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Mitch Perry

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As seen in: Florida Phoenix, Art In Your Ear, MSN, MSN Canada, Yahoo Entertainment, MSN UK, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Substack, ZDNet, Flipboard and
Covers:  tampa bay news & politics, florida politics, nfl, journalismnews, nba, indie music
Doesn't Cover: crime
SF native who still loves the Golden State Warriors, SF Giants and indie rock. Running addict. You can reach me at Mitch@floridaphoenix.com

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Winds of change blowing around Cuba

Winds of change blowing around Cuba

On a Friday evening in late March, over 100 people jammed into the back room at Tampa's Mise en Place restaur…

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Winds of change blowing around Cuba

Winds of change blowing around Cuba

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Articles

Ashley Moody backed proposal to bar ‘anti-weaponization’ payments to J6 rioters who assaulted police

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By Mitch Perry 
| Florida Phoenix
Florida’s junior U.S. senator, Ashley Moody has been a consistent supporter of the Trump administration since she was appointed to her seat by Gov. Ron DeSantis in January 2025. However, she broke with the administration last week in a vote on an amendment regarding the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund criticized by both Democratic and Republican senators in recent weeks — though not by Moody. Florida’s other senator, Rick Scott, voted no on the amendment.
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Democrats get into the Chief Financial Officer race

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By Mitch Perry 
| WLRN-FM (Miami, FL)
The Florida Democratic Party now has some competition in the race to produce a challenger to Republican Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia in November. Former Miami-Dade County Democratic state Sen. Annette Taddeo announced her candidacy on Monday. “Florida families are getting crushed. Your homeowner’s insurance bill doubled. Then tripled. And the politicians in Tallahassee? They turned a blind eye — or made it worse,” Taddeo said in her launch video.
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St. Pete votes to explore dumping Duke Energy for a city-run electric utility

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By Mitch Perry 
| The Islander News
Responding to the frustrations expressed by local residents, the St. Petersburg City Council has taken a major step towards potentially jettisoning its longtime relationship with Duke Energy Florida and creating its own city-run electric utility. The council voted 4-3 Thursday to spend up to $590,000 to hire Texas-based NewGen Strategies and Solutions to analyze whether it would be in the city’s best interests to leave Duke Energy and form its own municipal utility.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Of course!

What does it mean to be a journalist?

There's an enormous amount of responsibility to tell the stories that need to told, as fairly and as accurately as possible.

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Twitter's been great for me getting my blog posts get wider circulation out in cyberspace.

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