Rep. Irv Slosberg has filed a bill that would allow companies to buy the naming rights for all kinds of state transportation assets, including highways, roads, on-and-off ramps, toll facilities, parks or railways. Slosberg has even drawn up an illustration as an example, showing what road signs for a Disney Turnpike might look like. Yes, the [...]
Wow, Deborah Cox-Roush is the gift that keeps on giving. In a tweet meant to be sent as a direct message rather than as a reply (I know because I was asked the same question), Hillsborough GOP Chair Deborah Cox-Roush let it slip that she preferred Adam Hasner, not Senate President Mike Haridopolos, US Rep. [...]
Via Inside the Lines: State Representative Will Weatherford (R-Wesley Chapel), Chairman of the House Redistricting Committee, announced the re-launch of FloridaRedistricting.org (www.floridaredistricting.org). The re-launch of this site is part of a comprehensive effort to involve the public in the redistricting process that began with the 2010 MyFloridaCensus initiative and will continue through the 2012 redistricting [...]
It’s not exactly news at the St. Petersburg Times, but for loyal readers of the newspaper, this personnel note may come as a shock: Ace reporter Jeff Testerman is retiring from the St. Petersburg Times. And like Michael Jordan hitting the game-winning shot in the NBA Finals, Testerman is going out on top, having authored [...]
According to the latest campaign finance reports, Harry Cohen, Seth Nelson, Michael Ciftci & Tony DeSisto leading fundraisers in Tampa City Council races (Cohen, Ciftci, DeSisto and Stokes advertise on my network of websites). Mitch Perry compiled the numbers in a larger article here: Among city council candidates, Mike Suarez, who got into the race [...]
Faced with a dramatic decline in the number of Americans moving to Florida, community boosters are promoting the Sunshine State as a cluster of research and technology, not just a balmy place to live. The rebranding reflects attempts to attract businesses and college graduates while reviving the stream of retirees and home buyers who once [...]
From Roll Call: A year ago, then-candidate Marco Rubio received a megastar welcome when he was introduced by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) as a keynote speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference annual gathering in Washington, D.C. But when CPAC kicks off next week, Florida’s freshman Senator plans to be miles away from the gathering — with [...]
From the News Service of Florida: The Census Bureau will hold a webinar to discuss the upcoming release of local-level data from the 2010 Census. States use these numbers — which include data on race, Hispanic origin and the voting population — to redraw congressional and state legislative boundaries. The Census Bureau will deliver the [...]
In the first major media salvo of its effort to reclaim the House in 2012, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is launching an advertising campaign against 19 targeted Republican incumbents, including Florida’s Dave Rivera and Allen West. Read more from the Washington Post here.
The moment Dick Greco said during an interview on Bay News 9′s Political Connections that, in his four terms of Mayor of Tampa, there is not single decision or action that he regrets or would have done differently, I winced in embarrassment for both him and the city he will most likely lead. Not quitting [...]
