What hath Monday wrought? A yen for old-timey language use, apparently, though that might just be a little pre-Renaissance Festival excitement. Anyhoo:

Rowdies owner/local business magnate Bill Edwards bought the downtown St. Pete building housing a parking garage and the former home of restaurant Midtown Sundries, ostensibly to provide more parking for the soccer fans who attend games at the nearby stadium. Across the bay, Jeff Vinik searches for something, anything left in the Port of Tampa he can buy in response.

Hillsborough County School Board officials are figuring out that hiring a replacement for ousted superintendent MaryEllen Elia will probably cost just as much as she was being paid, if not more — on top of the $1 million taxpayers will be handing her to go away. Turns out "polarizing county education official" is 2015's "racist owner of lucrative basketball franchise."

A Quinnipiac University poll reported 47 percent of Floridians don't approve of Governor Rick Scott, but 53 percent are "generally optimistic" about his next four years in office. To be fair, that could just mean they're "generally optimistic" about making it through Scott's second term without resorting to working at Walmart or eating a relative to survive.

And finally, back to the polls: a recent poll of "emerging countries" just starting to take full advantage of digital communications technology found more respondents saying they used Facebook than those saying they use the internet, indicating that many users may not understand that Facebook is on the internet. Related: when asked what he thought it meant that his information was now "in the cloud," my father replied, "Bespin?"

This article appears in Feb 5-11, 2015.