Emails & Opinions

Joe HendersonSeptember 12, 2016

There was an interesting news release Monday on the Florida Department of Health website. The agency issued a lengthy rebuttal to a Miami Herald report last month that its data on the state’s Zika problem was wrong, late or both. “This story is misleading and the claims made in it are inaccurate,” the agency said. […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 12, 2016

Stealing elections, even presidential ones, is an American political tradition dating back to the beginning of our nation. Think about those hanging chads in Florida, or Mayor Daley stuffing the ballot box in Chicago for JFK. But stuffing the ballot box is about to be taken to a new level in the race for the […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 12, 2016

Good Monday morning to you all. While the U.S. media will be focused intently on Hillary Clinton‘s health, there’s another issue taking place today that deserves close observation — the tentative truce between the warring factions that’s supposed to happen in Syria tonight at sundown. The truce was announced last last week between Russia and the U.S., and […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 11, 2016

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” — Martin Luther King Jr. Call it shades of Angela Davis. As the “The Star-Spangled Banner” rang out, Colin Kaepernick took a knee on the […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 10, 2016

It’s not the natural disaster, but the PR uses of it that make one’s political fortunes rise—or fall. Gov. Rick Scott’s press shop stole a page from former Gov. Bob Graham‘s playbook, as if to say, “You want to see a ‘work day?’ Here’s a work day.” They shook him like a Polaroid picture, showing the former […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 9, 2016

Last week, the Senate again blocked $1.1 billion in desperately needed funding to help research, prevent, and fight the spread of the Zika virus — all for political reasons. The last time I checked, members of Congress are sent to Washington with the duty to protect the American people, not play political games with their […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 9, 2016

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Lloyd Dunkelberger and Jim Rosica. HILLARY CLINTON, DONALD TRUMP TIED IN FLORIDA Clinton and Trump are in tied in Florida, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday. The poll shows the two candidates dead […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 9, 2016

Good morning, and welcome to the upcoming 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, which will be observed in America at the same time the National Football League kicks off its regular season on Sunday. Technically the season began last night, with a rematch of Super Bowl 50 in Denver, where the Broncos defeated Cam […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 9, 2016

FloridaPolitics.com spent plenty of time Wednesday at the Jacksonville federal courthouse; a pair of hearings related to counsel were held in the One Door for Education trial. There are, of course, two defendants: Congresswoman Corrine Brown and her chief of staff, Ronnie Simmons. Between them, they face 24 counts — 22 for Brown, 18 for […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 8, 2016

The Gainesville Sun is reporting on Christopher Mark Smith, a genuinely evil sicko. Smith, it turns out, was apparently repeatedly sexually molesting a very young girl; he had been doing so for years. This creep was also trying to get the 11-year old girl to perform a pornographic live-feed video. For that alone, Dante will […]

Joe Henderson: Cutting through the maze of political blame over Zika

Steven Kurlander: Redefining a political hack: The dangerous obsolescence of the electoral process

Mitch Perry Report for 9.12.16 — Will this Syrian ceasefire hold?

Darryl E. Owens: ‘Star Spangled’ outrage blunts Colin Kaepernick’s patriotic message

Takeaways from Tallahassee — We’re all out of storm metaphors

Dennis Ross: Put political agenda aside, Congress must pass Zika funding now

Sunburn for 9.9.16 — Sixty days out and it’s all tied in Florida

Mitch Perry Report for 9.9.16 — Will we see more NFL protests on 9/11?

Jacksonville Bold for 9.9.16 – Courtroom drama

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