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Florida has an Asian swamp eel problem
They can breathe air, survive in low-oxygen conditions, and persist through wet and dry seasons by burrowing into mud.
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Florida gas prices spike another 24 cents as war in Iran continues
For electric vehicles, the cost per kilowatt-hour at Florida charging stations rounded to 41 cents this past week.
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Live Nation wants to build a new 4,300-capacity music venue in Ybor City
Crowbar owner Tom DeGeorge referred to the announcement of the new Live Nation venue as ‘the ultimate slap in the face.’
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Creative Loafing Tampa Bay readers respond to Bondi getting fired, ‘Hunky Jesus’ party, and more
‘Well i guess the new owners of cl are same as the old owners. No hope for it being a decent rag anymore.’
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Entrepreneur Gary Hartfield enters race to be Tampa’s next mayor
Hartfield says his campaign will focus on improving infrastructure and affordability.
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He was rizzin’: Photos from the ‘Hunky Jesus & Foxy Mary’ contest at St. Pete’s Wet Spot pool bar
Talk about a res-erection.
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DeSantis signs Florida bill allowing state to label groups as ‘domestic terrorist organizations’
The measure also outlines rules for expelling students at state universities who “promote” support for such groups.
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Hulk Hogan’s second Tampa Bay home hits the market for $4.5 million
The home sits directly next door to the Hulkster’s main house, and was mostly used as a guest house.
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New Port Richey mayoral candidate Marlowe Jones wants to lead the city that arrested him
The 36-year-old said fights over policing, trash, development, and city hall secrecy pushed him into the mayor’s race.
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Florida AG says state can now fund religious charter schools, and ‘encourage’ Christianity
The U.S. Supreme Court last year effectively upheld an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision rejecting a push to create a Catholic charter school.
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Environmental groups sue after Trump administration opens up oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
The move puts the Endangered Species Act ‘in a shredder’ says an environmental attorney.
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Florida Republicans line up to praise fired Attorney General Pam Bondi
Democrats were less impressed.
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Trump fires Pam Bondi as Attorney General
The Tampa woman will still have to answer to the House Oversight Committee about the Epstein files.
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Tampa has $6 million to spend on tree canopy mitigation, advocates and officials disagree on how the money should be used
The canopy has been diminished by overdevelopment and back-to-back hurricanes in 2024.
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Sydney Gruters, wife of RNC Chair and state Sen. Joe Gruters, says she’s running for Florida congressional seat
Florida’s CD 16 seat that will be vacated by Republican Vern Buchanan later this year.
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DeSantis says birthright citizenship ‘kind of cheapens the process when you make it a tourist thing’
The Florida governor’s comments come as SCOTUS weighs whether to greenlight Trump’s citizenship ban for certain U.S.-born babies.
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Voting rights groups sue after DeSantis signs bill requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote
HB 991 will take effect Jan. 1, 2027.
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Meet three candidates running to unseat St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch
Welch and his opponents claim St. Pete’s infrastructure is top-priority after the 2024 storms.
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In pitch to become mayor, former fire chief Jim Large says St. Pete’s infrastructure has to catch up with the growth
Large told CL he would also immediately revamp the permitting process and make changes to storm prevention and recovery plans.