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Marco Rubio tells Club for Growth its picks are GOP’s new leaders

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Sen. Marco Rubio told the anti-tax group Club for Growth on Saturday that the Senate candidates they’ve backed recently represent the Republican Party’s new leadership. The Florida senator was among a half-dozen presidential prospects who spoke at the group’s three-day winter meeting, which ended Saturday at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. Among Republican senators attending the meeting were Arkansas’ Tom Cotton, Texas’ Ted Cruz, Utah’s Mike Lee, Alaska’s Dan Sullivan and Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey. All received the club’s…

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Adam Smith no longer to be part of Bay News 9’s Political Connections after next week

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Political Connections, the Tampa Bay area’s version of Meet The Press, has featured Tampa Bay Times Political Editor Adam Smith as its co-host along with Al Reuschel since 2006. But that relationship will end after the March 8 broadcast. Smith’s name has already been removed from the program’s website. That news was omitted on Thursday when the Times reported on their new joint broadcast with WTSP-Channel 10, to be called 10 News Sunday Morning With the Tampa Bay Times that debuts this Sunday. Sources say…

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A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers

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A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers: Tampa Bay Times — New prisons chief makes progress Department of Corrections Secretary Julie Jones is right to rebid nearly $1.4 billion in contracts for health care providers in Florida’s prisons. Her decision comes at a time when suspicious inmate deaths are inexplicably high and medical teams appear to be short-staffed in many prisons. It makes good business sense for the department to review the state’s medical contracts to ensure that…

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‘House of Cards’ dealt Netflix a winning hand

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Even if it never wins another award, “House of Cards” already ranks among the most influential series in television history. The political drama launched Netflix’s expansion into original programming two years ago, a risky bet that might have toppled the Internet video service had “House of Cards” flopped and squandered its estimated $100 million investment. Instead, the show was an immediate hit with viewers and critics, giving Netflix the financial clout and creative firepower to further transform how we watch…

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Coming Monday — 3rd annual ranking of Tampa Bay’s 25 Most Powerful Politicians

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After reading a 2012 article from Scott Maxwell of the Orlando Sentinel about the most powerful pols in Central Florida, I thought it would be interesting to determine who, in fact, are the 25 most powerful politicians in Tampa Bay. So I asked several of the leading political consultants, activists, bloggers, operatives and local lobbyists to provide a list of who they consider the 25 most powerful pols in the region. For the purposes of this experiment, the Tampa Bay…

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U.S., Cuba cite progress on restoring diplomatic ties

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The United States and Cuba claimed progress Friday toward ending a half-century diplomatic freeze, suggesting they could clear some of the biggest obstacles to their new relationship within weeks. After Friday’s talks in Washington, the second round of U.S.-Cuban discussions in the last month, diplomats of both countries spoke positively about fulfilling the promise made by Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro in December to restore embassies in each other’s capitals. The U.S. even held out hope of clinching a…

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Labs extend record as U.S. top dog, but bulldogs make waves

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America’s fondness for Labrador retrievers is still setting records, but bulldogs are breaking new ground. Labs reigned as the nation’s top dog last year for the 24th year after breaking poodles’ decades-old record in 2013, according to American Kennel Club rankings set to be released Thursday. But bulldogs have hit a new high — No. 4 — and their bat-eared cousins, French bulldogs, sauntered into the top 10 for the first time in nearly a century. German shepherds, golden retrievers…

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