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DIFFERENT HOME
Video turns up that suggests the miracle cat’s
owner knew he might not
be dead when he had him
buried. The Humane Society
says that means Bart should
not be returned as originally
planned. Local,1B
The commissioner
and principal owner
align in calling Tampa
Bay their first choice.
Penny for Pinellas
funds for police HQ
St. Petersburg officials
plan to fund the $70 million
facility partly by redirecting
money from other Penny for
Pinellas projects. Local,1B
BY MARC TOPKIN
Times Staff Writer
Chief Jane Castor,
always a cop
Tampa’s police chief spots
a motorist driving erratically.
Of the DUI arrest, she said,
“I told the other officers who
responded, ‘Actually it’s kind
of nice to be involved in real
police work.’” Local, 3B
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Dr. Marcy Solomon Baker examines Michelle Santacreu, 16, Friday in Tampa. Baker requires that patients be vaccinated.
UNVACCINATED?
NOT IN MY OFFICE
Lightning owner
sells a mansion
Jeff Vinik’s place in Massachusetts goes for $10.3
million. He has two homes in
Tampa and one in the works
in Sarasota. Business, 4B
Agriculture official
bullish on Cuba
Some doctors refuse to see kids whose parents object to shots.
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TAMPA — If parents refuse to vaccinate their children, Dr. Marcy Solomon Baker politely asks them to
find a new pediatrician. She doesn’t
want their children sitting in the
waiting room and putting infants
and very sick patients at risk.
Amid the recent measles outbreak, Baker, who works for BayCare Medical
Group, has been
hearing from
parents who
want reassurance that the
policy is still
in place.
“‘You guys don’t see unvaccinated
kids, right?’ ” she said, recalling a
typical conversation.
Measles, a highly contagious,
painful and potentially fatal disease,
is back on the radar just a dozen
years after it was declared virtually
eliminated in the United States.
Since New Year’s, the outbreak
now stands at 96 cases, none yet
in Florida, according to estimates
Thursday from the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. In
January alone, the United States
has seen more cases of measles than
it typically had in an entire year —
until a huge spike in 2014, with 644
cases.
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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
Tom Vilsack predicts U.S.
trade with Cuba could grow
to $500 million with Florida
among the states capitalizing the most. Business, 4B
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As more cases emerge,
concerns are spreading
across the country.
New York Times
The measles outbreak tied to Disneyland continued to spread anxiety Friday
as two new cases emerged overnight in
California’s Marin County — along with
at least one in Nebraska — while Arizona
officials warned that at least 1,000 people
might have been exposed to the virus
through seven others in that state.
Since Jan. 1, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have confirmed 96 measles cases in several states.
California’s health department, which
is updating a measles count more frequently, has linked more than 90 cases in
the United States and Mexico to the Disneyland outbreak.
Concern about the highly contagious
disease intensified Friday in several states,
including Minnesota, where health officials are notifying hundreds who might
have come into contact with a University
of Minnesota student with measles.
There was also anxiety in Arizona,
where thousands of people are arriving
in Phoenix for the Super Bowl on Sunday. The CDC is now advising anyone
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ST. PETERSBURG — Though
talks between the Rays and St.
Petersburg officials on the stadium issue are again stalled — at
least publicly — since the failed
vote, new baseball commissioner
Rob Manfred spoke encouragingly Friday about a new facility
and the Tampa Bay market overall.
Manfred told the Tampa Bay
Times that Rays principal owner
Stuart Sternberg remains optimistic something can be worked
out somewhere in the Tampa Bay
area, and he shares that view.
“I’m encouraged by his optimism,” Manfred said from his
New York office. “The most
encouraging thing for
your readers
is that I know
for a certainty
that Stu’s first
choice is to
stay in Tampa
Bay.”
While Man- Commissioner
fred agreed Rob Manfred
with prede- says the right
c e s s o r B u d stadium could
Selig that the make the
Rays “abso- area a vibrant
lutely” need a market.
new stadium
to replace Tropicana Field, he
spoke more optimistically —
despite their sagging attendance
— about the chances for success.
“I think with an appropriate
facility that Tampa Bay can be a
vibrant major-league market,”
Manfred said.
Informed of Manfred’s comments, Sternberg said via email
that they are very much of similar view: “The new commissioner is in tune with my feelings
and intentions. I stand behind
his characterization.”
Manfred further defused any
speculation that the Rays might
be headed elsewhere. He made
clear that his recent comments
about Montreal improving its
appeal as a viable market to get a
team back “had no specific relation” to the Tampa Bay situation
(or any other current team).
He said, basically, that it’s good
for business “to have cities that
want to have a team” and reiterated that MLB has a “long-term
policy of trying to make this
work in the communities that
we’re in. You know that we don’t
take clubs moving lightly.”
There has been little public stadium discussion since
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Romney’s absence aids Couple to say ‘aye do’ at Gasparilla
Bush but opens up race
They’ll be dressed in full pirate regalia as they wed before boarding a parade float.
BY RACHEL CROSBY
Times Staff Writer
BY DAN BALZ
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s decision not to jump into the 2016 presidential campaign gives an immediate boost
to former Florida Gov.
Analysis Jeb Bush’s candidacy,
but over time it could
have an even greater impact by opening up the nomination contest to some of
Bush’s rivals.
Romney’s three-week consideration of
a third presidential campaign left the race
where it was before he announced his
interest in possibly running again. It was
wide open before, and it remains wide
open now.
But though wide open, there’s little
doubt that Bush will be seen — and tar-
geted — as the obvious frontrunner, given
his name, his potential fundraising network, his rough standing in some national
polls compared with
his remaining rivals,
and the aggressiveness,
Mitt Romney
skill and speed with
decided not
which he has moved in
to run for
this very early stage to
president in
assemble a campaign
2016.
operation.
It will now be Bush’s opportunity to
move even more adroitly to consolidate
his position. He has shown flashes of readiness as he has moved around the coun-
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OCTAVIO JONES | Times
John Mark Wallace, right, and fiancee Jamie
Labrecque at their rehearsal dinner Thursday.
They’ll marry before the parade starts today.
TAMPA — For one Tampa couple, the 100th Gasparilla Pirate
Fest will mark more than just a
day of merriment.
John Mark Wallace, 59, and
Jamie Labrecque, 52, will say
“I do” this morning outside the
Academy of the Holy Names
before boarding a parade float as
newlyweds. And their ceremony
will feature pirates a’ plenty.
Nearly 300 people are expected
to attend the bash off Bayshore
Boulevard.
“I’m the luckiest man in the
world right now,” Wallace said at
his wedding rehearsal Thursday.
The Tampa native and Krewe
of Rogues member said Gaspa-
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Pirates run wild in an annual event
that shows the city at its best, and
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rilla is part of his heritage. His
bride, Labrecque, is a Krewe of
Les Belle Femmes member. And
when Wallace proposed a pirate
wedding, she was “cool with it,”
he said.
So was Ye Mystic Krewe of
Gasparilla, which organizes the
.
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