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Peter SchorschSeptember 22, 2015

Before Augustus and Marc Antony and before Julius Caesar and Spartacus and everyone else you can barely remember from Latin class, there was Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a dictator who was a master of the eternal city a generation before all of that “Et tu, Brute” stuff. Sulla’s infamy is borne because he was the first Roman […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 22, 2015

Before Augustus and Marc Antony and before Julius Caesar and Spartacus and everyone else you can barely remember from Latin class, there was Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a dictator who was a master of the eternal city a generation before all of that “Et tu, Brute” stuff. Sulla’s infamy is borne because he was the first Roman […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 8, 2015

The Florida Association of Professional Lobbyists‘ 11th annual conference kicks off this week in Tampa. This year’s conference runs Wednesday-Friday at the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay on Bayport Drive. The rest of the three-day conference includes nearly a dozen topical breakout panels: Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know to Stay Out of Trouble Medical Marijuana: The Impact of the […]

Peter SchorschAugust 31, 2015

If you are the child of an extremely successful parent, you probably have things pretty good. Good for you. Chances are quite high that you likely have a fairly cush job (if you even work at all), a comfortable life and take advantage of all that your fortunate situation has handed you. Let’s face it; […]

Guest AuthorJune 25, 2015

Now the Special Session is finally over and the Legislature finally finished the budget they worked on long into the night. They handed it to the governor so he could have his way with it and put his pen to paper, signing it into law with one hand and slashing it with his veto pen […]

Florence SnyderMarch 8, 2015

In Casablanca, “Everybody goes to Rick’s” Cafe Americain. In Tallahassee, everybody goes to Andrew’s Capital Grill. Or Andrew goes to everybody, as he did last Monday night, personally attending to the feeding and watering of 1,200 of Associated Industries’ closest friends at its annual eve-of-session cocktail party. Andrew Reiss has been doing this since the […]

James CallMarch 6, 2015

At the end of the first week of the 2015 Legislative Session, the Capitol City’s newspaper printed an editorial cartoon that compared lobbyists to great white sharks. The cartoon asks which species pose a greater threat to Floridians; paid advocates or Jaws. Psychologists tell us we see what we know and what we know influences […]

Guest AuthorMarch 3, 2015

There was a report recently that the Democratic Party, which is coming off a huge midterm defeat in the recent congressional elections, is doing some soul-searching. The Democratic National Committee released a preliminary report from its “Democratic Victory Task Force” outlining a number of steps to improve the party’s branding, messaging and outreach. It seems […]

Daniel TilsonFebruary 25, 2015

I’ll never forget the Florida prison guard who started crying when I asked her about the challenges she faced on the job, not to mention from elected and other officials responsible for the state penal system. I visited with her family for a few hours in a sketchy Miami neighborhood, where she and her school […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 24, 2015

A lot of times what one sees at the state Capitol depends on one’s point of view. A spectator’s voter registration card can very well indicate whether he’s watching a war on public education or an attempt to improve students’ learning gains. It’s a bit like the adage about a glass of water. Every now […]

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