St. Pete state funding requests face challenges

State lawmakers have requested $56.8 million for 11 local projects; however, most will only receive about half the desired amount - before facing the governor's veto pen.

If approved, most of the state appropriations would go toward the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Rep. Linda Chaney and Sen. Nick DiCeglie requested $35.9 million for the school’s much-anticipated Environmental and Oceanographic Sciences (EOS) research and teaching facility.

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Bob Devin Jones salutes Florida’s Highwaymen

As the 20th anniversary of The Studio@620 approaches in June, artistic director Bob Devin Jones is looking, fondly, in the rear view mirror.

His one-act play Further on Down the Road, written and first produced during the venue’s first year, is back Thursday night for a staged reading, in conjunction – just as it was back in 2005 – with an exhibition of oil paintings by some of Florida’s most famous little-known artists.