American Couple Aboard Missing Flight
Mary Miley expected to hear from her sister, Anne Debaillon Harris, once Harris and her husband, Michael, reached Paris on Sunday and had time to unpack. The couple, who lived in Lafayette, La., until four years ago when they moved to The Woodlands, Texas, headed to France for a training seminar involving Michael Harris’ work [...]
New Book Offers Biden Anecdotes From 2008
During the 2008 presidential campaign, then-Sen. Joe Biden often described the Republican presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain, as his friend. But a new book by Richard Wolffe describes a scene in which Biden tried to confront McCain. “Biden was offended about a story pushed by conservative operatives about his daughter getting into trouble with the [...]
A Quota Queen for the Court
If the U.S. Senate rejects race-based justice, Sonia Sotomayor will never sit on the Supreme Court. Because that is what Sonia is all about. As The New York Times reported Saturday, the salient cause of her career has been advancing persons of color, over whites, based on race and national origin. “Judge Sotomayor, whose parents [...]
Patterson Jumps Into GOP Primary for State CFO
Volusia County state Rep. Pat Patterson said Tuesday that he is “definitely” running for the Cabinet post of chief financial officer, setting the stage for a potential Republican primary contest with Senate President Jeff Atwater. “Outside the four blocks surrounding the Capitol, most people in Florida have no idea who the Senate president or House [...]
Tallahassee PR Firm Looking for an ‘Apprentice’
Donald Trump may not be in the boardroom, but the stakes are just as high for four interns at a Tallahassee-based public relations company. Four women working as public relations interns for Kidd Group, a Tallahassee communications company that represents state agencies and other governmental entities and banks among other clients, are competing for a [...]
Local GOP Chair: Less Government, Not More
Today the Florida Times-Union published the following editorial from Duval County Republican Party Chairman Lenny Curry. In his letter to the people of Duval County, Curry outlines his feelings about where the local party needs to go and what issues are important for the GOP to address. Perhaps most importantly, Curry notes that Republicans have made [...]
Channel 4 Tapped as Home of 2010 Statewide Debates
With five statewide elections and competitive races developing for all of them, 2010 is shaping up to be an election year to watch. And now, 14 months before anyone casts a ballot, organizers are moving to make it easier to watch debates between the candidates. The partnership that produced debates during the last two election [...]
Guest Editorial: The Party of ‘Hell No’
The United States has ceased to be a constitutional republic. Our country was established by the adoption of a constitution that is no longer in force in any real way. Our social structures are failing; our foreign policy is an embarrassment; our financial institutions are a giant Ponzi scheme. Since the end of the first [...]
Dave Matthews Band Finds Strength
The band leader wanders into a hotel lounge for an afternoon appointment sounding groggy and hoarse, sporting a thick dark stubble, craving coffee and seeming to validate all of those clichés about a musician’s life on the road. But Dave Matthews’ condition can’t be blamed on cruising the city’s underbelly until the wee hours. On [...]
Sotomayor Debate Is a Chance to Discuss Race
For decades, America’s liberal establishment has been saying that what we need more than anything is a frank conversation about race. Well, here’s another chance. Ever since the Kerner Commission in 1967, we’ve been hearing how Americans need to air out their racial views. After the L.A. riots, Hurricane Katrina and every other racially loaded [...]
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