Goliath. It is a david and goliath battle that identify been fortunate enough now to be out on the other side and talk a little bit about. That was the reality i stepped into on december 9 2008, when at 6 21 in the morning the doorbell would not stop ringing where i was staying. I was fund raising for my brother. Id committed to doing it at least for four months. The doorbell continued to ring. I thought it was just someone playing pranks. Got dressed very quickly, went downstairs and saw two men flashing fbi badges and subpoenas requesting entrance many to friends of blagojevich. You can imagine that was a shocking occurrence for me, and it forever changed my life and took me in a direction i never expected. Later that morning the thenu. S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald in a press Conference Announcing that my brother had been arrested said that lincoln would roll over in his grave if he knew that rod was attempting to sell Barack Obamas senate seat to highest bidder. As i was listening
Last week, the Florida Legislature passed some very politically-motivated labor legislation that looks a lot like union-busting. They made it harder and more cumbersome for public employees to join their union and pay their dues. Our guests said this seems like a direct attack on the Democratic Party-supporting teachers’ unions because the legislature exempted Republican-supporting cops, firefighters, and corrections officers’ unions from the same restrictions on their membership. Learn more about it all with Cheryl Schroeder, Executive Director of the West Central Florida Labor Council, and employment attorney Ryan Barack of Kwall, Barack & Nadeau.
St. Petersburg candidates: Next mayor should decide on Trop redevelopment
Wengay Newton, Darden Rice and Ken Welch each expressed skepticism about heavy public spending for a new stadium.
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An aerial view of Tropicana Field and the surrounding area looking east towards downtown, on Wednesday, March 31, 2021 in St. Petersburg. [ DIRK SHADD | Times ]
By William March
Updated 4 hours ago
The three most prominent current candidates for mayor of St. Petersburg â Wengay Newton, Darden Rice and Ken Welch â said this week that the next mayor, not current Mayor Rick Kriseman, should make the final decision on a plan to redevelop Tropicana Field.
Kriseman has narrowed the field of developers who made proposals for the redevelopment project to four and, clashing with the City Council, hired a consultant without their approval to evaluate the proposals.