2015 Poll results and New Video
Did you see the new "Local Works Day" video? Last week, Floridians celebrated the simple idea that some of the best things in life are local. Food, locally grown. Businesses, locally owned. And communities, loc...
Poll: How Did Lawmakers Do?
This year, Sunshine State lawmakers wrapped up a controversial and contentious Legislative Session that saw legislators wrestle with hot-button topics like Medicaid Expansion and Redistricting. Now, Keep It L...
Millennials Remade Cities, But Will They Keep Living in Them?
Officials in several cities transformed by
young adults try to predict their next move.
Mike Maciag
Governing Magazine
July, 2015
For years, millennials have been hailed as fundamentally different from...
Feature Story – Quest Diagnostics
Hillsborough County and the City of Tampa partnered with state agencies to secure the $9.3 million, 48,000 square-foot investment from industry-leader Quest Diagnostics. The new, state-of-the-art facility ...
Video Feature: How Local Jobs Happen
Many of Florida’s job-creation "grand slams" are the result of close partnerships between local governments and local business leaders, working together to recruit top companies.
Watch this short video for jus...
Action Alert – Bills could increase taxpayers’ costs on utility projects
...if these bills ever make it into the law books, taxpayers will be stuck with the bill — a bill that would come with “severe negative fiscal impact” — nearly every time a holding pond, canal, or other...
Here’s Where You Come In
Your legislators need to hear from you. This year, two big issues in Tallahassee threaten Florida’s local communities: Bureaucratic Overbilling and the Utility Cost-Shift. Every Floridian’s wallet is affected b...
The Poll Results Are In!
The holidays have ended and the latest Keep It Local, Florida reader poll results are back:
Overwhelmingly (and not surprisingly), Keep It Local, Florida readers decided to “keep it local,” with almost 90 pe...
Local Solutions to Big Challenges
Mayor Priscilla Taylor
Palm Beach County
Keep It Local, Florida
These days, Washington politicians seem more intent on waging constant partisan warfare than on developing real solutions to big problems.
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Video Editorial: “The Things We Do Together”
It’s almost Local Works Day and, at Keep It Local, Florida, we’re celebrating you.
Every year, we take a moment to celebrate Florida’s many cities, counties and towns and one of our country’s greatest notion...