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Tampa Bay Bucs among teams that seek money from the state for stadium

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Aside from buying the odd ticket here and there, should the politicians of Florida be spending money on the professional sports teams of the state? It’s a decent question at a time the Tampa Bay Bucs, Miami Dolphins and Jacksonville Jaguars are among the teams with their hands out. The Bucs filed their application for money – as much as $1 million a year – on Monday. The Bucs, at an impasse with their negotiations with the Tampa Sports Authority…

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Wife’s attorney accuses Alan Grayson of intimidation

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A divorce lawyer for U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson‘s wife says the congressman is trying to intimidate him. Attorney Mark Longwell said in a court filing Friday that Grayson had written him an email threatening litigation for comments Longwell made about the divorce proceedings earlier in the week. Longwell says the email was an attempt to intimidate him and influence his counsel of Grayson’s wife, Lolita. A trial on whether the Graysons’ marriage was legitimate started earlier this week in an…

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Bill Day’s latest: Charlie Crist’s leaky trial balloon

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Bill Day’s latest is a take on former Gov. Charlie Crist, rumored to be contemplating another crusade for the U.S. Senate. This news is not surprising for those familiar with the former governor, former Republican, and former Gov. Rick Scott opponent – who also “blew” a 35-point lead against Marco Rubio in the U.S. Senate Republican primary in 2010. That loss helped precipitate Crist’s shift from the GOP to an independent, which then led to a move to the Democratic…

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Congressman to argue that estranged wife committed bigamy

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An outspoken liberal congressman from Florida will argue in court Monday that his 24-year marriage should be annulled because his estranged wife committed bigamy, the opening salvo in an acrimonious divorce case a judge likened to an episode of the TV series “House of Cards.” Rep. Alan Grayson says his wife, Lolita, was still married to Robert Carson when she and the multimillionaire congressman married in 1990 in Virginia. Grayson, a Democrat and highly successful trial lawyer, said the marriage…

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Budget, beer, guns, pot and potties on lawmakers’ agenda

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Conservation land purchases, beer growlers, tax cuts, guns on state university campuses, medical marijuana and even where transgender people can go to the bathroom will all be issues that will come up during Florida’s 2015 legislative session. The only requirement lawmakers have under Florida law is to approve the state budget, but there’s always so much more when the 120 representatives and 40 senators come to the Capitol for 60 days each year. The session starts Tuesday with Gov. Rick…

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