Blake Collins Group

Blake Collins Group sponsors Jameis Winston’s: A Night to Achieve Dreams

October 18, 2017

The mission of Jameis Winston’s Dream Forever Foundation is to impact the lives of financially disadvantaged children and youth through encouragement, opportunities and resources to develop and achieve their dreams. Winston and his Buccaneers teammates will step off the field for one evening only to mix and mingle raising funds to launch the Foundation. Funds … More Blake Collins Group sponsors Jameis Winston’s: A Night to Achieve Dreams

Florida This Week

August 19, 2017

Florida This Week is West Central Florida’s longest-running primetime public affairs program. Moderator Rob Lorei leads a diverse roundtable of journalists, academics, officials, and other political insiders for lively talk. This week: The violence in Charlottesville last weekend has sparked a national debate over where the country is heading under President Trump; The Hillsborough County … More Florida This Week

A New Narrative for TBARTA

June 27, 2017

After some of the usual Tallahassee two-step, the Legislature passed the Tampa Bay Transit Authority bill and last week the Governor signed it. The inspiration for the Transit Authority bill was the proposal spearheaded last year by Pinellas County Commission Chair, Janet Long. We have all watched the region struggle to address the transportation gridlock … More A New Narrative for TBARTA

Risk Experts on Boards Still Not a Given

April 16, 2017

April 10, 2017 By Tony Chapelle, Agenda Week Governance observers disagree about designating board members to serve as risk experts. Fewer than 20% of Fortune 500 directors serve on a board that has designated any member as a risk expert. That’s an “astonishingly low number,” according to an investigation that reviewed the biographies of more … More Risk Experts on Boards Still Not a Given

Florida This Week

April 16, 2017

Florida This Week is West Central Florida’s longest-running primetime public affairs program. Moderator Rob Lorei leads a diverse roundtable of journalists, academics, officials, and other political insiders for lively talk. This week: Senator Bill Nelson says if the allegations of Russian involvement in the November election are true, it was an “act of war;” The … More Florida This Week

Transportation in the Tampa Bay Region

October 27, 2016

Creating the Success Agenda Jim Ley, February 2016 Thirty five years in local government service taught me one thing – the status quo is in charge. To make progress, there must be leaders who are willing to challenge the status quo, propose a new agenda and be politically nimble enough to adapt to input from … More Transportation in the Tampa Bay Region

The Law Enforcement Narrative is Changing

October 24, 2016

Tony Collins-2016 All stories have a narrative. It is how we transmit values, enrich the story-telling and identify who to jeer and who to cheer. In its simplest form every story has a hero, a villain and a foreseeable outcome which we call the narrative. Our traditional narrative lets us know that despite Luke Skywalker … More The Law Enforcement Narrative is Changing

Florida This Week

October 23, 2016

Florida This Week is West Central Florida’s longest-running primetime public affairs program. Moderator Rob Lorei leads a diverse roundtable of journalists, academics, officials, and other political insiders for lively talk. This week: Calls for a federal investigation into Donald Trump’s donation to Pam Bondi’s campaign; The number of debates between the U.S. Senate candidates is still … More Florida This Week

The Purpose of Public Transportation

October 23, 2016

Jim Ley-2016 We live in the most transportation rich country in the world. The majority of our population lies within an hour of a major airport. The average family owns in excess of two automobiles. It can be argued that our transportation system focuses on serving individual needs first, and our collective needs second. For … More The Purpose of Public Transportation

Florida This Week

October 1, 2016

Florida This Week: April 22, 2016 Tony Collins joins Rob Lorei to discuss: major developments in the race for U.S. Senate; Congresswoman Gwen Graham says she will not run for re-election but she may run for governor in 2018; The state turns down a quarter of a billion dollars in help for homeowners who are … More Florida This Week

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