Emails & Opinions

Phil AmmannDecember 6, 2016

In a pair of Context Florida columns titled, “The Shame of Florida,” Darryl Paulson has documented how Florida infamously leads the nation in the number of people—1.7-million—who are permanently barred from voting as ex-felons regardless of whether they are good citizens now. In Florida, as in Virginia, Alabama, Tennessee and other former Confederate states, these […]

Mitch PerryDecember 6, 2016

One of my favorite sections of Bernie Sanders interview with Matt Taibbi in the current Rolling Stone is when the curmudgeonly Vermont Senator bitches about the corporate establishment media. “They live in a bubble, talk about their world, worry about who’s going to be running 18 years from now for office,” he says. “Meanwhile, people can’t […]

Joe HendersonDecember 5, 2016

On Sunday afternoon, a man carrying an AR-15 assault rifle walked into a popular pizza place in northwest Washington D.C. and began shooting. No one was hurt, thank goodness and the gunman was arrested. What he said after being taken away, though, should be a warning to us all. He said he came to “self-investigate” […]

Florence SnyderDecember 5, 2016

It’s #LoveMyNewspaper Day, and The Independent Florida Alligator has certainly earned a hug from feminists, and from men who like their wives, daughters, mothers and sisters. Molly Vossler, who covers the Nothing Ever Changes Around Here beat for The Alligator, has updated the depressing and open secret that “Men dominate UF’s list of highest-paid faculty.” […]

Steve SchaleDecember 5, 2016

It is time for one last big data piece on Florida 2016. For about 18 hours a day over 2+ weeks, I found myself living and breathing early voting data. So now that all the data have been reported from counties, I wanted to look back at some assumptions, and compare them to the actual […]

Mitch PerryDecember 5, 2016

Among the nuggets of information procured by watching the Sunday morning public affairs shows was that David Petraeus was one of the 93 million Americans who didn’t vote for president last month. “I don’t vote,” the retired four-star Army general told George Stephanopolous in ABC’s This Week when asked who he backed for president. “So that’s an easy answer. […]

Peter SchorschDecember 5, 2016

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry and Jim Rosica. FIRST IN SUNBURN – JEB BUSH ALIGNS WITH BUCHANAN INGERSOLL & ROONEY AS STRATEGIC CONSULTANT Jeb Bush is bringing his star power to the Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney in what is being described as a […]

Florence SnyderDecember 5, 2016

Too many public officials feel entitled to cut to the front of every line. This week, one of them had the misfortune of being caught on tape saying so. Daytona Beach City Commissioner Dannette Henry was close enough to see the shooting and beating of a young man as it was unfolding in her neighborhood […]

Peter SchorschDecember 3, 2016

And so this is Christmas: Gov. Rick Scott‘s early gift to state law enforcement is a proposed 5 percent pay raise in the 2017-18 budget. If he can afford it. Which nobody knows yet. So right now, the raise is like a pretty gift box that’s empty. Still, the raise “would be a ‘thank you’ to law […]

Peter SchorschDecember 2, 2016

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry and Jim Rosica. EARLY HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES to the great Ron Book, who turns 64 on Saturday. Recently, we learned that even this Superman has to slow down at some point. But we know Ron will pull through as […]

Emails & Opinions

Martin Dyckman: End the ‘shame’ by restoring voting rights to ex-felons

Mitch Perry Report for 12.6.16 – “Run, Joe, Run” was so 2015, wasn’t it?

Joe Henderson: Not just papers; it’s #LoveMyWebsite day, too

One reason for women to #LoveMyStudentNewspaper

Steve Schale: Florida early vote, a retrospective

Mitch Perry Report for 12.5.16 – David Petraeus, another disaffected voter?

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics – 12.5.16

For media training, Mom’s the word

Takeaways from Tallahassee – Early Christmas presents

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics – 12.2.16