Peter SchorschSeptember 7, 2017
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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics.
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Peter SchorschSeptember 7, 2017Peter SchorschSeptember 6, 2017
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Last Call – A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics. First Shot We’re considering an early down arrow this week for Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, whose office’s Twitter account tweeted this morning that IDs would be checked at county storm shelters to keep out sex offenders and people with arrest warrants. […]
Joe HendersonSeptember 6, 2017
5min172
Floridians generally are a cocky bunch when it comes to hurricanes. A lot of people take the batteries-and-beer approach to these things: make sure you have plenty of both. Fill up the propane tank on the grill, fill the cooler with ice, and ride it out. Not this time. In 45 years of living in […]
Guest AuthorSeptember 6, 2017
4min235
Each day it becomes more and more apparent that opioid addiction and trafficking are plaguing Florida. According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, five out of the nine types of drugs that caused the most deaths in 2015 were ones that fall within the category of opioids. Two years later, we are seeing the […]
Peter SchorschSeptember 6, 20171min229
Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics.
Peter SchorschSeptember 5, 201713min158
Last Call – A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics. First Shots The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is releasing water from Lake Okeechobee in preparation for Hurricane Irma’s expected arrival in the state this weekend. Spokesman John Campbell said Tuesday the plan is to drain the lake for three days to […]
Guest AuthorSeptember 5, 2017
5min244
Our Florida elected legislators are coming back to Tallahassee this month to begin deliberating the public’s business. In legislative committee meetings, they will start deciding which issues will become priorities for the official 60-day 2018 legislative session that begins in January. One question all citizens should be asking our lawmakers: Will they once again blatantly […]
Joe HendersonSeptember 5, 2017
4min202
My Republican friends (yes, I have them) loathe being called the party of mean people, and I completely understand why they feel that way. What some see as mean, others see as principled. That’s particularly true with programs like Medicaid expansion in Florida, which many Republicans say costs too much and doesn’t work well enough. […]
Peter SchorschSeptember 5, 2017
1min259
Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Joe Henderson, Mitch Perry and Jim Rosica.
Joe HendersonSeptember 4, 2017
1min231
I guess I should be scared that North Korea wants to vaporize us, but just now watching a nasty lady named Irma churn her way through the Atlantic, maybe toward us, has priority on my freak-out list. I fear for the wonderful U.S. Virgin Islands, where I just visited about six weeks ago. They appear […]