Regional planning organization update sparks debate

Locally-led efforts to create a framework for what could become the state's largest metropolitan planning organization continue moving forward. However, at least one Pinellas County commissioner has signaled opposition.

Merging Pinellas, Hillsborough and Pasco Counties’ planning agencies would significantly impact the region’s future. Whit Blanton, executive director of Forward Pinellas, provided an update on exploratory progress Thursday morning.

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Arts Alive! podcast: Cheap Trick’s Robin Zander

According to Webster, the definition of estimable is “worthy of esteem.”

Your Arts Alive! host refers to today’s guest as estimable in the opening moments of this conversation, sparking a brief back-and-forth about what, exactly, the word means.

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