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Guest AuthorMay 31, 2016

Certain indelible moments remain fixed in our collective memory. Moments that transform history and us. “Where were you when” … moments. Moments like when JFK, MLK and RFK died. Or when Neil Armstrong took one small step. Or this spring when two men vying for America’s highest office sank low debating their … nether regions. […]

Mitch PerryMay 30, 2016

Good morning, people, and welcome to the Summer of 2016. For some of us, it’s already off to a rollicking start, what the Golden State Warriors becoming the first team in 34 years to come back from a 3-1 deficit in the NBA Conference Finals in defeating Oklahoma City in Oakland last night. Among the […]

Mitch PerryMay 25, 2016

In an embarrassing admission, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is acknowledging in a letter to Pinellas County Congressman David Jolly that it falsely declared 4,201 people dead between 2011 and 2015, disrupting the distribution of benefits to those veterans and their dependents. Last year alone, the VA says it erroneously terminated benefits to 1,025 individuals. […]

Mitch PerryMay 24, 2016

Last night in Santa Monica, Bernie Sanders called Hillary Clinton‘s decision not to debate him in California “insulting” to the voters in the Golden State. “A number of months ago our campaign and her campaign reached an agreement on a number of debates, including one here in California,” Sanders told the crowd, according to a […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 8, 2016

The popular perception is that the Democratic Party as a whole stopped debating gun control after Al Gore lost his home state of Tennessee and Bill Clinton‘s Arkansas in the 2000 election. Looking back on that perspective 16 years later, it’s evident that yes, they did stop debating the issue nationally, but that it doesn’t […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 7, 2016

U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor has become just the latest member of Congress to blast the persistent problems with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Listing three major problems that have surfaced in the news recently, the lawmaker has penned a letter to VA Secretary Robert McDonald. She writes that “the VA has not met its responsibility to […]

Mitch PerryNovember 12, 2015

David Jolly once again is criticizing Hillary Clinton for her previous remarks about problems with the Department of Veterans Affairs. He’s also trying to draw in Alan Grayson – his potential opponent in the 2016 U.S. Senate race – into answering Clinton’s comments as well. The Pinellas County Republican congressman appeared on Boston Herald radio Thursday […]

Mitch PerryNovember 5, 2015

I received a text message Wednesday night saying that the Tampa Bay Sierra Club had embraced Hillsborough County Commission Chairwoman Sandy Murman‘s late-hour plan to fund transportation projects, which sounds like a larger-size version of what the club sought this past summer. You remember, it asked the county to began raising mobility fees and the […]

Mitch PerryNovember 4, 2015

Pinellas County GOP Representative David Jolly has written a letter to Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald, informing him that the VA’s recent declaration that former Navy veteran and current Pinellas County resident Michael Rieker is deceased is inaccurate, and that Rieker is “very much alive.” Mistakes can certainly happen, but Jolly notes in his letter that this […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 15, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott rounded off his letter-writing week with one to officials at UF Health Jacksonville, asking 15 questions that could provide insight into why the hospital has become “extraordinarily reliant on federal (Medicaid) funds and what can be done to improve the financial viability” of the facility. Scott sent the letter to Chief Executive […]

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VA admits to David Jolly they’ve mistakenly labeled over 4,200 people dead in last 5 years

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Kathy Castor tells VA Secretary latest problems “unacceptable”

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