

10+ hour, 27+ min ago   (1468+ words) The Tampa Bay Rays’ proposed new home in Hillsborough County is no longer being negotiated through broad strokes. Hundreds of pages of definitive agreements released Friday put legal terms behind the roughly $2.36 billion ballpark project, cutting the direct local public…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (228+ words) Floridians weighing the pros and cons of November’s property tax ballot item will be able to rely on Florida TaxWatch’s new website for one informed perspective. The Florida Property Tax Resource Center offers what the group calls “independent, data-driven research…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1149+ words) In 1998, my University of Florida curriculum required an internship to graduate. I packed my bags for Atlanta and joined Creative Event Marketing as an event-planning intern. By my fourth week, I was on my first professional road assignment. That was…...

2+ day, 6+ min ago   (1011+ words) After months of negotiations, revisions and uncertainty, the Tampa Bay Rays’ proposed Tampa stadium deal is finally on paper — with the financing, obligations and political risks laid bare ahead of next week’s votes. The long-awaited definitive agreements provide the clearest…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (517+ words) Nancy Bostock has narrowly defeated Amanda Lord for a seat on the Pinellas County School Board, results that come nearly three full days after Election Day. Bostock continued with a promist to continue earning voters’ trust, adding that she looks…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1641+ words) Most obviously, voters rejected the ambitions of two Florida lawmakers who won in the last two election cycles. The most closely watched upset of an incumbent came in Florida’s 7th Congressional District, where Republicans chose Ryan Elijah, a former FOX 35 news…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (240+ words) Secretary of State Cord Byrd says the Republican Primary in Florida’s 11th Congressional District will go to a machine recount. With all votes tabulated, business owner Joe Strada held a lead over former Lake County Property Appraiser Carey Baker of 393 votes…...