Emails & Opinions

Joe HendersonJuly 12, 2018

Perhaps no politician in Hillsborough County has been more identified with the effort to build a stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays than Ken Hagan. The veteran County Commissioner was key in trying to convince the Rays that Ybor City was the right place to put a stadium. What he does behind the scenes could […]

Peter SchorschJuly 11, 2018

Do the Tampa Bay Rays know what league they’re playing in? I’m not talking about on-the-field, where they play in the MLB against the Yankees and the Red Sox. I’m talking about off-the-field, where the team is hoping to convince a cash-strapped community to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build it a new […]

Peter SchorschJuly 11, 2018

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Daniel McAuliffe, Jim Rosica, and Drew Wilson. Let’s admit something right up front. We had to suppress a gasp yesterday afternoon as the Tampa Bay Rays unveiled the sticker price for the proposed baseball stadium in Ybor City, where […]

Peter SchorschJuly 10, 2018

Last Call — A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics. First Shot A trio of rallies tomorrow will call for Gov. Rick Scott “to retract the state’s appeals on two medical marijuana constitutional challenge cases,” the organizer said in a news release. Three protests will take place simultaneously Wednesday at noon — […]

Joe HendersonJuly 10, 2018

I’ll admit something right up front. I had to suppress a gasp Tuesday afternoon when the Tampa Bay Rays unveiled the sticker price for the baseball stadium they propose in Ybor City and hope to play in by 2023. $892 million! That’s about $200 million more than I expected, but I guess it’s roughly in […]

Guest AuthorJuly 10, 2018

The Trump administration’s refusal to defend the pre-existing condition exclusion and the ACA provision that insurance companies cannot charge more based on a person’s health status, makes you realize once what is at stake. In February, 20 state attorneys general, including Florida, filed suit in the U.S. District Court of Northern Texas, claiming that when […]

Peter SchorschJuly 10, 2018

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Daniel McAuliffe, Jim Rosica, and Drew Wilson. During his month as a candidate for Florida Governor, Jeff Greene has been a man of few words. But when he does speak up, he can cut deep. Greene wasn’t particularly vicious when he laid into […]

Joe HendersonJuly 10, 2018

When you own the last cigar factory in the Cigar City, and you’re fighting the Food and Drug Administration over regulations that could put the company out of business, you take victories where you can get them. That’s what Eric Newman, president of Tampa’s J.C. Newman Cigar Company, is doing today. He won a skirmish […]

Peter SchorschJuly 9, 2018

Last Call — A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics. First Shot Tampa Bay-based radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge settled a more than 2 ½-year-old federal lawsuit brought by a company that does radio ratings. The case, filed by Nielsen Audio, was reported settled Friday after mediation last Monday, court dockets […]

Guest AuthorJuly 9, 2018

This cycle, our firm has worked with dozens of Republican campaigns from Cabinet positions to Congress. One advantage of our workload has been an opportunity to see the results of dozens of polls and focus groups conducted by several national and Florida-based research firms. Without sharing specifics on data, campaigns or researchers, I want to […]

Emails & Opinions

Joe Henderson: Ken Hagan’s likely pitch for Rays stadium? It’s an investment

Rays’ stadium dream reveal a reminder that team’s politics are still minor-league

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 7.11.18

Last Call for 7.10.18 — A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics

Joe Henderson: Cost of Rays new stadium: $892 million! Yikes

Louisa McQueeney: We have to protect ACA, pre-existing condition fix

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics – 7.10.18

Joe Henderson: Newman Cigar gets reprieve, but it’s only temporary

Last Call for 7.9.18 — A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics

Joe Clements: The ‘big picture’ predictions on Election 2018