We want to welcome the hundreds of political reporters in town for the RNC walk-thru today of the St. Pete Times Forum and the Tampa Convention Center. Those two spots will host, respectively, the 2012 Republican National Convention and the work camp for the thousands of reporters who will be toiling during the convention during the dog days of next August. Word to the wise: If you don't like the 80 degrees and increasing humidity that we're experiencing today, you're really going to be in for it next summer.
In the news today, Rick Scott unveils his 2012 budget tomorrow. One thing that it won't include is any pension reform .
As we've written about previously on this site, when it comes to discussing undocumented immigrants, the GOP presidential candidates are virtually in lockstep in announcing that nothing should happen until we can "secure the border." Well, a Homeland Security report indicates that apparently that is what's happening now.
Did you know that federal health care reform is actually the law right now? Apparently our governor didn't. That and other news about the controversial bill you can read here.
And the IKEA store in Tampa is going solar.
This article appears in Dec 1-7, 2011.
