After 10 Glorious Years, Sunshine State News and I Are Passing the Baton
You probably can't imagine how much fun I've had at Sunshine State News over the last 10 years. I don't think anybody could.
November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
Politics
Columns
NEW YORK -- Sometimes when everyone is shouting, only a whisper can be heard.
Jimmy Carter is out with his 26th book, so that means he is on his 26th round of slavish liberal-media interviews hailing him as a genius and a peacemaker. No wonder we're so tired of him.
"Blacks for Gray, Whites for Fenty," ran the nuanced headline on page one of the Washington Examiner.
For more than 200 years, the political left has been coming up with reasons why criminals should not be punished as much, or at all. The latest gambit in Missouri is providing judges with the costs of incarcerating the criminals they sentence.
My subject today is the civil war raging in one of our great political parties, as highlighted in recent primary elections.
Both the House and Senate will be conducting political gamesmanship this week, the like of which hasnt been seen in recent political history. It will play out like this.
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By Nancy Smith
Adam Putnam-for-Governor hopefuls probably should wrap it up for this cycle. The popular Republican secretary of agriculture and consumer services quietly filed for reelection on Monday.
Putnam already has attracted Democratic opposition -- Thad Hamilton, who served on the Broward Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors.
By Nancy Smith
Allison McCoy, senior vice president of marketing for Spectrum Gaming Group, described her company's mission at the Florida Gaming Congress in February. She told Sunshine State News, "Our job is to tell people not what they want to hear but what they need to know."
Now Spectrum will be telling Florida what it needs to know about its gaming future -- officially.
By Kevin Derby
Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, one of the Sunshine State's most staunchly conservative legislators, has endorsed Northwest Florida Tea Party presidentMike Hill for state representative in the District 2 Special Election.
"Mike Hill has the core convictions needed to meet the moral imperative we have to protect faith, family, freedom, and opportunity for the next generation," Baxley said in a statement Tuesday announcing his endorsement. "We need him in the Florida House."
By Nancy Smith
Adam Johnson, son-in-law of Rep. Gayle Harrell, R-Port St. Lucie, has been awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for "The Orphan Master's Son," a novel about North Korea.
By Nancy Smith
Florida Gov. Rick Scott issued a statement Monday following the marathon finish-line bombings in Boston:
"Our hearts and prayers go out to the people of Boston. I've asked the Florida Division of Emergency Management to be on standby to provide any assistance needed to help first responders on the ground in Boston.The Florida Department of Law Enforcement also stands ready to provide any support services needed."
By Kevin Derby
The Florida Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Monday a bill requiring doctors to provide medical care to infants born alive during botched abortion procedures.
SB 1636 (Infants Born Alive), sponsored by Sen. Anitere Flores, R-Miami, now makes its way to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
The House counterpart, Rep. Cary Pigman's HB 1129, is on its second reading before that chamber.
By Nancy Smith
Flamboyant Democrat Alan Grayson took to the airwaves in 2010 to knock Grover Norquist all over the neighborhood for his Taxpayer Protection Pledge, but now look: Grayson is teaming with a left-wing compadre in California, Mark Takano, to sign up members of Congress on an Norquist-imitation pledge of their own.
By Nancy Smith
Gov. Rick Scott signed into law 19 bills on Wednesday. The governor's office provided the following list:
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Tallahassee civil litigator Brian Hayden has been appointed to the Leon County Development Support and Environmental Management Citizens User Group, which makes recommendations to county commissioners about growth management measures and issues concerning planning, development review and environmental compliance.
Hayden, of Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell, has represented clients before the Florida Commission on Ethics and the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings. He will now join the 14-member county committee.
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Florida Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, Thursday explained the $74.3 billion state budget that was unanimously passed out of the chamber on Wednesday.
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