Mitch Perry Report 3.6.12- Super Tuesday edition

Well, it's the biggest day of the GOP political calendar this year, right?

If big is the number of states and delegates, then yes it is. But big is not always better, and as we report in our preview of tonight's nationwide primary, this show is getting worse with age, not better.

I have to admit that until last night I didn't know there was one county in Florida that has an ordinance designed to stop wage-theft. But that's one too many for the Florida Retail Federation and their friends in the business community in Florida, who are working on passing a bill this week that would not only eliminate Miami-Dade County's law, but prevent any other county from implementing their own.

Another Tampa Bay Times reporter is leaving the paper. This time it's Emily Nipps, who is departing to take a job working as a public relations spokesperson for Bayfront Medical Center.

And we spent a few hours at HART's meeting in Tampa yesterday, in which most of the news was pretty bleak regarding the financial outlook for the Hillsborough County transit agency.

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