Former city spokesperson oversees new political publication

Janelle Irwin Taylor, St. Petersburg’s former communications director, will now serve as publisher for a local political insider’s recently launched “visionary endeavor.”

Peter Schorsch, publisher of Florida Politics, hired Taylor to oversee and help grow a spinoff, Southeast Politics. The new online journal covers “campaigns, elections, government, lobbying and politics below the Mason-Dixon Line.”

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Habitat begins its largest townhome development

Pinellas County will soon have 54 new affordable homeownership opportunities as local leaders celebrated Longlake Preserve’s groundbreaking Wednesday morning.

The nearly $20 million townhome project represents Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas and West Pasco Counties’ largest multifamily development in its 39-year history. CEO Mike Sutton told the Catalyst that the previous record was 19 units.