Blake DowlingJanuary 16, 2021
7min543
This year is starting off like no other, it’s grim on so many fronts, but there is also some hope.
Tag: Jim Rosica
Blake DowlingJanuary 16, 2021
Bob SparksNovember 9, 2017
6min354
What a year we’re having in Florida’s capital city. Just not in a good way. In April, we had the sad spectacle of Miami Republican Sen. Frank Artiles resigning from the Senate after uttering racial slurs in the direction of Jacksonville Democrat Audrey Gibson. Less than two weeks ago, incoming Senate Democratic Leader Jeff Clemens […]
Scott PowersMay 11, 2017
4min531
FloridaPolitics.com received three honors in the Society of Professional Journalists’ Green Eyeshade Awards, highlighting the best journalism of 2016 throughout 10 states of the southeast United States. Martin Dyckman received a second-place award for online serious commentary for his columns exploring the problems with Florida’s death penalty laws. Jim Rosica received a third-place award for […]
Joe HendersonDecember 12, 2016
6min208
In 2003, then-Gov. Jeb Bush punished reporters from the Tallahassee bureau of the Palm Beach Post by canceling their invitation to his year-end interview session. His staff cited the “unprofessional behavior” while dealing with some of Bush’s officials, but the paper suspected it was in retaliation for critical reporting on Bush’s pet school vouchers program. I’m betting […]
Peter SchorschSeptember 19, 2016
9min361
Walt Disney World is billed as “The Happiest Place on Earth” and any regular reader of this blog or any friend on Facebook knows how much I believe that. In fact, I believe that title extends to any place where Uncle Walt’s magic can be found, including the majestic Disney cruise ships. My family and I […]
Phil AmmannFebruary 14, 20165min256
About a quarter-century ago, a pack of Marlboro cigarettes sealed a friendship between the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Florida legal legend Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte. It was December 1991, during D’Alemberte’s tenure as American Bar Association president. Scalia had been on the bench about five years by then. He died Saturday at the age of 79. The two men […]
Peter SchorschDecember 8, 2015
2min258
“They do this at 8 o’clock at night?” That was the first thing an exasperated Jim Rosica, one of our state Capitol reporters, said to me once I got him on the telephone after news of Gov. Rick Scott reaching a deal with the Seminole Tribe of Florida hit the Twitterverse. Rosica and the rest of the […]
Jim RosicaNovember 30, 2015
3min523
Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, a 10-year veteran of the Naples Daily News, is leaving the paper to join Florida Politics’ growing lineup of writers. She will continue to write on regional and statewide politics and policy from her Southwest Florida base. “Jenna’s been on my must-read list since she began covering Florida politics,” said Peter Schorsch, publisher […]
Peter SchorschSeptember 23, 2015
5min1052
Like so many others, I am really worried about my friend Nick Iarossi, one of the founders of the lobbying firm Capital City Consulting. As Jim Rosica reported Tuesday, gambling giant Las Vegas Sands is abandoning its push for a destination casino resort in Florida. Part of thie move includes Sands canceling its contract with […]
Ryan RayJune 1, 2015
6min153
Health care committees in the House and Senate on Monday discussed the same proposal to expand health care access to the uninsured–SB 2A–in Florida. But it might not have sounded like it. In a “Tale of Two Cities”-esque tableau, the Senate discussed the bill for one hour before unanimously agreeing to pass it with sponsor […]