Emails & Opinions

Peter SchorschSeptember 6, 2016

It is the difference between the executive and the legislative. The former is about the buck stopping here. The latter is about forming a committee to explore when would be best to meet to address the problem. It’s about management style. With a political career that included time on St. Petersburg’s City Council and as a […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 6, 2016

One week ago today, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, City Council President Lori Boyer, and a myriad of other city leaders lifted glasses of champagne, toasting the rousing mandate behind County Referendum 1 — the so-called “pension tax,” a one-half cent sales surtax which kicks in just as soon as the current one-half cent tax sunsets. […]

Blake DowlingSeptember 6, 2016

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Hermine rocked Tallahassee in a big way. Florida’s capital city is still reeling with thousands of businesses and homes without power. I awoke Friday morning at 6 a.m. to a scene from the set of “The Walking Dead.” My home had no power. As I attempted to leave, several downed trees were blocking the driveway. […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 6, 2016

My biggest fear of an approaching major storm living here in Tampa is losing electricity, with Florida still in full summer mode here in early September. That’s exactly what happened beginning last Friday in Tallahassee, and there were still some residential homes in North Florida as of yesterday still without power. Back here in Tampa, Hillary Clinton […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 6, 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. THE SUMMER OF SCOTT To say Florida has had a tough summer may be an understatement. A deadly attack on an Orlando nightclub. Zika. And now a hurricane. The turbulent summer thrust […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 5, 2016

The mayor of Tallahassee on Sunday said he was “never aware” of a formal offer by Florida Power & Light to aid in the city-owned utility’s effort to restore power to thousands of residents impacted by Hurricane Hermine. Andrew Gillum‘s acknowledgement is a stunning development in a series of back-and-forths between city officials, the governor’s office and […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 4, 2016

With tens of thousands of Tallahassee-area residents still without electricity two days after Hurricane Hermine struck the Florida Panhandle, the executive director of the Florida Municipal Electric Association confirmed that help from Florida Power & Light was turned down after sources inside two power companies told FloridaPolitics.com offers of assistance to the City of Tallahassee were rebuffed. Tallahassee Mayor […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 3, 2016

Disasters sometimes aren’t real until they happen to you—or someone you know. While Tallahasseeans waited for Hurricane Hermine to blow over Thursday night, veteran Capitol Press Corps reporter Dara Kam was on bucket brigade. A tree tumbled down on her property, falling at rest over her pool and on the back of her house. A […]

Joe HendersonSeptember 2, 2016

I love a good campaign slogan. It can be the key to victory, as we saw with Barack Obama’s “Hope and Change” and George W. Bush’s “Compassionate Conservative” pitch. And then there is Marco Rubio, Florida’s reluctant U.S. senator who is running, sort of, for re-election to an office he doesn’t appear to completely embrace. […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 2, 2016

There are lots of reasons people don’t like politics; this is one of them. Tim Canova refused to concede his congressional bid, telling reporters he would only “concede Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a corporate stooge.” Alan Grayson called Patrick Murphy a Republican. And after Marco Rubio trounced Carlos Beruff in the Republican Party primary, Beruff released an Op-Ed blasting Rubio. “With regard to young Mr. Rubio, in […]

Emails & Opinions
Cecilia Tavera-Webman (third from left) was among several Miami-Dade Democrats recognized as "Local Champions for Change" during the organization's annual Blue Gala on Sept. 21, 2024. Image via Miami-Dade Democratic Party/Instagram.

Remind us again what big project Rick Kriseman’s administration is good at managing?

Jacksonville Bold for 9.6.16 — Epilogue

Blake Dowling: Hermine rocks Tallahassee; scenes from the hurricane

Mitch Perry Report 9.6.16 — Enough nonsense about how ‘now’ the presidential election campaign season is beginning

Sunburn for 9.06.16 — The end of summer horribilis? Not yet

Tallahassee mayor says he was ‘unaware’ of power company’s offer to send as many as 575 workers to help with power restoration

Power companies’ offers of help to restore power in Tallahassee have been rebuffed

Takeaways from Tallahassee – No calm after this storm

Joe Henderson: Marco Rubio’s 2016 slogan — ‘Maybe I’ll stay. Maybe I won’t.’

Add nice guy Jim Waldman to list of ‘sore losers,’ while Ritch Workman keeps it classy