Back at it after a Monday on which I couldn't find a damned thing to recommend:
- If there is one entrenched bureaucracy in local government that rises above all the other entrenched bureaucracies, it is the Pinellas transit system. So is it any surprise that PSTA is slowing down the idea of merging Pinellas and Hillsborough's transit organizations?
- Who lost the gubernatorial debate last night? Why, the voters, of course, according to the Times editorial. It is particularly harsh on that carpetbagger Chris Matthews.
- More than $10 million worth of those Jim Davis-Charlie Crist ads (not to mention others for statewide offices) you are sick of by now were paid for by … you, the taxpayer. The Herald's Gary Fineout details this political welfare system.
- Yes, the political ads are true; Sarasota congressional candidate Vern Buchanan uses offshore companies as a shelter from taxes. The Herald-Tribune details how it works.
- The conservative National Review cites a study that says midterm election coverage is skewed to help Democrats.
- Been reading Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat" for my graduate class in Globalization. Now, Friedman is all wrong about globalization (a long story), but I didn't even realize his view of the world may be skewed by his enormous personal wealth (as outlined at Huffington Post, whose writer likewise doesn't understand globalization at all, another long story).
This article appears in Oct 25-31, 2006.