Staff ReportsNovember 13, 2023
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'It can often be really difficult to assess where you are in life.'
Tag: Dara Kam
Staff ReportsNovember 13, 2023
Rosanne DunkelbergerNovember 27, 2022
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'Willie was an exceptional, one-of-a-kind cat.'
Tristan WoodMarch 30, 2022
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'The sausage is cooked and made and curdled and fried long before a bill ever even pops up.'
Peter SchorschApril 20, 2018
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If you were expecting to read SUNBURN as you usually do on a weekday morning, this isn’t it. Nor will Takeaways from Tallahassee, our weekend newsletter, appear in your inbox Saturday. Both of those products are “going dark,” as they say, today and tomorrow as a message to the four leading Democratic candidates for Florida […]
Florence SnyderJuly 11, 2016
6min500
Editor’s note: Within 24 hours of his layoff, Lloyd Dunkelberger has joined FloridaPolitics.com as a contributor. *** There was yet another round of layoffs last week at Florida newspapers. Men and women with, collectively, hundreds of years of priceless institutional memory and high-functioning moral compasses were unceremoniously kicked to the curb. They will be replaced, […]
Ryan RayApril 1, 2016
9min198
Members of the Florida Capitol Press Corps broke down the 2016 Legislative Session at the Capital City Tiger Bay Club’s April meeting on Friday, April Fool’s Day. Reporters Gary Fineout of the Associated Press, Tia Mitchell of the Florida Times-Union, Bill Cotterell of the Tallahassee Democrat, Matt Dixon of POLITICO Florida, and Dara Kam of News Service of Florida answered questions posed by PR pro […]
Mitch PerryOctober 12, 2015
7min392
For several years, it’s been a given that Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn would try to take his brand of leadership to a new level in 2018 by seeking the Democratic nomination for governor. Facing just token opposition in his re-election bid, Buckhorn won with nearly 96 percent of the vote in March, setting himself up […]
James CallMay 6, 2015
8min185
Expect Florida lawmakers to spend a long hot summer in Tallahassee. Plus, they will be at the state Capitol for a pretty contentious fall as well. And they just might, with a little luck, be able to fit in a holiday break before returning for the 2016 Legislative Session in January. That’s the consensus of a handful […]
Peter SchorschJanuary 28, 2015
6min256
Each time this year, there are nominees for awards that leave many scratching their heads. This is true whether it be the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, or The Washington Post‘s list of best state-based political reporters. Yesterday, The Fix’s Chris Cillizza unveiled his list of the best “scribes covering state and local politics. They rarely get the […]
Guest AuthorOctober 21, 20146min191
Answering questions is as unspeakable to Rick Scott as eating pork is to someone who keeps kosher. The governor treats talking with the press and public as trayf (Yiddish for tainted food), as though he would be putting himself at risk for the political equivalent of trichinosis. Ask him anything. And, as if unable to […]