Category: State & National News
BP: Feinberg plan too generous
Mobile Press Register is reporting: BP complained in a letter to Ken Feinberg, head of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (which is headquartered in Dublin,…
Officials work to circumvent Gov. Scott decision on high speed rail
St. Pete Times reports lawmakers question whether Gov. Scott has the authority to unilaterally cancel the Tampa-to-Orlando line by rejecting $2.4 billion in federal funding…
Scott assumes all black legisators grew up poor
When white people, without any real experience working and living with people of other cultures and racial backgrounds, try to interact with minorities, the results…
Race to the Top for Student Success Act
Florida Tribune reports This year’s version of a teacher merit pay bill sailed through the Senate Education Pre-K-12 Committee last week. The bill has been…
Stephen Nodine: Battle over re-trial begins
In the Mobile Press Register, former County Commissioner Stephen Nodine’s attorney is claiming misconduct by the prosecution in the first trial of Nodine for the…
U.S. Chamber law firm plots against foes
While working on the Ed Schultz radio show yesterday, one of the stories covered was based by ThinkProgress on how a law firm representing the…
Giffords’ recovery is amazing
New York Times: Keeping up her rapid recovery, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been mouthing words, lip-syncing to songs, walking, sitting with excellent posture, and even…
How Facebook won in Egypt
Wael Ghonim worked a day job at Google, but at night he was organizing a revolution. In this week’s Newsweek, Mike Giglio on how the…
“Rick Scott lied”
Orlando Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell review Gov. Rick Scott’s budget and claims that the governor lied. On the campaign trail, Scott insisted that he would…
BP subcontractors are now complaining
Biloxi Sun Herald: Subcontractors say they are owed millions for BP oil-disaster cleanup but the Texas company BP hired to oversee the work is months…
Trend Alert: More revolts coming
For years, I have kept in contact with Gerald Celente, one of the best trend experts in the world. He is a political atheist, meaning…
U.S. senate bill would ban drug sold as bath salt
Reuters reports: Two drugs that produce a “meth-like” high and are being sold under the guise of “bath salts” would be banned as federally controlled…
Obamacare ruling expected today
Today, Judge Roger Vinson is expected to decide the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that the National…
Egypt on Fire
I received a link to this website from a colleague in the Middle East: “The people in Egypt are under governmental siege. Mubarak regime is…
States with Smartest Kids
Every year, 4th and 8th graders are tested in reading and math, and some states produce far more top achievers than others. The Daily Beast…
Scott names new head for DCF
Gov. Rick Scott has tapped David Wilkins to head Department of Children & Families. According to the Miami Herald, Wilkins is the finance chief of…
Two banks top Florida complaint list
St. Petersburg Times reports Bank of America and JPÂMorgan Chase accounted for a quarter of all bank complaints in Florida last year, with mortgage disputes…
Arizona Shooting: Is talking now impossible?
“Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that,†Martin Luther King, Jr. In the effort to open up discussion as to how we…
Florida Association of Counties visits DC
Press Release: Last week Florida Association of Counties President-Elect Doug Smith (Martin County) and Executive Director Chris Holley met with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to…
Evers has new gun bills, of course
State Senator Durell Peaden was known for introducing a new gun bill nearly every session. His successor Greg Evers, who was also heavily supported by…
