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The amphitheater is pictured on the left in this rendering of the $84 million Imagine Clearwater waterfront renovation. The park is under construction with a completion target of July 2023.
Clearwater favors Ruth Eckerd Hall to manage its waterfront amphitheater
A council majority goes against city staff, who pushed to hire a group that included Vinik Sports.
A bear market may be on the horizon. Here’s what that means
Pedestrians walk by the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday in New York. The stock market’s skid this year has pulled the S&P 500 close to what’s known as a bear market. Rising interest rates, high inflation, the war in Ukraine and a slowdown in China’s economy have caused investors to reconsider the prices they’re willing to pay for a wide range of stocks, from high-flying tech companies to traditional automakers.
A bear market is a term used by Wall Street when a market index has fallen 20% or more from a recent high.
Spirit tells shareholders to reject hostile bid from JetBlue
A line of Spirit Airlines jets sit on the tarmac at the Orlando International Airport on May 20, 2020, in Orlando, Fla. Spirit Airlines' board is telling its shareholders to reject JetBlue's offer, saying it's not in the best interests of the company or its stockholders. Spirit said Thursday, May 19, 2022, that its board found that a potential deal with JetBlue faces substantial regulatory hurdles, especially while the Northeast Alliance with American Airlines remains in effect.
Any attempt to merge with the New York carrier would face substantial regulatory hurdles, largely because of JetBlue’s alliance with American Airlines.
More startups push into Tampa Bay’s competitive housing market
A for sale sign is seen in front of a home along 6th Avenue North in the Kenwood area Friday, Feb. 21, 2020 of St. Petersburg.
Pay cash, buy back later programs for homes are pushing to compete against investors.

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  1. Dubai developer to buy Florida condo collapse site for $120M
    Yesterday• Florida
    Ronit Naibryf, right, shows Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levina Cava, the name of her son Ilan Naibryf, earlier this month in Surfside.
  2. Florida lawmakers to target roof claims, lawyers during property insurance session
    Yesterday• Politics
    The Florida House of Representatives pictured on Thursday, March 10, 2022, in Tallahassee. Florida lawmakers are returning to the Capitol next week for a special legislative session aimed at addressing problems in the state’s turbulent property insurance market.
  3. As cost of condo insurance soars, Florida legislators remain silent
    May 20• Politics
    The partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building is pictured June 28, 2021, in Surfside.
  5. Shopping for space, health systems make over shopping malls
    May 20• Health
    Hickory Hollow Mall was once the largest shopping center in Tennessee. Now Vanderbilt University Medical Center plans to lease the space and use it for medical clinics.
  6. Clearwater favors Ruth Eckerd Hall to manage its waterfront amphitheater
    May 20• Clearwater
    The amphitheater is pictured on the left in this rendering of the $84 million Imagine Clearwater waterfront renovation. The park is under construction with a completion target of July 2023.
  7. Legoland theme park gets a new a playmate: Peppa Pig
    May 20• Theme Parks
    The Legoland theme park in Winter Haven has added some new elements this year.
  8. Senate OKs overhaul of baby formula rules in aid program
    May 20• Health
    Katherine Gibson-Haynes helps distribute infant formula during a baby formula drive May 14 in Houston. Parents seeking baby formula are running into bare supermarket and pharmacy shelves in part because of ongoing supply disruptions and a recent safety recall.
  9. Spirit tells shareholders to reject hostile bid from JetBlue
    May 20• Business
    A line of Spirit Airlines jets sit on the tarmac at the Orlando International Airport on May 20, 2020, in Orlando, Fla. Spirit Airlines' board is telling its shareholders to reject JetBlue's offer, saying it's not in the best interests of the company or its stockholders. Spirit said Thursday, May 19, 2022, that its board found that a potential deal with JetBlue faces substantial regulatory hurdles, especially while the Northeast Alliance with American Airlines remains in effect.
  10. SeaWorld swims to the surface with new coaster Ice Breaker this summer
    May 20• Theme Parks
    SeaWorld’s first launch-style coaster, Ice Breaker, opened in February. It has both backward and forward launches to flip riders’ stomachs with what it says is the “steepest beyond vertical drop” in Florida.
  11. Dear Penny: Can my son fight my decision to disinherit him?
    May 20• Business
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  12. All Children’s Hospital honored for surgery years after heart institute problems
    May 20• Health
    Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg has been designated as a level 1 children's surgery center by the American College of Surgeons. The distinction is shared by fewer than 50 hospitals across the country, none in Tampa Bay.
  13. A bear market may be on the horizon. Here’s what that means
    May 19• Business
    Pedestrians walk by the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday in New York. The stock market’s skid this year has pulled the S&P 500 close to what’s known as a bear market. Rising interest rates, high inflation, the war in Ukraine and a slowdown in China’s economy have caused investors to reconsider the prices they’re willing to pay for a wide range of stocks, from high-flying tech companies to traditional automakers.
  14. FDA head: Baby formula factory could reopen by next week
    May 19• Health
    FILE - Infant formula is stacked on a table during a baby formula drive to help with the shortage May 14, 2022, in Houston. President Joe Biden has invoked the Defense Production Act to speed production of infant formula and has authorized flights to import supply from overseas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
  15. St. Petersburg pastors endorse Sugar Hill to redevelop Tropicana Field
    May 19• St. Petersburg
    Former mayor of Sacramento and former NBA player Kevin Johnson, speaks at the podium, during a press conference Thursday, May 19, 2022 in St. Petersburg by local Black pastors announcing their official endorsement of Sugar Hill Community Partners developers as their choice for the redevelopment of the Tropicana Field site. A group of pastors were flown out to Sacramento by Sugar Hill to see their developments.
  16. What Tampa Bay attractions, zoos and museums have in store this summer
    May 19• Theme Parks
    Eleanor Walker, 4, left, and Edie Walker, 5, visit with Hope at her home in July 2020 inside the Kate Tidemann & Ellen Cotton Main Pool and Window of Wonder at the Ruth and J.O. Stone Dolphin Complex. The Clearwater Marine Aquarium opened an $80 million expansion thanks to fundraising and attendance that surged in the last 10 years because of Winter the dolphin. Winter died in November.
  17. Crypto firm CoinFlip opening Tampa ‘experience center’ at Sparkman Wharf
    May 19• Business
    CoinFlip, a Chicago cryptocurrency exchange company, is opening a, 8,000-square-foot office and "crypto experience center" at Tampa's Sparkman Wharf this summer, the company announced Thursday.
  18. Providing baby formula for babies held at the border is a legal requirement
    May 19• Nation & World
    Infant formula is stacked on a table during a baby formula drive to help with the shortage Saturday, May 14, 2022, in Houston.
  19. When it comes to cars, how fast can Florida really go electric?
    May 19• Business
    Nick and Linda Howe
  20. More startups push into Tampa Bay’s competitive housing market
    May 19• Real Estate
    A for sale sign is seen in front of a home along 6th Avenue North in the Kenwood area Friday, Feb. 21, 2020 of St. Petersburg.
  21. Pinellas beaches man created fake Trump pardon to try to escape charges, feds say
    May 18• Crime
    Alexander Leszczynski of North Redington Beach is facing charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering.
  22. Powell: Fed to keep hiking rates until it controls inflation
    May 18• Business
    Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference at the Federal Reserve, Wednesday, May 4, 2022 in Washington. The Federal Reserve intensified its drive to curb the worst inflation in 40 years by raising its benchmark short-term interest rate by an sizable half-percentage point.
  23. Pinellas County Construction Licensing Board employee faces corruption charges
    May 18• Breaking News
    Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri announces the arrest of Andrea Wagner, 39, an investigator for the Pinellas County Construction Licensing Board.
  24. Manatee County’s Feld Entertainment to bring back Ringling circus in a new way
    May 18• Entertainment
    The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus will be reimagined.
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