Category: State & National News
Do you like early voting? Lawmakers don’t
St. Pete Times is reporting the 2011 Legislature’s committees have approved: • Cutting Florida’s early-voting period (nearly one out of five ballots were cast early…
Somebody misses online poker
Dear Editor, The US Department of Justice showed their true colors last week, and the colors are not red, white and blue. The US Attorney…
Giving Back to our Military Families
From Labor Secretary Hilda Solis: “There’s no question: service members and their spouses make incredible sacrifices for all of us. Supporting their families and harnessing…
Goodin passed over for FDOT
. Daily News reports Gov. Rick Scott on Monday named Ananth Prasad as the new secretary of the Florida Department of Transportation. Prasad was one…
The Daily Beast picks up story
I spent much of my weekend working on stories for The Daily Beast. The first article was published this morning: “The Gulf of Mexico’s Seafood…
Drill, baby, drill makes a comeback
St. Pete Times: In the year since the giant oil spill, political tides and public opinion seem to have shifted. One poll suggests growing support…
GOP governors and lawmakers cut environmental protections
NY Times: Maine Gov. Paul LePage wants to open up three million acres of the North Woods for development. Florida Gov. Rick Scott has proposed…
State round-up
Two news stories from the Florida newspapers grabbed my attention this morning: Miami Herald has an excellent series on the Bay of Pigs (not Little…
Feds halt online poker
LA Times reports The three largest online poker companies, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker, were shut down Friday by the FBI. Eleven executives…
Busting Tax Myths
The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) member papers are doing what they do best: providing an antidote to the myths that the mainstream media, local…
Scott lawyer: My facts were wrong
St. Pete Times’ political blog, The Buzz, reports that Gov. Rick Scott’s attorney misstated to the Florida Supreme Court that the state had spent $110…
State reps cut pay by 15 percent
The Birmingham News reports that 54 Republican members of the Alabama House of Representatives agreed to cut their monthly expense allowance, which makes up 94…
Florida Poll Shows Romney Beats Obama, Joe S. has shot at U.S. Senate
Press release from Suffolk University: Florida Poll Shows Romney Beats Obama: Recession Not Over in Florida. Gov. Rick Scott wildly unpopular after first 100 days….
Is Sarah Palin a has-been?
This Week reports one-time Tea Party queen has seen her stock fall rapidly over the last few months. Last week, NBC and The Wall Street…
NYT: Why no prep walks after financial crisis?
The New York Times: Several years after the financial crisis, which was caused in large part by reckless lending and excessive risk taking by major…
Citizens has $1.5 billion surplus
Recent financial statements show the state-owned Citizens Property Insurance, has enough money to withstand a replay of the 2004 and 2005 storms without triggering the…
Scott reluctant to go after BP
St. Pete Times: Gov. Rick Scott’s reluctance to make a legal claim against BP irks a cast of Floridians, including Tampa attorney Steve Yerrid, who…
State GOP raises $4.9 million in three months
The Republican Party of Florida raised in the first quarter of 2011 four times more than the Florida Democratic Party and over $1 million more…
America’s 20 Most Miserable Cities
Thank God, Pensacola didn’t make this list published by Forbes. Jacksonville, Fort Lauderdale, Miami and West Palm Beach shared in the dubious distinction. Read more.
Guy Says He Owns 50% Of Facebook
From Business Insider: Paul Ceglia is the man who sued Mark Zuckerberg last July, claiming that, way back in 2003, Zuckerberg had agreed to give…
