There really aren't that many songs about rainbows, when you stop to think about it.
St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman fired the city's water resources director and demoted another official in the latest fallout from the 'Burg's sewage woes. Well, you know the old saying — when it rains, you gotta pour gray water into the bay, and then scramble mightily to cover your ass even though the problem was decades in the making.
A woman was arrested in Palm Beach County for giving an infant water laced with MDMA, while the woman was rolling herself. Remember that lady who exposed a toddler to cocaine last week? Just when you think Florida couldn't get any more Florida, what with the face-biting and people-eating of the last two years, along comes "flat-out putting drugs into children's systems" to up the ante from "lethally stupid" to "actively evil."
Madeira Beach firefighters helped a woman give birth in a car outside her condo on Tuesday. We're assuming you can watch the crowning on YouTube.
And finally, a Republican Florida lawmaker has introduced legislation that would re-institute a mandatory helmet law for motorcyclists. An unnecessary restriction on the people's freedoms that requires a massive outlay of resources to police, and is basically unenforcible? Small government in action, that's what that is.
This article appears in Dec 22-29, 2016.