edited by: Kay Day,
Florida Editor
The June rainfall numbers are in!RPOF Chairman Jim Greer, who caught heat for his critical assessment of Sarah Palin's campaign skills alongside John McCain, still managed to toss her a compliment after today's announcement she was resigning as Alaska governor.
“On behalf of the Republican Party of Florida and Republicans [...]
This guest posting ex-cypherpunk mordaxus at Emergent Chaos gets how judges think. And uses the word “gedanken” properly. Must be someone I know. The “gedanken” limits the field some too.
Emergent Chaos: The Punch Line Goes at the End
Last year, the big [...]
Was this a wack-job move or the first salvo in her campaign for the presidency in 2012? Depending on your perspective, you can read Sarah Palin’s press conference today either way.
The breathless recitation of right-wing talking points and multiple excuses [...]
ST. PETERSBURG — The city’s top cop is done taking shots from mayoral candidates. This week, Police Chief Chuck Harmon decided to fire back.
Well, sort of. Compared to Harmon’s usually blasé public statements, his comments to the St. Petersburg Times on Thursday were positively racy.
The subject was a Times poll that [...]
As I prepare next year’s lecture notes, this idea keeps growing on me.
But if it failed, it would fail horribly….
One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar.
I guess that statement requires a bit of explanation.
The topic of Corporate Finance/Capital Markets is, even within the world of [...]
Pundits have been filling the airwaves over the past week speculating about if and when South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, the latest family values-touting Republican to admit to adultery, might be forced to resign. Some pundits even suggested he might resign over the July Fourth holiday weekend.
The holiday has come [...]
(image: Karim Kadim/A.P. Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 24, 2009)
from: Iran Update: “Can You Hear Me Now? [...]Michael’s back! Yes, after a three week absence, Michael Shaw (Bagnewsnotes) will be back with “Pictures of the Week.” The pictures will be posted here soon. Tune in to share your thoughts.
We’re still waiting to hear if Craig Latimer, chief of staff to the late Hillsborough Supervisor of Elections [...]
By Kelly Cornelius
PoHo contributor & R-LAND; activist
Remember that water bill we were concerned about that would silence public input and made water permits easier to get (behind closed doors)? Environmentalists and editorial boards alike urged The Bent Over one to veto it. Well, on the [...]
CHICAGO – Visitors to the Sears Tower's new glass balconies all seem to agree: The first step is the hardest.
The balconies are suspended 1,353 feet in the air and jut out four feet from the building's 103rd floor Skydeck.' [...]
Crist administration handles stimulus "dismally"
The Daytona Beach News Journal editorial board: Smart Growth America "released a report on how states spent the first portion of the $787 billion stimulus package Congress approved in February."
SEMINOLE -- Mary Russell has announced she'll run for the state House District 54 seat now held by Republican Jim Frishe.
Russell, a Democrat, lives in Seminole and graduated from Seminole High School, St. Petersburg College and the University of South Florida. She is perhaps best known for her 2002-06 stint [...]
By Kelly Cornelius
PoHo contributor & R-LAND; activist
Oh boy, where to start on this Cone Ranch scheme proposal? Recall Ken Half-Truth Hagan’s half-baked proposal to sell Cone Ranch to private investors in order to “preserve it”? Apparently the Hillsborough County Commission chair all of [...]
To hear the customers filtering in and out of the Amscot office on 34th Street S, Gibbons' Amscot Financial is a welcome and convenient service.
"It's clean, they're always friendly and it's easy,'' said Sandra Hall, a St. Petersburg office clerk, after cashing a check and [...]
PERHAPS.....Just perhaps, Dear Leader PrezBo needs to read this piece BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR!
An interesting poll from Rasmussen shows that the founding fathers might be in trouble if they were trying to get that Declaration thing going today. 89% of American adults agree that “we are all endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of [...]
I knew Stewart would have a field day with the Sanford tragedy but this exceeds expectations.
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There's an excellent, excellent Herald editorial on the Honduran military coup that I thought I would highlight in a separate post.Deputy Attorney General Roy David Urtecho revealed on Wednesday that his office had issued an arrest warrant for Mr. Zelaya on charges of treason and' [...] 
Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds, asks the questions....
Abusive, cruel, philanthropist, loyal, disloyal, good samaritan, phony, vengeful, manipulative, vindictive, delusional, a guy with a heart of gold, a real giver, financial deadbeat, bully, kind-hearted… Tampa Bay’s most famous resident, George Steinbrenner, has probably been called all these things and more at one time or [...]
Orlando Sentinel: State Rep. Sandy Adams, R-Orlando, said today that "there's a high probability that there's truth to" the rumor she plans to run against freshman Democratic Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas.
"We're putting everything together now, and I expect to make an announcement soon," Adams said.
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[...]Howard Troxler: A federal judge has thrown out Florida's laws that regulated ECOs. And Gov. Charlie Crist's administration has just decided not to appeal. That means ECOs — there were 105 registered in Florida before the ruling — will be unregulated by the state in the coming election cycle. [...]
The irony-challenged Family Research Council has launched an attack against Kevin Jennings, President Obama's appointee to a post in the Department of Education, because he's (gasp) gay and he used to be the executive director of GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.Jennings is set [...] 
Seems only appropriate...
