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Phil AmmannApril 27, 2018

Newspaper editors are certainly entitled to hold an opinion; that is why there are Op-Ed pages. In the case of the Tampa Bay Times, the lines between content and its bottom line begin to blur after an online editorial featured a prominent banner ad which takes the exact same position as the op-ed. While it […]

Phil AmmannSeptember 19, 2017

Prudence Duchene will never forget the day she moved to Key West. It was Aug. 30 — the day a storm brewing in the Atlantic got named Irma. Duchene, 22, was actually waiting to board her Florida-bound flight from Albany International Airport when she saw the news that the newly named tropical storm was headed […]

Phil AmmannJuly 31, 2015

Mason-Dixon recently released a new statewide poll testing the two pending solar amendments currently making their way through the process in Florida. Despite the fact that both dealt with a similar subject, solar power, it was a tale of two initiatives: one very passable and the other with seemingly no path to victory. The initiative […]

Phil AmmannJuly 28, 2015

This saltshaker test will be short on originality and long on quotes. The latest Mason-Dixon poll results of both Democratic and Republican primaries for U.S. Senate apparently come from the same survey of, “500 registered Republican voters and 500 registered Democratic voters.” So in assessing its validity/reliability, we will offer our first quote from a recent […]

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Tampa Bay Times criticizes constitutional panel, while running dark money ad criticizing CRC

For a new Key West resident, Irma was her welcome-to-town

Applying the Salt Shaker Test to the solar amendment poll

Lotsa salt applied to Mason-Dixon U.S. Senate poll