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🎡 Sarasota Winter Carnival: Enjoy games, rides, festival foods and tons of family-friendly fun.

• Tonight 5-11pm, Saturday 12-11pm, Sunday 12-10pm and Monday 12-8pm at The Mall at University Town Center. Entry and parking are free, ride tickets extra.
• Plus: A Beer & Burger festival next door, 12-8pm Saturday. $15.

After Rena Frazier of "Selling Tampa" gave us tips on how to navigate the hot housing market, we began to wonder how an influencer like her interacts with tech.

A storm is coming. That much we know. But when?

Paul Tash, the Tampa Bay Times' longest-serving CEO and chairman, is retiring.

What's happening: The paper's controversial leader is leaving after 47 years, it announced yesterday, but will continue to chair the board of trustees at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, the nonprofit owner of the newspaper.

• Times Publishing Co. president Conan Gallaty will replace him as CEO and is expected to become chairman when Tash, 67, leaves its board of directors July 1.

Reader mailbag: "Ahoy! I'm a newly adopted Tampan and realize I know very little about Gasparilla — a name that seems to pop up in the strangest of places.

• "I'd love to read more about it (him?)."

😬 We're worried about Omicron.

Driving the news: Per a new public opinion survey from the University of South Florida, nearly 75% of Americans are "very concerned" or "somewhat concerned" about emerging variants.

Florida senators on a panel were apprehensive but voted 6-2 to advance SB 1024, a bill intended to restrict the expansion of rooftop solar in Florida.

• SB 1024 would lower utility savings for Floridians using rooftop solar panels by reducing how much utilities pay solar users to buy back their excess energy.

The FDA extended the expiration date on one million COVID-19 test kits that have become a political football in recent weeks, per the Times/Herald.