{"id":16547,"date":"2025-10-23T01:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/16547\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T01:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:24:17","slug":"st-petersburg-honors-legacy-of-former-mayor-david-fischer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/16547\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg honors legacy of former mayor David Fischer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETE., Fla. \u2014 Former St. Petersburg Mayor David Fischer, who led the city from 1991 to 2001 and played a key role in its revitalization, is being remembered as a dedicated public servant.<\/p>\n<p>Current Mayor Ken Welch shared a tribute on social media, calling Fischer a leader with vision, noting his role in bringing the Tampa Bay Devil Rays&#8217; first game to the city.<\/p>\n<p>According to the St. Petersburg Museum of History, Fischer guided the city through a decade of downtown redevelopment and cultural investment, leaving a lasting impact on the community.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trending_Video_TampaBay28.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was 100% sure it was them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Tampa Bay area landscaping business owner narrowly avoided losing $15,000 to scammers who impersonated his bank and knew his detailed banking history. Tampa Bay 28 I-Team Investigator shares <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/news\/local-news\/i-team-investigates\/tampa-small-business-owner-nearly-lost-15k-to-sophisticated-cash-bag-scam\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his story <\/a>and how to spot the same &#8220;cash bag scam&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa small business owner nearly lost $15K to sophisticated &#8216;cash bag scam&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETE., Fla. \u2014 Former St. Petersburg Mayor David Fischer, who led the city from 1991 to 2001&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[205,1978,1375,14031,14032,596,202,204,203,199,201,14033,200,3670,208],"class_list":["post-16547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-abc-action-news","tag-david-fischer","tag-mayor","tag-mayor-death","tag-mayor-dies","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-honors-mayor","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}