Happy New Year, CL and MPR readers.
For Tampa Bay Buc fans, the NFL season is mercifully over. Then again, I've had a bit of hard time the past two days, what with my Oakland Raiders choking on Sunday and Stanford blowing the Fiesta Bowl last night. Well, the 49ers are at least in the playoffs for the first time in nine years.
But enough about football. The most competitive sport going in the U.S. tonight will be in Iowa, where all of a sudden Rick Santorum has become the latest anti-Mitt Romney candidate. If you're into the pure competition of it all, watching the results unfold this evening should be fun.
It's the first official business day of the New Year, but we're just a week away from the first day of the 2012 Florida Legislature's regular session. Activists around the state critical of Governor Rick Scott and the GOP-led Legislature's priorities plan rallies to commemorate opening day.
And the New Yorker magazine's premiere media reporter, Ken Auletta, weighs in on a recent controversy regarding U.S. Senator Marco Rubio and the Spanish-language broadcaster Univision.
This article appears in Dec 22-28, 2011.