Despite the sponsor’s plea to move out of the “horse and buggy days,” a House panel Tuesday killed a bill that could have led to foreclosure notices disappearing from newspapers and going to Internet sites, reports Jim Saunders of the News Service of Florida. Siding with the newspaper industry and groups such as AARP, the [...]

It doesn’t sound promising for Kenneth Quinnell’s Florida Progressive Coalition website: “On a personal level, I’m having difficulty maintaining a schedule of posting that is sufficient to meet the needs that the state faces. I have to earn a living and my teaching gig and writing gig at Crooks and Liars take precedent because they [...]

92% of the ads in Florida during the final week of the campaign were negative. “Of all the spots that ran in Florida for the last week, 68 percent were attacks on Mr. Gingrich, Kantar Media found. Only 9 percent were favorable toward him. Ads assailing Mr. Romney accounted for 23 percent of the political [...]

Matt Yglesias: Facebook included the above image in its IPO filing, noting that if you simply map the connections between users you “form a picture that approximates a global map.” In general, this looks a lot like a map of light use or economic activity—large population centers and rich areas shine bright, while lots of [...]

The Tampa Bay Times coverage going in to Tuesday’s presidential primary was, as usual, stellar.  Alex Leary and Adam Smith were windows into the state for the rest of the country.  A day did not go by when Smith or Leary or PolitiFact or the Times‘ partners at the Miami Herald were not cited or interviewed or [...]

The composer of the Survivor hit “Eye of the Tiger” has sued Newt Gingrich to stop the Republican presidential candidate from using the “Rocky III” anthem at campaign events, reports Andy Grimm of the Chicago Tribune. The lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court in Chicago by Rude Music  Inc., the Palatine-based music publishing company owned by [...]

John Avlon reports that a staggering 92% of the political ads run in Florida over the last week have been negative. “This tsunami of sleaze is being propelled by unprecedented advertising buys. The Romney campaign and its associated super PAC, Restore Our Future, have spent $15.3 million in Florida over the past month alone… To put [...]

NBC News set up shop on the banks of the Hillsborough River. Fox News Channel chose a spot on Harbour Island. Reporters from national news outlets have descended on Tampa to cover today’s Republican presidential primary, highlighting how prominent Florida is in the political landscape and giving residents a preview of the crush of media [...]

Political Fiber, which launches Wednesday, will have news “designed to engage students in both the production and consumption of serious [political] issues coverage,” says a press release via Jim Romenso. Several recent University of Kansas graduates and current students have been hired to work on the site, along with faculty advisor Pam Fine. Fine said [...]

NYTimes’ Ashley Parker: “Romney’s aides say they can get a sense of where a story is headed before it is published simply by reading reporters’ Twitter messages. If reporters have flagged a particular incident on Twitter … Mr. Romney’s aides might pull him aside before a press conference and warn him that the topic is [...]