Mitt Romney is appearing in St. Petersburg this morning for a campaign appearance, and will travel across the Bay into the exclusive Avila area early this afternoon in Tampa for a fundraiser.
Protesters are expected to appear at both locations, but will those groups be able to muster up more numbers than the approximately two dozen folks who protested Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan Chase's annual shareholder meeting in Tampa yesterday morning? Coming less than a week after the revelation that the bank had suffered more than $2 billion in trading losses, the lack of more public dissent took some by surprise.
The momentum to save the Friendship Trail Bridge took a slight blow yesterday when staff members inside Pinellas County's government told Commissioners that they don't recommend the commission sign off on the ambitious new plan announced last week. But the authors of that plan say the two parties need to speak to clarify if there truly are problems there.
A big new poll released yesterday jointly by CBS News and the New York Times gives us a bit more information on how President Obama's bombshell announcement supporting same-sex marriage is playing in the country.
And while Mitt Romney roams the Tampa Bay area, his friends such as Karl Rove are spending some of the hundreds of millions they've said they would raise this year on his behalf on a new television ad here in Florida blasting the president's record.
This article appears in May 10-16, 2012.