Category: State & National News

From the tears of John Boehner and the resurrection of Harry Reid; Virginia Thomas’ voicemail and Eric Massa’s tickling, 2010 was a long, strange trip. Read more.

Gov.-elect Rick Scott attacked his opponent Florida CEO Alex Sink for mismanagement of the state pension fund, citing how it, like nearly all state pensions, had lost value during the 2007 market…

New York Times reports Pritchard, Ala. was warned for years that if it did nothing, its pension fund would run out of money by 2009. Right on schedule, its fund ran dry…

….is Pensacola Mayor-elect Ashton Hayward’s team watching Gov-elect Rick Scott’s transition teams? Scott’s groups have made some bold recommendations: Education: Massive restructuring of education that would provide vouchers for all, eliminate teacher…

From the tears of John Boehner and the resurrection of Harry Reid; Virginia Thomas’ voicemail and Eric Massa’s tickling, 2010 was a long, strange trip. Read The Daily Beast list.

From Palm Beach News: Here are some suggestions from Scott’s advisers: Shut down A.G. Holley Hospital in Lantana. Privatize Florida’s three state mental health hospitals. Combine the departments of transportation, community affairs…

The Defense Department has posted documents regarding the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. One that is particularly disturbing is an interview with an unnamed member of a Guantanamo Bay “Behavioral Science…

From St.Petersburg Times: A GOP strategist developed a brilliant and powerful attack on President Obama’s health care reform plan, urging party leaders to call it a “gov­ern­ment take­over.” It was pervasive, effective…

The New Yorker published last June this article on Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, and his mission for total transparency. It gives a fascinating insight into the man that governments around the world…

ProPublica: Ken Feinberg, head of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility that is handling the BP claims process, has admitted his process is plagued with opaque decision-making and poor communications and promised to…

Media Matters reports that Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon sent an email to his reporters last December questioning the “veracity of climate change data” and ordering the network’s journalists to…

The second week of the murder trial of former county commissioner Stephen Nodine had testimony from more technical experts, friends of both Nodine and the victim Angel Downs and Emily Simmons, who…

As much as some people scoff at the thought of a Mexican mafia in the Pensacola area, Alejandrino Popoca, 33, of Foley, Ala.was sentenced last week to 30 years in federal prison…

Gov.-elect Rick Scott will meet with state economists today. The latest estimates have the budget shortfall increasing to $2.5 billion, up from $1.5 billion a week or so ago. This is one…

Talking Points Memo: Michael Steele is down but he’s not out. Shortly after informing the 168 voting members of the Republican National Committee that he’ll be running for second term as RNC…

Miami Herald reports Republicans view Democrat Bill Nelson as vulnerable in Republican-dominated Florida. He is up for re-election to the U.S. Senate in 2012. Outgoing Sen. George LeMieux, State Senate President Mike…

St. Petersburg Times’ Lucy Morgan busted wide open the story on the $50-million courthouse for the First District Court of Appeals. Today it opens and many lawmakers have amnesia as to how…