Blake DowlingOctober 16, 2021
10min1079
It’s about time they (someone) did this.
Tag: Steve JobsFor lawmakers, getting to Tallahassee will be a little easier in 2025.
Blake DowlingOctober 16, 2021
Mitch PerryDecember 5, 2017
2min422
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will speak in Tampa next February at the USF Sun Dome. Wozniak single-handedly designed and built the first Apple I kits in 1976, which went on sale for $666.66 and also designed the 1977 follow up Apple II computer. In November 2014, he joined data virtualization company Primary Data as chief […]
Mitch PerryNovember 21, 2017
4min411
South Florida Republican Congressman Carlos Curbelo is the target of a new TV and digital ad calling on him to pass the DREAM Act. Curbelo, who is considered one of the most vulnerable House Republicans in the country for reelection in 2018, has introduced his own version of the Dream Act: Recognizing America’s Children (RAC). RAC, if […]
Blake DowlingJune 10, 2017
7min248
How many of us use Apple products in our day to day business, political and personal lives? When I switched from a Treo to an iPhone 3GS in 2009, it was a game changer for workplace mobility; a truly wonderful device (which I still have as a paperweight). I read Walter Isaacson’s book on Steve […]
Mitch PerryMarch 12, 2017
6min426
Broward Democrat Jeremy Ring isn’t officially a candidate for Chief Financial Officer, but he talked the part during a stop in Tampa on Friday. Speaking at the Oxford Exchange as part of the Cafe Con Tampa weekly event, the former Yahoo executive introduced himself to the audience by humble-bragging about his private sector background, describing himself […]
Mitch PerryDecember 8, 2015
6min260
Props to St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman, whose rebuke to Donald Trump via Twitter is a featured story on this morning’s Drudge Report. I’m going to let the fallout from Trump’s comment that the U.S. government should ban all Muslims from entering the country marinate for at least another 24 hours, to think about something else. It was […]
Jim RosicaSeptember 16, 2015
4min470
An 86-page policy paper from Florida House Speaker-Designate Richard Corcoran (nicknamed “The Manifesto” by reporters) calls for a new “legislative culture of purpose” that includes, among other things, a more transparent budget process. Many of the reforms proposed by Corcoran, a Land O’ Lakes Republican, in his Wednesday acceptance speech are also in the manifesto, […]
Phil AmmannJuly 18, 2015
3min206
Jeb Bush just made his biggest reveal yet on the campaign trail: he is a fan of Apple. Facing a combative election season, the Republican presidential candidate loosened up – just a bit – to list his favored technology in a new YouTube video. Bush is clearly making an effort to attract support among tech […]
Guest AuthorJune 21, 20157min192
In our republic, the past six months has been enough to make all of us wonder whether there’s anything we can do to unify and lift us up as one nation. Almost every day another story illustrates how divided we are. For those old enough to remember, 9/11 brought Americans together much like World War […]
Guest AuthorJanuary 12, 20144min206
So there stands the big guy. Smartly tailored suit, hair with just the right errant wisps. Emotive facial twitches and a stand-up guy winsomeness. Could easily have been the former Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich — now serving time for corruption — a couple years ago as he pleaded his case on the national stage. Surely […]