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I read Pushing Rope regularly, but don’t link to it so much because it deals mostly with national politics and I try to keep those posts to a minimum. I also assume folks who read this blog are also familiar with PR. However, if you are not familiar, let me recommend adding it to your regular [...] Tallahassee’s only daily newspaper, the Tallahassee Democrat, will move behind a pay-wall on July 1. “Today, we announce an historic change in how we do business“ The Democrat is owned by Gannett Company, Inc. Gannett has selected three newspapers to test out their new pay-only policy (“One of the others is St. George, UT. I’m not sure [...] Perfect. It’s Earth Day and we’re thrilled that in the last 40 years we’ve managed to stop the rivers from burning. (Yes, kids, pollution used to be so bad in this country that rivers caught fire.) “Cleveland’s main river used to periodically catch fire. On June 22, 1969, trash and an oil slick ignited. The [...] The South Florida Raging Grannies weigh in on the recent CBS advocacy ad kerfuffle. What does CBS stand for? Watch the video to find out. Or, check out the Women’s Media Center to learn more. Here’s more about the raging grannies from Wikipedia. The Florida Media Co-op is a grassroots (or entrepreneurial if you prefer) effort to coordinate advertising on local blogs around Florida. If you want to advertise on some Florida blogs, FMC provides a quick, one-stop-shopping sort of place so you don’t have to deal with each blog proprietor individually. If you want to try to generate [...] Florida Progressive Blog has this great post about the Palm Beach County Progressive Round Table meetings. “Almost fifty different progressive organizations with presence in Palm Beach County are invited to PRT quarterly meetings, where a representative from each group in attendance gets a strictly enforced five minutes of presentation time to update everyone else in attendance [...] I wish more movies were made in Florida. It seems like such a perfect place for year-round shoots. Why don’t more movies shoot here? Oh, yeah. The Lege cut the incentive program from $25 million to $5 million in February 2008. Let’s see, what were we getting for that $25 million? “Figures show the entertainment industry [...] I’ve read a handful of conservative bloggers complaining about the term “saved job,” and saw this from Limbaugh - “There’s no such thing as a saved job.” – Rush Limbaugh Here’s an example of 30 saved jobs from Florida - “The Clay County School Board voted Thursday to hire back about 30 elementary teachers whose 2009-10 positions were [...] You have to watch the flash-based slide show to see it, but The Beast ranks Lakeland-Winter Haven number 6 in their 10 Worst Dropout Cities. Don’t settle for mediocrity Lakeland, shoot for number 1! Here’s a theatrical commercial from 1951 about the awesomeness of visiting Coral Gables in your Chevrolet. Alex Pickett has a great post about street artist Jacob Christiano and his sidewalk chalk ad work for political campaigns. “Even if you don’t know who Jacob Christiano is, chances are you’ve seen his work: long poems carefully lettered in brightly colored chalk along St. Petersburg sidewalks. Or, more recently, Christiano’s work has appeared on the [...] Charlie Crist says it’s the power of prayer that’s keeping hurricanes from Florida. Crist noted that just before his election in 2006, Florida had been affected by a total of eight hurricanes in 2004 and 2005. “Do you know the last time it was we had a hurricane in Florida? It’s been awhile. In 2007, I took [...] I’ve been learning tonight about Smilin’ Jimmy Sullivan and Governor Fuller Warren. Warren was governor of Florida from 1949 to 1953. Wikipedia doesn’t have much to say about him, but offers this tremendous quote where comes out both for and against prohibition and anti-prohibition. “If you mean the demon drink that poisons the mind, pollutes the [...] Jill at Sticks of Fire notes that as of July 1, HOAs cannot disallow xeriscaping. “In an important show of support for Florida-Friendly gardeners everywhere, this new law states specifically that HOAs can no longer prohibit homeowners from applying Florida-Friendly landscaping! For instance, your HOA cannot fine you for a brown lawn when you’re just abiding [...] I was starting to wonder if we’d have ANY this year. Ana, first tropical storm of the season, could hit South Florida Thursday “South Florida sits in the middle of its the National Hurricane Center’s initial forecast track but, with the storm still more than 2,000 miles and perhaps five days away, the possibilities remain broad. It [...] Damon Weaver, who got some national attention for his interview of Joe Biden last October, finally gets to sit down with the President. Here’s more from the Sun-Sentinel. Bradenton, Gainesville, and Orlando all make the top ten meanest cities in the US for the way they treat their indigent populations. St. Petersburg comes in second. Boo. “Criminalizing homelessness is not only an inhumane way of approaching people who are poor and vulnerable, but is counterproductive in dealing with the problem of homelessness,” said Tulin Ozdeger, [...] Miami news anchor Charles Perez claims in this Daily Beast editorial that he was fired from his job because of his homosexuality. “My ex-employer will never admit this, but if the past decades have taught us anything, it is to be much more subtle about our prejudices. Getting rid of ‘the black guy’ or ‘the woman’ [...] Dinosaur Adventure Land founder Kent Hovind is serving ten years in prison for tax evasion and his creation science dinosaur park has just been seized by the feds because of nearly a half-million due in back taxes. “A ruling by U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers states that the nine properties that make up Dinosaur Adventure Land [...] Huh? I had no idea. Time Magazine reports that “the Sunshine State is now the country’s leader in indoor marijuana cultivation.” Not only that, but “the marijuana grown this way is … some of the highest level of highs [THC] on the market.” “Among the best tipsters, they say, are electricians paid big money by growers [...] (JBisMe is an occasional guest contributor to Re/Creating Tampa. Here she recounts her recent visit to see the American Idol stars in concert.) On account of my fascination with Adam Lambert, I did something very uncharacteristic for me: I attended the American Idol concert last night at the St. Pete Times Forum. My good friends JG and [...] The Herald-Tribune in Sarasota is running a tremendous work of journalism this week about unscrupulous real estate flippers. “Despite their role in one of Florida’s largest white-collar crime sprees, the vast majority of unscrupulous real estate flippers will never be prosecuted. Most Florida law enforcement agencies have done little to investigate property flip fraud. The [...] Most back issues of Weekly World News are available at Google Books. WWN, of course, was one of the greatest magazines EVER. Today’s shooting at the Holocaust Museum should remind us that Florida, and especially the I-4 corridor is a hotbed for the hate culture in the US. Less than two months ago “Joshua Cartwright, 28, a U.S. Army Reserve soldier, shot 45-year-old deputies Warren “Skip” York and Burt Lopez just before 1 p.m. at the Shoal River [...] If you’re in the northwest of Florida and you’re looking for a burger, you might want to check out this burger blog. These bloggers are looking for the best burger in the greater Pensacola area. Senator Bill Nelson has taken the lead on abolishing poisonous Chinese drywall in the US. The next step is to help Florida become a producer of EcoRock (as seen in the video below). Nelson’s leadership on drywall issues, and Florida’s aching construction industry, combine for a rare opportunity to bring new, sustainable businesses to the sunshine [...] Miami leads the nation in personal credit card debt with the average person owing over 20% of their income to credit card companies. That translates to a household earning $50,000 owes over $10,000 on their credit cards. Tampa is not far behind, where the average household “owes 17.1% of its total income.” Jacksonville (16.38%) and Orlando (16.37%) [...] It’s one thing to not know the rudiments of grammar and spelling. It’s something else to not know the rudiments of grammar and spelling while calling someone else an idiot. It’s jaw-droppingly, mind-numblingly dumb to not know the rudiments of grammar and spelling while calling a graduate of Harvard Law School, editor of the Harvard [...] Florida’s largest bank goes belly-up. “WASHINGTON — Regulators on Thursday shut down BankUnited FSB, a struggling Florida thrift whose closure is expected to cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. $4.9 billion. “The failure of the Coral Gables, Fla.-based bank represents the second-largest hit to the FDIC’s insurance fund so far _ the costliest was last year’s seizure [...] In today’s Capitol Offense column, Kenneth Quinnell offers a great overview and introduction to the Florida Progressive Coalition. 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