Grew up in that area. St Pete Times now the Tampa Bay Times is so far left wing that every subscription should come with a Hammer & Sickle flag and autographed photo of Lenin.
I used to have family in St Pete back in the late 90’s thru about 2004.
Back then, the St Petersburg Times (which by the way, I hadn’t heard they changed their name) was not a good newspaper. You could sense the leftist bias even back then.
I would buy the Tampa Tribune. Their news was better and although I couldn’t call it a GOP-leaning newspaper, I thought their editorial pages were more well-balanced.