In 2025, the most read stories on Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s website illustrate a readership extremely interested in police accountability, Trump’s homegrown attorney general, immigration, elections, and the environment (you guys really care about what happens as FDOT makes plans to touch up the Courtney Campbell Causeway!)
DOGE
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‘The legacy will be a dark legacy’: Rep. Maxwell Frost reacts to Elon Musk’s last day at the White House
Frost said Musk’s efforts reveal that a ‘corporate slash and burn mentality is not how you run a country.’
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Florida Democrats call on Trump to reconsider NOAA budget cuts
“Slashing the workforces at NWS and NOAA cripples their ability to warn and protect the public, endangering millions of Americans…”
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Ron DeSantis wants Florida to have its own ‘DOGE’ to examine state and local government spending
“For too long, nobody has cared about the taxpayers.”
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‘You’re seeing the apple cart be upended’: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis praises Elon Musk’s DOGE team
However, a recent poll shows Republicans have grown wary of Musk.