Emails & Opinions

Blake DowlingJune 30, 2018

There are certainly lots of hot topics of bad behavior lately. Maxine Waters certainly got the nation’s attention with a recent statement: “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out, and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you […]

Guest AuthorJune 30, 2018

There is a term in the Florida Administrative Procedure Act for when a state agency goes rogue and refuses to follow a legislative statute: “an invalid exercise of delegated legislative authority.” There are other terms for it, but I prefer the plainest: flaunting the law. If it’s a high-profile agency (no names, please), the legislature […]

Guest AuthorJune 29, 2018

It’s another hot Florida summer and as a mother of five children, that means spending time running them from one summer camp to the next, and spending lots of time in the car. As I drive around, the one thing that stands out is the number of people who are texting or paying more attention […]

Guest AuthorJune 29, 2018

President Donald Trump was right when he called the Russia investigation a “cloud” over his administration. It has shadowed his every action since soon after the Inauguration. The question is how to safely dispel it. Here’s what we now know: Fighting back only adds energy to the storm. Firing James Comey led to the appointment […]

Joe HendersonJune 29, 2018

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Three games? That’s the suspension the overlords at the National Football League decided Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston deserved for sexually assaulting a female Uber driver and then lying about it while the league investigated. Three games? That’s it? It was a negotiated settlement. Read into that what you will. To be technical, the […]

Peter SchorschJune 29, 2018

And here we go again. Another ill-fated plan to save a failed development with taxpayer dollars. This story from the Tallahassee Democrat has two agencies (Department of Children and Families and the Department of State) moving into another failed shopping center. Let’s not forget what happened just a few years ago when state agencies were forced […]

Peter SchorschJune 29, 2018

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Daniel McAuliffe, Jim Rosica, and Drew Wilson. We have to lead Sunburn with a major development, first reported by Florida Politics, that could change the dynamics of the Democratic primary for Florida Governor: NextGen America, the civic action group founded […]

Peter SchorschJune 28, 2018

Last Call — A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics. First Shot Another day in America, another mass shooting. This one chills the marrow of those of us in the news business. Thursday’s tragedy came at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, where a gunman shot “multiple people,” according to initial […]

Peter SchorschJune 28, 2018

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“SMEAR JOB,” the tweet blares in all caps. “Journalism is dead,” it adds, blasting former Florida Politics correspondent Ana Ceballos, now the Tallahassee-based reporter for the Naples Daily News. The David Horowitz Freedom Center went on the attack this week over her “partisan hit piece” on Congressman and Republican candidate for Governor Ron DeSantis. That […]

Peter SchorschJune 28, 2018

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Daniel McAuliffe, Jim Rosica, and Drew Wilson. The first Republican gubernatorial debate, Thursday’s highlight at the two-day Republican Party of Florida’s Sunshine Summit, ought to have Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam nervous and U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis salivating. At least under conventional thinking, which […]

Emails & Opinions

Blake Dowling: Discrimination, bad behavior in 2018

Bob Holladay: The Department of Education is flaunting the law

Jackie Toledo: Enough is enough — put down the phone

Christian Cámara: Complete exoneration is why Russia probe must proceed

Joe Henderson: Three game suspension not enough for Jameis Winston

Malled to death

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 6.29.18

Last Call for 6.28.18 — A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics

Conservative ‘warrior’ attacks Naples Daily News, reporter

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 6.28.18