Sinking in Sewage: Can St. Pete Clean Up It’s Act? By Krystel Knowles A sewage spill of roughly 200 million gallons of raw and partially treated sewage ended up the Tampa Bay area in 2015 and 2016. This incident brought to light that if something isn’t done to the infrastructure the view that makes St.… Continue reading Sinking in Sewage
Category: Politics
Affordable Housing Crisis Hits Hard in St. Petersburg’s Districts 5 and 7
Recycling deficits in St. Petersburg Need Solutions from Elected Officials
Progressive St. Petersburg… and its dividing line
Dispelling the Deserts: Communities Implement Their Own Solutions Against Food Insecurity in St. Petersburg
Elections 2019
Elections 2019 St. Petersburg’s City Council, Districts 5 and 7 The USFSP Master’s Program in Digital Journalism and Design (DJD) covered some issues raised by community members in municipal districts 5 and 7, which are up for elections this Tuesday, November 5. Here is the election information retrieved from the Pinellas… Continue reading Elections 2019
Campaign revolutionaries: Two radical candidates hope to shake up St. Pete politics
By Indhira Suero Acosta Eritha “Akile” Cainion, running for City Council 6, and Jesse Nevel, for Mayor, addressed the Tropicana Field’s future and housing issues during a rally held on April 9, 2017, at the St. Petersburg Uhuru House. Eritha “Akile” Cainion, a 20-year-old activist who works as a cashier at a local shoe store,… Continue reading Campaign revolutionaries: Two radical candidates hope to shake up St. Pete politics
Midtown Moments: Black History Month
By Abigail Payne Black History Month in St. Petersburg had a productive start this 2017. For the second year in a row, Mayor Rick Kriseman rose the Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American History Museum flag above City Hall. The event took place on Feb. 1, 2017, to jump start Black History Month. It represented… Continue reading Midtown Moments: Black History Month
Colorful cast vies for Gulfport Council seats
GULFPORT — When voters go to the polls on Tuesday, they will decide whether to reward two City Council incumbents with another two-year term. One incumbent has drawn token opposition. The other has drawn a crowd. Linda Bailey filed to run in Ward 2 in November, then essentially disappeared. She did not attend two candidate… Continue reading Colorful cast vies for Gulfport Council seats
John Lewis talks to St. Petersburg
Lewis speaks on the importance of voting, optimism in the face of fear, and endorses Charlie Crist BY JONAH KING Neighborhood News Bureau Civil rights is a 9-word problem: “Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, I Have a Dream.” Those nine words are the universal American understanding of the civil rights movement of the 1960’s. Another two… Continue reading John Lewis talks to St. Petersburg