Mayor Rick Kriseman delivered his State of the City Address on January 14, 2017 at The Palladium.
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Public Highlights for the Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and the Sunshine City
January 21 through January 28, 2017
| Saturday, January 21, 8:30 am |
Free Yoga at Sundial, Sundial St. Pete
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| Saturday, January 21, 12:00 pm |
Women's March on Washington - Florida, Demens Landing Park
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| Saturday, January 21, 3:00 pm |
Mayor Kriseman, East West Shrine Game, Tropicana Field
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| Saturday, January 21, 8:00 pm |
I Love St. Pete Art/Music/Fashion art pARTy, Grand Central District
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| Sunday, January 22, 10:00 am |
Tour de SHINE Bike Tours, Saint Petersburg Bicycle Cooperative
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| Sunday, January 22, 3:00 pm |
Jack Hanna's Into the Wild Live! Mahaffey Theater
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| Monday, January 23, 10:00 am |
Tampa Bay Senior Expo, The Coliseum
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| Tuesday, January 24, 6:00 pm |
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| Wednesday, January 25, 10:00 am |
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| Wednesday, January 25, 7:00 pm |
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| Thursday, January 26, 11:00 am |
TFO Coffee Concerts: A Taste of Russia, Mahaffey Theater
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| Friday, January 27, 7:00 pm |
Muse - St. Petersburg Arts Alliance Benefit, Museum of Fine Arts
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| Friday, January 27 - 28 |
Shen Yun, Mahaffey Theater
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| Saturday, January 28, 9:00 am |
National Seed Swap Day, Boyd Hill Nature Preserve
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| Saturday, January 28, 10:00 am |
Community Wellness Day, Enoch Davis Center
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| Saturday, January 28, 12:00 pm |
Colors of the Season, Boyd Hill Nature Preserve
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Saturday, January 14 |
Anne Lindberg, SPB: Rick Kriseman will seek to deregulate the city's taxi cabs
The announcement came toward the end of St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman's state of the city address Saturday: The next ordinance Kriseman plans to introduce is one deregulating the vehicle-for-hire industry.
Kriseman did not provide many details except to say it would include incentives for taxi companies and ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft to comply with St. Petersburg's system.
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Sunday, January 15
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Creative Loafing: With reelection bid up and running, Kriseman gives his state of the city address
St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman's third annual State of the City Address offered a glimpse of his administration's take on 2016's ups and downs. Addressing the crowd gathered at the Palladium, he took on challenging topics like the sewage crisis and the Pier, issues he'll likely have to confront on the campaign trail as he seeks a second term.
After opening remarks from Deputy Mayor Kanika Tomalin and City Council Chair Darden Rice, Kriseman spoke about forward motion on the Pier, an ongoing sewage and infrastructure crisis and the looming effects of President Elect Donald Trump.
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Sunday, January 15 |
Tampa Bay Reporter: Cross-Bay Ferry Ridership Strong in December
Cross-Bay Ferry organizers are reporting strong ridership levels in December, with more than 5,400 tickets sold, up from November's level of 4,700 tickets sold.
The is very positive, ferry supporters said, reflecting continued growth of demand. The details for December:
- Weekend ticket sales totaled 3,734.
- Weekday (Monday - Thursday) sales started slow, as expected, but then doubled in the third, and tripled again during the fourth week, with more than 1,700 weekday tickets sold.
- Since launching in November, the ferry has moved more than 13,000 people.
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Monday, January 16 |
WUSF: Kriseman Touts Vision, Defends Challenges For St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman gave his annual State of the City address over the weekend, addressing challenges including the release of more than 100 million gallons of sewage into Tampa Bay and onto the city's streets this past summer.
He says work already is underway to fix the overburdened sewer system, but improvements may not be done in time for the summer rainy season. Kriseman told the standing-room and mostly supportive crowd at the downtown Coliseum that money also will be spent on a long-term plan to fix the city's water infrastructure.
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Monday, January 16 |
Tampa Bay Times: In St. Petersburg, celebration and concern march together at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. parade
The distant swell of music echoed down Central Avenue on Monday morning, a sign of the fanfare to come. Kids hung from barricades, calling to grinning St. Petersburg police officers: "We want beads!"
Katherine Jones sat in a folding chair with her hands on her lap, waiting for the marching bands. The lifelong St. Petersburg resident, now 90, remembers all of the places she once couldn't go. When she went to work with her mother, they had to walk in the back door to go sweep the front porch. They ate lunch in a closet.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. fought for change.
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Monday, January 16 |
St. Pete Rising: Unscripted Theatre Brings Improv Comedy to Downtown St. Pete
St. Pete's seven arts districts are drenched in over 50 outdoor murals by artists from all over the world. Local artists and makers pack the St. Pete's indie markets on a regular basis to sell their crafts. St. Pete is undeniably a vibrant arts city. But the one art medium that doesn't often shine as bright as the rest in St. Pete is performing arts.
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Tuesday, January 17 |
Tampa Bay Times: After years of planning, USF St. Petersburg opens new home for its business college
Streaming into the sun-drenched atrium, business students at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg are taking in the sights and smells of a brand new building.
Through unscuffed hallways, past a scrolling stock ticker, they trek to their classes, carrying maps to unfamiliar destinations: the Entrepreneurship Suite with plush, colorful chairs dotting the open space, or perhaps the Wealth Management Center with rows of computers primed for marketing research.
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Wednesday, January 18 |
Tampa Bay Times: As St. Pete's Grand Prix enters its 13th year, city support is solid
As IndyCar officials and race promoters gathered Tuesday for their annual winter meeting at the Vinoy Renaissance St. Petersburg Resort & Golf Club, their message was clear: The city has reached landmark status for the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.
"Landmark. That's a good word for it," said Curt Cavin, an IndyCar spokesman. "This has been one of our most consistent races. It's the right time of year, the right location, the demographics, the downtown."
For the seventh straight year, the city's Grand Prix will kick off IndyCar's 17-race season. This time it's over the March 10-12 weekend.
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Wednesday, January 18 |
Tampa Bay Business Journal: Grand Central businesses that rely on St. Pete Pride aren't backing down
St. Petersburg's burgeoning Grand Central District likely is losing its trademark Pride Parade this year. That's bad news for local businesses located throughout the corridor, which spans from 31st Street to 16th Street.
"We more than double our business that weekend," said
Tom Woodard, owner of Pom Pom's Teahouse and Sandwicheria. "A group of us from the Kenwood neighborhood and the Grand Central association have been meeting with the mayor to see what we can do to prevent losing the parade."
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Thursday, January 19 |
The Weekly Challenger: 31st Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Awards Breakfast
The St. Petersburg Metropolitan Section of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) held their 31th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Leadership Awards Breakfast Mon., Jan. 16 at the historic Coliseum in downtown St. Pete.
"We celebrate today the life and legacy and the man that brought hope and healing to America," said Master of Ceremony Mark Wilson of Channel 13, noting that only about 100 people attended the inaugural Leadership Awards Breakfast while the event now draws more than 1,200 attendees.
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Thursday, January 19 |
Tampa Bay Times: Sea level rise could have water lapping at Tampa's edges in 2040, study says
Rising sea levels could swell Tampa Bay 5 to 19 inches over the next quarter-century, sending more water to lap at the edges of the city of Tampa.
That's one conclusion of a new analysis from the Hillsborough City-County Planning Commission, which looked at how potential sea-level rise could affect Tampa and its most flood-prone areas through the year 2040.
St. Petersburg officials also think they were the first city in Florida to update their comprehensive land-use plan to comply with the state's "peril of flood" act, a 2015 law requiring local governments to plan for floods and impacts from sea-level rise. Public works and water resources officials already are factoring the projections into plans to upgrade infrastructure and are looking at potential updates to codes and policies.
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Thursday, January 19 |
Tampa Bay Business Journal: PSTA widens its reach with taxi, Uber partnership
Pinellas County's public transportation agency is expanding its landmark partnership between United Taxi and
Uber after launching nearly a year ago.
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Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority will expand to the entire county its Direct Connect service that gives riders a discounted taxi or Uber ride to or from the bus stop.
Partnerships with taxi companies and Uber have been hailed as an innovative way to expand access to public transportation while still sticking to a tight budget. The Direct Connect program saves PSTA more than $100,000 a year, based on estimates last year.
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Friday, January 20
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News 96.5: St. Pete city council bans smokeless tobacco at Rays games
The St. Petersburg city council has given final approval to an ordinance banning use of smokeless tobacco products at organized sporting events, including baseball games at Tropicana Field, home of the Tampa Bay Rays.
The measure approved Thursday not only applies to players, coaches and managers, but anyone attending events at the sports venues around the city and is aimed at discouraging kids from using products such as chewing tobacco, snuff and dip.
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The City Hall Broadcast: Aaron Carmella Manager of "See Click Fix"
Radio St. Pete has partnered with the City of St. Petersburg on the production of a bi-weekly podcast "The City Hall Broadcast." Join host Will Kuncz of the Homemade Broacast, for this unique, inside and informal view of our city government.
To hear the podcast, click the image above or click here.
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