Happy 6th of July to everyone.  I hope you all had a great weekend, though it'd be nice if we might get some precipitation in the Tampa Bay area.

The third quarter of 2010 has begun, and Senate Democratic candidate Kendrick Meek thinks it will now be his time in the spotlight;

The St. Pete Times PolitiFact researches the claims by the anti illegal-immigration group FAIR (parroted by state Republicans) that undocumented immigrants cost Florida $3.8 billion a year, and finds that lacking;

And as the arguments continue about Senate Republicans continuing intransigence on providing more unemployment benefits, the discussion has fired up NY Times columnist David Brooks, who seems to take a shot at his colleague, Paul Krugman.

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