Emails & Opinions

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. […]

Peter SchorschDecember 1, 2016

This Thanksgiving, a Leon County judge gave trial lawyers one more reason to be thankful. But that may not last long. On Nov. 23 – just one day before Thanksgiving — Circuit Judge Karen Gievers put the brakes on a 14.5 percent workers’ compensation rate increase, scheduled to go into effect Dec. 1. Gievers ruled […]

Mitch PerryDecember 1, 2016

Florida lawmakers have been filing bills this week for the 2017 Legislative Session, and one of the most provocative ones so far is an immigration-related issue from Sarasota Republican Sen. Greg Steube. As initially reported by the Tampa Bay Times Claire McNeill, Steube would repeal the Jack Latvala-sponsored bill that waives out-of-state fees for undocumented Florida high school students. “It is certainly […]

Blake DowlingDecember 1, 2016

I think I have downloaded more apps in the past five years than anyone in the southern United States. When the kids were younger, new game? Done. Five a day, we would play incessantly, then delete. The gaming app 100 Balls took over two weeks of our life; Stack took a few weeks. Jet Pack […]

Joe HendersonNovember 30, 2016

We probably will never know what happened inside Trump Tower recently when Florida Gov. Rick Scott met with the president-elect. It wouldn’t surprise me, though, if they talked about jobs the entire time. I mention this because Donald Trump gave a preview this week of what he hopes are coming attractions. He announced that Carrier, […]

Emails & Opinions

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

Workers comp rate hike ruling gives trial lawyers reason to cheer. But how long will it last?

Mitch Perry Report for 12.1.16 — What does Rick Scott and rest of Legislature do with bill repealing in-state tuition rates for the undocumented?

Blake Dowling: Apps for everything

Joe Henderson: What Democrats missed about Donald Trump, Rick Scott — it’s about jobs