We'lll be on a short holiday hiatus, but then again, I may try to post from home in a post-tryptophan haze:
- I'm proud to have counted Sheriff Jim Coats as one of my political clients back in the day. For reasons like this.
- County Commission changes. The losers: Ken Hagan fails in his bid to chairman, and Brian Blair is muscled by newbie Rose Ferlita. The winners: Hillsborough's HART transit system gets rid of Blair and Storms and receives Ferlita, Mark Sharpe and newbie Al Higginbotham. Tribune here, Times here.
- Snow in Orlando last night? I'm calling bullshit on this one.
- Kurt Loft has a nice obit of local jazz radio legend Vic Hall, who passed away Monday.
- I-4 Jamming gives us a great thought from Bobby as we head into this reflective holiday.
- If you ever wonder why our country is so screwed up, read this take from a schoolteacher about her encounter with another teacher who doesn't get the whole constitutional free speech thing.
- In the "America's Worst Newspaper" balloting, the St. Petersburg Times got a nomination; the Tampa Tribune didn't. But the bad news for the Tower of Power in St. Pete: they're trailing badly, with 1% of the vote (Seattle and Palm Beach Post are much worse, according to voters.)
- Oh, and absolutely nothing on Kelly Ripa and Rosie O'Donnell, two classic non-talents, feuding over another non-talent, Clay Aiken, and whether Kelly is homophobic and blah blah frickidy blah.
This article appears in Nov 22-28, 2006.