Emails & Opinions

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 […]

Mitch PerryDecember 2, 2016

Rick Kriseman’s appointment of former WTFS weatherman Bill Logan to serve in the newly created position of communications director for the public works department is getting (predictably) negative reviews in the Pinellas County GOP world, who think it is more “big government” from the Democratic-leaning administration. It naturally fuels speculation about who will the Pinellas County Republican prop up […]

Florence SnyderDecember 1, 2016

Prisoners are rioting on a regular basis at the Franklin Correctional Institution, and taxpayers will join in soon if the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) doesn’t stop using public funds like cheap toilet paper. It’s been three years since three prison investigators who were doing the jobs we pay them to do confirmed cover-ups of inmate abuse […]

Martin DyckmanDecember 1, 2016

Aiming to regain some relevance in the Republican Party, Jeb Bush argues that it should show voters that it stands “for a few a big ideas” rather than only for things to vote against. Regrettably, four specific ideas that he proposed in a Nov. 24 Wall Street Journal op-ed are not simply big but bad. […]

Emails & Opinions

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

Mitch Perry Report for 12.2.16 – The Rock in 2024?

Reasons for taxpayers to join prisoners and riot @DOC

Martin Dyckman: On Jeb Bush’s relevance