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The Fight for $15 campaign hosted a rally outside of St. Petersburg City Hall, calling for a hike in the minimum wage. Progressives in Florida point to the statewide success of policies like raising the minimum wage as evidence voters can embrace progressive ideas. [Times file photo]
Florida progressives have growing power, but where are their candidates?
A former Republican, an ex-corporate lobbyist and a former cop are leading for Democrats in 2022 as they try to win the governor’s mansion and a U.S. Senate seat.
Two groups vie to replace disgraced domestic violence coalition in Florida
FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2004, file photo, Tiffany Carr, then executive director of Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence, left, speaks at a news conference held by Gov. Jeb Bush, background right. The coalition shut down after officials learned that Carr received $7.5 million in compensation during her final three years leading the agency that was, by law, the only entity that could funnel state money to domestic abuse shelters around Florida. (AP Photo/Phil Coale, File)
Two candidates are in the running to replace the disgraced Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence, which was shut down following revelations that its head had been paid $7.5 million over three...
Florida Republicans investigated chairman for harassment; accusation was unsubstantiated
Sen. Joe Gruters proposes a reciprocity agreement with other states that would grant in-state university tuition to students with grandparents who reside there, during debate on March 23, 2020.
“No accuser with firsthand knowledge was willing to come forward,” the party told its members regarding the investigation into Joe Gruters.
DeSantis fires up crowd of young conservatives in Tampa
Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks about his weekend trip to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Governor discusses his most recent trip to the Texas border during the Student Action Summit Sunday.
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  1. Could college athletes profit from adult entertainment?
    4 hours ago• Politics
    Tampa Bay has the fourth-highest number of adult entertainment options per capita in the country, a Monday WalletHub study said. | [Times file photo]
  2. Coronavirus is surging in Florida. Is the state doing enough to fight vaccine hesitancy?
    Earlier today• Politics
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis removes his face mask on April 8, 2020, as he prepares to talk to the media about COVID-19 in Florida at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
  3. Tampa Bay teachers seek protections from ‘critical race theory’ accusations
    Earlier today• Education
    Activist Ben Frazier, left, is asks to leave after shouting chants of "Allow teachers to teach the truth" during a June 10 State Board of Education meeting, where members banned critical race theory from Florida schools.
  5. No more anonymous code complaints about neighbors, state law says
    Earlier today• Politics
    Overgrown grass at a property in Dunedin in 2018. [City of Dunedin]
  6. Disney may get $570M in tax breaks for new Florida campus: report
    Yesterday• Business
    Disney is set to receive more than a half-billion dollars in tax breaks for a new corporate center.
  7. Florida is keeping a close watch on the FDA these days. Here’s why.
    Yesterday• Politics
    Maker Biogen was hopeful its drug aducanumab would be the first ever approved to treat the cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's-- a major medical milestone.
  8. DeSantis looks to ban mask mandates if schools, feds require them
    Yesterday• Politics
    Ron DeSantis issued an order Friday, April 2, 2021 prohibiting Florida businesses from requiring customers show proof that they have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
  9. Group run by Sidney Powell, who fought Biden’s election, gets Florida approval
    Yesterday• Politics
    Sidney Powell, speaking here at a December rally in Georgia, runs a group accused of prematurely seeking donations in Florida.
  10. Florida Republicans slam President Joe Biden on Cuba during GOP town hall in Miami-Dade
    Yesterday• Politics
    Cuba protestors show their passion for change in their homeland as they march around downtown Orlando and Lake Eola in Orlando, Florida, Saturday, July 17, 2021.
  11. New group with secretive funding challenges FPL’s 4-year, $2 billion rate increase
    Yesterday• Politics
    An Arcadia man watches from the porch as a Florida Power & Light Co. crew works to repair a power line in the wake of Hurricane Irma on Monday. 
[Photo by Brian Blanco/Getty Images]
  12. Tampa Bay Times assembles its first Community Reader Panel
    Yesterday• News
    The Tampa Bay Times Community Reader Panel has been formed. It is made up of 50 people from around the bay who will meet quarterly with journalists.
  13. In St. Petersburg mayor’s race, an unexpected name comes up: Trump
    Yesterday• Elections
    St. Petersburg mayoral candidates Darden Rice, left, and Ken Welch are at odds over support each has received from area Republicans. Both are Democrats, but the mayor's race is a non-partisan affair.
  14. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody contracts COVID-19; had gotten vaccine
    Yesterday• Politics
    In this photo taken Saturday, July 17, in an airport hangar in Del Rio, Texas, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is near the center of the group to the left of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott while Gov. Ron DeSantis is on the other side of Abbott. Moody announced on Wednesday, July 21, that she had tested positive for COVID-19.
  15. ‘Right to pray’ ballot initiative proposed in Florida
    Yesterday• Politics
    Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne preaches during a service at his church, the River at Tampa Bay, on March 29, 2020. That was two days after Hillsborough County officials approved a stay-at-home order to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
  16. On Tampa City Council, a debate over Cuba support still simmers
    Yesterday• Tampa
    Tampa City Council member Bill Carlson said his stance on the Cuba protests has been misunderstood.
  17. Scientology ties prompt some to back away from Tampa human rights summit
    Yesterday• Hillsborough
    This stretch of N Fort Harrison Avenue in downtown Clearwater is home to several groups affiliated with the Church of Scientology. They include the offices of United for Human Rights, located in the two-story building at right.
  18. Ballots soon to reach mailboxes for St. Petersburg primary
    Yesterday• Elections
    A voter drops off a mail ballot for early voting at the Pinellas County Election Services County Building on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 in St. Petersburg.
  19. Tampa residents once had a direct role in multiple Cuban revolutions
    Jul. 21• History
    Fidel Castro, with an unidentified onlooker, addresses a group in Ybor City during a visit to Tampa in November 1955 to solicit support and cash for his planned overthrow of the Cuban government.
  20. Florida Republicans investigated chairman for harassment; accusation was unsubstantiated
    Jul. 20• Politics
    Sen. Joe Gruters proposes a reciprocity agreement with other states that would grant in-state university tuition to students with grandparents who reside there, during debate on March 23, 2020.
  21. Florida medical marijuana deal has some questioning ‘5 percent’ rule
    Jul. 20• Politics
    Aug. 2019 file photo of legal cannabis for sale. In the frame, a vendor points out the variety of marijuana for sale at the grand opening of the Northwest Cannabis Market in Seattle.
  22. Ingoglia, former Florida GOP chair, tees up Senate campaign
    Jul. 20• Politics
    Florida Rep. Blaise Ingoglia debates an amendment during a legislative session, Tuesday, April 27, 2021, at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
  23. Get answers to child tax credit questions this weekend at Tampa sessions
    Jul. 20• Kids & Family
    President Joe Biden speaks during an event on the American Jobs Plan in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus in Washington. It includes soft infrastructure items like investments in child care, family tax credits and other domestic programs.
  24. Amanda Makki jumps into Florida District 13 House race
    Jul. 20• Politics
    Amanda Makki stands at the podium during an event at Largo Central Park, to announce her run for Congress, Tuesday, July 20, 2021 in Largo.
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