Emails & Opinions

Peter SchorschDecember 7, 2016

On Tuesday, Luis Viera won a runoff election to represent northern Tampa on the City Council. Viera’s final margin of victory over Jim Davison was 65 votes (2,588 to 2,523) or just over one percent. Davison finished first in the primary campaign, was endorsed by two of the other five candidates in that election, and outspent […]

Mitch PerryDecember 7, 2016

“Image is everything” that great philosopher, Andre Agassi, once said in a series of television ads for Canon in the early 1990’s. Though a bit of an exaggeration, there’s no question that the image of the Hillsborough County Democratic Executive Committee has taken a significant body blow following its reorganization meeting on Monday night. To recap: Party Chair Ione Townsend concluded that the party’s by-laws […]

Peter SchorschDecember 7, 2016

Florida voters approved medical marijuana with 71 percent of the vote on Election Day, and a new report commissioned by Florida for Care shows just how widespread support for the measure was in every corner of the state. According to the TLE Analytics report, Amendment 2 reached the 60 percent threshold in each of Florida’s […]

Martin DyckmanDecember 7, 2016

So Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring out of a Northwest Washington restaurant. Imagine that. Actually, someone did. The fake “news” then raced around the internet like chicken pox through a kindergarten. But who could possibly believe such trash? Actually, people did. The restaurant and its neighbors were besieged with death threats. And […]

Guest AuthorDecember 6, 2016

Fidel Castro is dead. Thousands of Cubans, many of whom lived under Castro’s regime, gathered in the streets of Miami to celebrate his death. For them, his passing marked the symbolic end of a reign of terror, a nightmare that destroyed thousands of lives and forced a million Cubans to leave their homes and seek […]

Peter SchorschDecember 6, 2016

On Friday, during a Jacksonville City Council meeting on the possibility of civilian review boards, conversation spilled over into a discussion of something even more central: the nature of the consolidated city itself. Consolidation — now nearly a half-century old — failed to deliver on all expectations of Jacksonville’s underserved communities. “Some promises have not […]

Peter SchorschDecember 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. DRIVING THE DAY – PRESIDENT OBAMA TO VISIT ACTIVE MILITARY IN FLORIDA via The Associated Press – Obama is coming to Florida in the final weeks of his presidency … the president will meet with active duty service members […]

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” […]

Emails & Opinions

St. Pete Polls nails another prediction with Tampa City Council runoff election

Mitch Perry Report for 12.7.16 – The Hillsborough County DEC melts down

Medical marijuana’s big Florida win, as voters ‘writ large’ said yes

Martin Dyckman: Spreading fake news, a dangerous bell that can’t be unrung

Valerio Martinelli: Cubans know ideas matter

Jacksonville Bold for 12.06.16 — Consolidation Conundrum

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics – 12.6.16

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