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Peter SchorschMarch 6, 2018

Last week, Sunshine State News, the right-leaning news website covering Florida politics, celebrated its eighth anniversary. In the brutal economy of journalism, that’s no small feat. Sunshine State News has been around longer than Florida Politics or POLITICO Florida. And it’s maintained a presence in Tallahassee when other legacy media outlets, such as the Palm […]

Ryan RayMarch 8, 2015

Jon C. Moyle, an attorney for Holly Moseley, has just fired a shot across the bow of blogger Jacob Engels and Sunshine State News (SSN). Moyle issued a strongly worded missive to the managing editor of the conservative media outlet regarding a column attacking Moseley, who is executive director of Charlotte’s Web advocacy group Realm of Care. Writing in SSN, […]

Ryan RayMarch 8, 2015

Jon C. Moyle, an attorney for Holly Moseley, has just fired a shot across the bow of blogger Jacob Engels and Sunshine State News (SSN). Moyle issued a strongly worded missive to the managing editor of the conservative media outlet regarding a column attacking Moseley, who is executive director of Charlotte’s Web advocacy group Realm of Care. Writing in SSN, […]

Peter SchorschJanuary 30, 2015

There are approximately 500 million tweets each day, according to InternetStatsLive.com. That means that, already this year, there have been more than 15 billion (with a “B”) of those 140-character-or-less messages broadcast. Of all those messages, I’m willing to bet that few have been as snarky as the one sent by Sunshine State News’ Nancy […]

Peter SchorschOctober 29, 2013

By coincidence, the two most recommended articles on the New York Times website as of Sunday afternoon were a pair of very different stories about the seemingly never-ending effort to expand gaming in Florida. The first was about the trial of Anthony Ferrari, a former owner of a Miami Beach security company who had ties to the Gambino crime family […]

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Charlotte’s Web rivals slug it out in the press

Charlotte's Web rivals slug it out in the press

Nancy Smith’s very unnecessary tweet

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