The blowback from the political left after President Obama announced his compromise plan is fierce and unrestrained; Combined with a few influential conservatives also claiming the bill is insufficient, the idea that the proposal is a done deal might be a tad premature.
Hillsborough County school officials are cheering the improved test scores and grading of their schools that was announced yesterday from Tallahassee. And on a related note, next to an article written by former D.C. school chancellor Michelle Rhee, Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association head Jean Clements gets prominent play in the current issue of Newsweek.
Yesterday Chuck Sykes, the new head of the greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce, clarified remarks he made last week about the chamber's possible emphasis on trying to find private financing for a new home for the Tampa Bay Rays.
And of course you know that it 30 years ago tonight when those of us who were alive learned that John Lennon had been assassinated in front of the Dakota apartments in Manhattan, stunning the entire world. We look back then and how the artist, who would have been 70 years old this year, still is so huge in our culture.
the report here.
This article appears in Dec 2-8, 2010.