It's only been a week since the Florida presidential primary election came and went, and tonight the cable news networks will crank up their political coverage once again as three more states hold primaries and/or caucuses: Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri, with Rick Santorum hoping to put a dent into those stories about Mitt Romney and his inevitability in getting the GOP nomination.
There are now two board members on the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) who campaigned against the light-rail tax measure that the agency was promoting in 2010. On Monday Governor Rick Scott named Josh Burgin to the agency. Burgin ran against Mark Sharpe in 2010 specifically because of Sharpe's support for the penny tax.
Speaking of HART, their CEO referred yesterday to some actions going on in Washington that could seriously imperil the transit agency's ability to run a decent bus system in the near future.
This article appears in Feb 2-8, 2012.