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Staff ReportsNovember 6, 2016

The New York Times‘ website is dropping its paywall through the election. Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Editorial Page Editor James Bennet announced the move Sunday in an email to readers. “We believe that everyone, without exception, deserves a deeper understanding of the candidates, the issues and the results of this unprecedented election,” they wrote. “So […]

Bob SparksNovember 2, 2016

Donald Trump may be on his way to winning Florida. Is that really possible? Of the seven polls taken in the past week, Trump leads in three surveys, each by four points. Hillary Clinton leads in three of them, each by one point. In what may be another ominous development for Democrats, Florida is into […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 30, 2016

Two polls released Sunday show there is a very good chance Florida could choose Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton on Election Day. A NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll of 990 likely voters, conducted Oct. 25-26, shows Clinton up by just one point over Trump. Clinton comes in with 45 percent, while Trump gets 44 percent. Third party candidates […]

Staff ReportsOctober 22, 2016

The New York Times is weighing in on Florida’s U.S. Senate race. The Times encouraged Floridians to support Rep. Patrick Murphy in an editorial released Saturday. The editorial backing Murphy over Sen. Marco Rubio comes just days before in-person early voting begins in more than four dozen Florida counties. “Mr. Murphy’s positions on climate change […]

Mitch PerryAugust 15, 2016

Seizing on an issue he believes could help him in his primary election later this month, Florida Congressional District 23 candidate Tim Canova is again attacking Debbie Wasserman Schultz for her support of the Iranian nuclear deal finalized in 2015 — and now he’s bringing up a controversial interview made by an Obama Defense Department official to further […]

Phil AmmannJune 6, 2016

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Three top staffers in Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign are opening a new consulting firm in response to the Donald Trump phenomenon. Jim Rutenberg of The New York Times reports Terry Sullivan, along with former Rubio communications adviser Alex Conant and Rubio lawyer Will Holley launched Firehouse Strategies, based on the idea that Trump has “rewritten the […]

Associated PressMay 23, 2016

Democrat Alan Grayson has been dubbed “Angry Alan” by his Senate opponent, compared to Republican Donald Trump for his penchant for earning headlines with his mouth and has become the whipping post for some in the Washington party establishment who hope he loses Florida’s primary. But he said things could be worse. “At least they’re […]

Peter SchorschMay 22, 2016

Paul Tash, the chairman and CEO of The Tampa Bay Times, comes away as just another cold-hearted executive in a New York Times story about the sale and shuttering of the Tampa Tribune. “Bad things have to happen for good things to happen,” Tash says in response to criticism that the Poynter Institute-owned newspaper was “avaricious” regarding its […]

Peter SchorschApril 21, 2016

A former Washington law firm and one of its top partners did not violate Florida’s lobbying laws when appealing to the state attorney general, Pam Bondi, and her staff on behalf of corporate clients, the Florida Commission on Ethics has concluded after a 16-month investigation, reports the New York Times. The finding came even though an outside lawyer […]

Mitch PerryApril 7, 2016

Gay Talese is one of the great American reporters of our time. Now 84, Talese was considered part of the New Journalism that took the country by storm in the 1960s. I’m going to write about his new book in a moment, but I confess that I’m a little late to the party regarding the […]

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New York Times is free online through the election

Is Donald Trump on his way to winning Florida?

Two new Florida polls show Donald Trump closing strong

The New York Times backs Patrick Murphy for U.S. Senate

Tim Canova goes after Debbie Wasserman Schultz again on her support for Iranian nuclear deal

Former Marco Rubio staffers Terry Sullivan, Alex Conant launch consulting firm

Alan Grayson: At least they’re not calling me Hitler

Paul Tash is one cold-hearted dude and other thoughts on the New York Times story about the Tampa Trib sale

Pam Bondi would not talk to Florida ethics investigators

Mitch Perry Report 4.7.16 — Gay Talese, meet Twitter