Sen. Mike Bennett filed a bill last week that would continue his long-running quest to give more drug-prescribing powers to optometrists, reports the News Service of Florida. The Bradenton Republican also added a sweetener — medical-malpractice protections for hospitals and emergency room workers — that is aimed at defusing physician opposition to the bill. Groups [...]
The St. Petersburg Times editorial board took after developer and local music impresario for contributing $5,000 to the campaign of Bob Kersteen, which the Times interprets as an attempt to “buy control of a seat on the City Council.” Hardly. Actually, Edwards should be saluted for taking the upcoming City Council races more seriously than almost anyone else in town, save [...]
A new 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll finds Americans would choose Ronald Reagan over Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 36% to 29%, as the past president they would want in the White House in these trying times. Thomas Jefferson came in third place with 14% from a list of five past presidents that also includes Harry Truman at 8% and [...]
A crowd of hotel managers gathered in the ballroom of the Wyndam Tampa Westshore on Wednesday expecting a routine update on plans for the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa. Instead, a new convention contractor delivered a shock: Hotels are expected to throw out year-old room contracts with the convention’s Republican organizers and sign new [...]
Here’s a video of clips of a few of the more, shall we say, unplugged moments in a recent Rick Perry speech in New Hampshire. “It was different,” Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas told HuffPost afterwards. You can make your own mind up.
Top aides to Herman Cain “ran a private Wisconsin-based corporation that helped the GOP presidential candidate get his fledgling campaign off the ground by originally footing the bill for tens of thousands of dollars in expenses for such items as iPads, chartered flights and travel to Iowa and Las Vegas — something that might breach [...]
“During Herman Cain’s tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, at least two female employees complained to colleagues and senior association officials about inappropriate behavior by Cain, ultimately leaving their jobs at the trade group,” Politico reports. “The women complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Cain that made them angry and uncomfortable, [...]
My colleague Linda Hersey of Patch suggests five things to do in St. Pete in Halloween. Here are two of them which I highly recommend: 1.) Old Northeast Scare Zone: This is one of the most popular places in the city on Halloween night. The entire block of 17th Avenue, between Locust and Poplar in the [...]
A section-by-section analysis of the ‘Destination Casino’ legislation (HB 487) provided by Pete Dunbar of Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell and Dunbar.
The smiling governor, coatless and tieless, against a white background: ”If you’re lookin’ for a slick politician or a guy with great TelePrompTer skills, we already HAVE that – and he’s destroying our economy. I’m a doer, not a talker. In Texas, we created 40 percent of the new jobs in the EN-tire country since June [...]
