Mayor Rick Kriseman marked the start of St. Pete Pride, a month-long commemoration of the LGBTQ community, by raising the Pride flag at City Hall Monday morning.
The annual occasion was a much more somber event than in previous years.
Amid severe health and economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s also been one unanticipated outcome: increased collaboration among nonprofit organizations.
Two distinct pictures are emerging of Saturday’s protest in St. Petersburg, sparked by the death of an unarmed black man in police custody in Minneapolis, Minn.
The draft plan, which Tadlock says is underway now, is 125 pages long and has been worked on by nine different teams throughout the USF system, including Tampa, Sarasota and St. Petersburg. The plan must be compliant with CDC guidelines, governmental orders, public health best practices, and much more, Tadlock explains.
The plan is expected to go before the USF Board of Trustees June 9.
Ralph Heath Jr. took in sick and injured birds at this very spot on the Gulf coast beginning in the early 1970s. For decades, his Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary was the largest not-for-profit wild bird sanctuary and rehabilitation center in the United States.
With Just Getting Started, her upcoming twice-monthly podcast, St. Petersburg Deputy Mayor Dr. Kanika Tomalin hopes to bridge the awkward gap between life before and after the coronavirus pandemic.
Rep. Charlie Crist and a dozen other members of the Florida congressional delegation are calling on Gov. Ron DeSantis to extend the state’s moratorium on evictions, which is set to expire Tuesday, June 2.
