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At FSU: Ask a Loaded Question, Get an Unexpected Answer

Submitted by Anonymous on February 10, 2012 - 7:03pm

I'm sure the audience for a comment about this week's FSU elections would be pretty small statewide, but there was an item that should be of interest.

On the ballot was a question clearly designed to get the answer its writers wanted. Check it out:

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Weekly Roundup: Halfway Through, Redistricting's Done

Jim Saunders News Service of Florida

February 9, 2012 - 6:00pm

The late Senate President Jim King used to talk about trying to get everyone together to sing "Kumbaya.''

The Capitol this week didn't exactly teem with lawmakers holding hands and belting out a tune.

The House passed a $69.2 billion budget Thursday along straight party lines, with Republicans saying it was a responsible plan in tight times and Democrats saying it was, well, "half-witted.''

A short time later, the Senate gave final approval to redistricting maps -- only to be greeted immediately by a Democratic Party-backed legal challenge.

Disappointment

February 10, 2012 - 6:00pm

Fox Business Network in Florida with Exclusive on JPM Morgan Expansion

Jim Turner

February 9, 2012 - 6:00pm

Fox Business Network will be rolling through Florida this weekend with exclusive access to JPMorgan Chase & Co.s Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon, as the executive tours the financial institutions expanding Florida footprint.

FBN anchor Melissa Francis is spending Sunday and Monday traveling with Dimon and other JPMorgan Chase officials as they travel by bus, visiting branches that have been part of the banks plan to open 50 new Florida locations this year.

SI Swimsuit Edition to Highlight Gulf Coast Recovery from BP Spill

Submitted by Anonymous on February 10, 2012 - 4:34pm

Some of the background scenery in this year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition -- due out on Tuesday -- might look familiar to Big Bend residents.

One of the five locations the magazine's editors chose to shoot the annual edition -- its most popular, for some reason -- was the St. George barrier island near Apalachicola, USA Today reported Friday.

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Sugar Industry Fires Back at 'Gang Green' Over Everglades

Kenric Ward

February 9, 2012 - 6:00pm

The environmentalists are coming for Big Sugar, again.

Unslaked by the billions of dollars of public and private money poured into Everglades restoration, billionaire environmentalist Paul Tudor Jones wants to wring more cash out of Florida's sugar growers.

At an Everglades Foundation forum in Tallahassee last month, Jones darkly compared pollution leaching from Everglades Agricultural Area to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Sugar producers resent the analogy, and flatly reject it.

The Power of Losing

Kathleen Parker

February 10, 2012 - 6:00pm

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney's recent losses to Rick Santorum in Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota revealed a truism that Romney might want to study -- but not too much!

Birth-Control 'Compromise': Not Everyone Is Buying It

Submitted by Anonymous on February 10, 2012 - 3:38pm

The Daily Caller's Neil Munro has an interesting article about Obama's speech Friday announcing religious organizations -- such as the Catholic Church -- will not have to provide coverage for sterilization and other birth-control measures that violate their beliefs.

The gist of it is, who qualifies as a "religious" organization?

The article essentially boils down to this:

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Denise Grimsley's Balancing Act

Jim Turner

February 9, 2012 - 6:00pm

All of a sudden Denise Grimsley finds herself smack in the middle of a tug-of-war between House and Senate -- maneuvering the budget -- the thing that morphs into the annual showdown to decide which is the stronger chamber.

The head of the House budget talks is walking a tightrope. She has a job to do now, but she wants to be accepted as one of the gang and by her potential boss in the Senate next year.

Is she worried? Not in the slightest, says the Sebring Republican.

John Mica vs. Sandy Adams: A 'Barnburner' in CD 7

Kenric Ward

February 9, 2012 - 6:00pm

The 7th Congressional District primary battle pitting Republican Reps. Sandy Adams and John Mica is starting out as a contest of fire and ice.

The freshman Adams turned a flamethrower on Mica Thursday, saying, "I don't believe in backing down because someone tries to bully me out of a race."

Mica, a 10-term congressman, coolly deflected the broadside before formally announcing his campaign for CD 7, centered mainly in Seminole, Orange and southern Volusia counties.

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