Editor’s note: Put out your hand and meet P.A.W. —  the Political Ad Watch club coming together to offer a critical take on the soon-to-be-unending stream of political commercials.  As new commercials are released by candidates and campaigns running in the Sunshine State, a not-too-select group of political aficionados will offer their expert opinions on [...]

  Here’s a video created by senior Tea’a Taylor from Freedom High School in Orange County, Florida, through the school’s Patriot Productions with help from digital educator Cody Stanley. The teenager, who has been following the debate about the role of standardized tests for some time, targeted the effect on students of the Florida Comprehensive [...]

  Rep. Ron Saunders and Mark Pudlow of the Florida Education Association react to a significant drop in FCAT writing scores.

  Like me, Mark Schmitt is disappointed by HBO’s “Veep”: [Director Armando Iannucci’s characters have] won elections, been given some formal power, even if it’s just a tie-breaking vote in the Senate. They vaguely want to use that power for some good—clean energy or education. But the actual ability to use or claim power continually eludes them. Where Veep falls [...]

The Connie Mack for Senate campaign launched a new 30 second TV-ready web ad today featuring President Barack Obama’s public praising of George LeMieux’s vote for a liberal jobs bill that failed to create any jobs. Obama praised LeMieux at a White House ceremony for being one of only two Republicans to vote for the [...]

Shoshana Kessock wonders why fans become so incensed when creators such as Avengers director Joss Whedon and Game of Thronesscribe George R.R. Martin kill off main characters: I believe the discomfort comes down to the base fear of death and uncertainty that people face every day. Death is a subject that makes people uncomfortable. It doesn’t surprise me then that [...]

  Rep. Jeff Brandes is up with a second commercial for his re-election campaign. Take a look.

  Michael Van Sickler from the Tampa Bay Times posted this humorous article on how Mayor Bill Foster’s image is being used by a house-flipper in a local magazine ad, and they even have a video testimonial with Foster himself giving a glowing account of one of the house-flipper’s rehabs, it’s not even taken out of context. [...]

  Restore Justice 2012, a grassroots effort targeting judicial activism, has released it’s first video, ‘What if’ ‘What if you could change the direction of a state for a generation? Last election one-million Florida voters left the judicial portion of the ballot blank. Join us as we seek to educate voters throughout the state on [...]

  Gov. Rick Scott chides reporters following a critical report in the Miami Herald about his chief of staff Steve MacNamara. The governor says, “You guys are mean to poor Steve MacNamara. He’s out there working his tail off and you guys write these mean things about him.” Scott also answers whether he thinks Florida [...]