Nelson Poynter

Two foreclosure actions face former Nelson Poynter estate, Tampa Bay’s classiest ‘party house’

Published on May 16, 2017 in Local Courts/Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

Two friends are facing off in court over a defaulted loan secured by an old estate of the late St. Petersburg Times owner Nelson Poynter, once valued at nearly $10 million. Fazal Abbas Fazlin is a 66-year-old engineer and a native of Pakistan. In 2008, a New York Times column by Roger Cohen profiled Fazlin, a millionaire entrepreneur, Muslim, Republican and Richard Nixon fan who backed Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election. In 1999, Fazlin and then-wife Christina Marie Fazlin…

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On Jeb Bush and bare loins in art

Published on December 28, 2015 in 2017/Top Headlines by Jim Rosica

FloridaPolitics.com and Context Florida contributor Florence Snyder adds a “funny Jeb” anecdote in light of The New York Times story on Bush’s dry sense of humor. “As his campaign has struggled to rejuvenate a languishing bid, some close to him have suggested the existence of a (very) secret weapon: It is at least possible that Jeb Bush is funny,” Matt Flegenheimer writes. “He is a candidate so dry that flights of wit can become indistinguishable from a sober default setting,” Flegenheimer adds.…

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First Amendment Foundation, Poynter Institute may team up

Published on December 14, 2015 in Apolitical/Top Headlines by Jim Rosica

The Tallahassee-based First Amendment Foundation, the state’s public records and open meetings watchdog, is considering a partnership with The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg. Foundation President Barbara Petersen told FloridaPolitics.com the two groups are working on an agreement in which Poynter, a nonprofit journalism education organization, “will assume all of the Foundation’s administrative responsibilities.” That will include handling future production of the organization’s Government-in-the-Sunshine Manual, updated yearly, and hosting its website. If the deal goes through, the foundation will shed two office positions, leaving…

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