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Five street art installations in St. Petersburg will be painted over, Mayor Ken Welch announced on social media Friday.
St. Petersburg will comply with a state directive to remove the city's street art, Mayor Ken Welch announced Friday. Why it ...
He said that way, residents 'can rely on stable and dependable services as we shape the long-term future of energy in St.
While these specific art murals will be removed, the spirit of what makes St. Pete a special place can’t be suppressed.' ...
Nadine Smith, president of St. Pete-based statewide LGBTQ+ advocacy group Equality Florida, told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay ...
Last October, Hurricane Milton destroyed the roof of Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., sending the Tampa Bay Rays into ...
Miami Beach has been ordered to remove its rainbow crosswalk on Ocean Drive by the first week of September. “We need to ...
The City Council voted Thursday to formally ask Mayor Ken Welch’s administration to pursue a study digging into the ...
While St. Pete City Council mulls over FDOT's demand to erase its rainbow intersection, the state took matters into its own ...
Welch went from a kid at Melrose, the all-Black school in town during segregation, to the Mayor-Elect shaking hands and giving hugs. After his dad ran for mayor 30 years ago, Welch won this ...
Mayor Ken Welch says he is ready to move on if the Tampa Bay Rays back out of the stadium agreement signed last year. St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch has conceded that the deal he struck with the ...
Ken Welch used to write to the St. Petersburg Times criticizing the “political left.” Now he has endorsements from organizations he used to oppose. They say he’s changed.