Local legislative recap highlights overlooked issues

Former Sen. Jeff Brandes, a moderate Republican known for working across the aisle and unabashedly calling out state leadership, scored the recently concluded legislative session a 4.6 out of 10.

The St. Petersburg native spent 12 years in the Legislature before term limits ended his lawmaking career in 2022. Brandes, who has since founded the Florida Policy Project (FPP) - a nonprofit, research-based think tank - served as the keynote speaker Wednesday for the Suncoast Tiger Bay Club's annual Legislative Recap event.

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The first of three scheduled 2024 City Hall on Tour stops represented a homecoming of sorts for Mayor Ken Welch.

He said his father, the late Dr. David T. Welch, helped build Pinellas Technical College, and he grew up in the building while his father worked in an upstairs office. The elder Welch, a three-time city councilman, had written his college thesis on how vocational education could end poverty and mitigate recidivism.

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