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Grimes, the city attorney, said one of Mayor Castor’s changes would be to have a recently hired attorney for the city work as the new CRB attorney.
Councilman Luis Viera proposed that the city hire an independent attorney to work approximately 10 hours a month as the CRB attorney, calling it a “common sense approach.” However, his proposal lost on a 5-2 vote.
The board did vote to give themselves the power to select the majority of the members of the CRB (Seven – one for each member of the council) and to give the mayor the power to appoint four members. However, after the vote, Grimes said that change could only come from Mayor Castor (during the meeting activists mentioned how city councils or county commissions in other Florida communities that have citizen review boards choose the majority of their members).
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Soul Circus Cowboys, a southern rock band led by Brandon native Billy McKnight, are scheduled to release a single in the coming months that they believe could work as a song promoting the Sunshine State to the rest of the country.
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Soul Circus Cowboys want new single to be used to promote Florida tourism
Band leader Billy McKnight is from Brandon and lives on Harbor Island
Visit Florida has not commented
It’s in fact called “Sunshine State” and will be available in the coming months on iTunes, Spotify and CD.
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When the Obama administrationâs announced it would reestablish diplomatic relations with Cuba in 2014, there was genuine excitement in the Tampa Bay area, home to the third largest population of Cuban-Americans in the country.
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Cuban-American leaders expect Biden to lift restrictions on Cuba
There is disagreement over how and when that should happen
Cubaâs support for Venezuelaâs Maduro could be a sticking point
Many of those policies were reversed during the Trump administration, but a new policy paper published this week by the Cuba Study Group is calling for the Joe Biden administration to pursue a multi-pronged approach to get relations between the two countries âon a more constructive track, regain control of the narrative, and incentivize further reforms in Cuba.â