Scott PowersOctober 27, 2020
4min443
The Lincoln Project is buying placements with Cosmo, Elle, other magazines.
Tag: Rolling Stone
Scott PowersOctober 27, 2020
A.G. GancarskiNovember 14, 2018
7min307
Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum awaits the results of the machine recount in the race for Florida Governor against Republican Ron DeSantis. In what seems to be a strategic move, the Democrat bypassed in-state media in his first interview since rescinding his concession of the race. Gillum preferred instead to give quotes to Rolling Stone (the kind of move […]
Mitch PerryOctober 17, 2016
8min359
Retired General Stanley McChrystal said if the Islamic State could be effectively blown away tomorrow, the world’s problems in the Middle East would not be immediately solved. “There’s a temptation today to simplify things,” the retired Army general told a crowd of several hundred people who gathered to hear him speak at the Tampa Waterside Marriott Monday […]
Mitch PerryJanuary 11, 2016
5min306
Good morning, everyone. What a weekend it’s been. On Saturday, I saw “The Revenant,” the quasi-true story of Mountain Man Hugh Glass, who was part of an expedition attacked by Indians in 1823. He was nearly torn to pieces by a bear near present-day Lemmon, S.D., and left for dead by two companions. Then there […]
Mitch PerryJanuary 10, 2016
4min313
Marco Rubio disparaged Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn on Sunday, calling all of the attention on his just published interview in Rolling Stone this weekend with famed Mexican drug lord El Chapo “grotesque.” El Chapo, whose real name is Joaquin Guzman, was captured on Friday in Mexico, six months after a daring prison escape last July through a […]
Mitch PerrySeptember 11, 2015
8min198
So the field is set for the two GOP debates scheduled for next Wednesday night in Simi Valley – and they’re the exact same line-ups as were displayed in Cleveland last month, with two exceptions. One is that Carly Florina, who became the darling of the media following her impressive debate performance in the “Happy […]
Melissa RossApril 21, 2015
5min157
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) says it’s trying to assist Florida with its ongoing foreclosure woes, announcing $479,394 in grants to support 30 housing counseling organizations across the state. The funding is intended to provide information to help families and individuals with their housing needs and to prevent future foreclosures, according […]
Ryan RayApril 20, 2015
7min458
Doug Dodd and his friend “the Little General” aka Lance Barabas began like a lot of high school kids in Tampa and outlying Pasco County these days: At get-togethers after wrestling practice they would drink beer, smoke a little pot and maybe dabble in something harder. Hardly wholesome to be sure, but as Guy Lawson in Rolling Stone writes, […]
Diane RobertsDecember 10, 20147min220
And now the backlash: “Jackie,” the young woman at the center of the notorious Rolling Stone piece on rape at the University of Virginia, can’t keep her story straight. Jameis Winston’s accuser is a gold-digger aiming to shake him down in a civil suit. Lena Dunham, whose memoir details a not-really-consensual encounter with a fellow […]