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The Year of the Woman
The new head of the Fed is the latest encouraging sign that women are taking charge.
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Battle intensifies over plan to raise minimum wage in Florida
There’s plenty of talk about $10.10 an hour, but not everyone’s on board.
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Beer brewers and distributors at odds over growler legislation
Craft beer is booming, but will the political machinations of industry heavyweights flatten the market?
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Rick Kriseman’s hiring boom
St. Pete’s newly inaugurated mayor is building a super-sized staff.
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5 stories that shook up Florida
Looking back at a year of social change and shocking revelations.
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3 Christmas limericks
It’s not the gifts, it’s the clues that count.
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Rare specimens could bring tourist dollars
How flora and fauna could spark the St. Pete economy.
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The curious case of Bishop Chuck Leigh
Are police targeting a clergyman who ministers to Tampa’s poor?
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Government Shutdown Digest
Reports from our sister alt-weeklies — and from the University of Tampa.
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Politicians play hunger games with the poor
A Tampa-based food bank feeds hundreds of thousands while D.C. debates drastic cuts in food stamps.
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Florida Dems search for a gubernatorial candidate
The speculation runs rampant as Democrats ponder who will run against Rick Scott.
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Winds of change blowing around Cuba
With U.S./Cuba relations in flux, Tampa politicians are making history.
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Constant reader
My two-plus decades with the Loaf.
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Lest alt acquaintance be forgot
Watching alt-weeklies thrive, and shrink, and endure.
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Voting blocks
Hillsborough Commissioner Les Miller’s redistricting plan could result in the county’s first Latino representative, but is it fair?
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Fingers on the parent trigger
The surprising facts about who’s for and against the controversial parent trigger law.