HSN hosts react to the end of an era in St. Pete

L.L. Kirchner, who has guest-hosted HSN programming for the past nine years, expressed disbelief over the cable shopping network shuttering its sprawling St. Petersburg campus after a 47-year run.

However, the local author and screenwriter noted sales had trended downward in recent years. “I wondered how long they would keep doing it,” Kirchner said. “But then it seemed like they kept doing it … So, I thought, well, they must be making more money than I’m aware of.”

County approves $8 million for affordable housing development

Women’s growth, networking event coming to downtown St. Pete

Mayor prefers modifying rather than removing I-175

Mayor Ken Welch realizes it will take much more than reconnecting roads to mitigate the decades-old, systemic disenfranchisement of Black families and businesses in St. Petersburg.

Long-discussed efforts to mitigate an interstate’s negative impacts on predominantly African American neighborhoods in St. Petersburg recently received federal funding. According to city reports, construction of I-175 displaced nearly 4,000 people in the late 1970s.

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