Buttery French Fare: Gone Appétit?
Sacrebleu! Could it be true? Has French cuisine and cooking become passe? The question arises in the wake of just-opened “Julie & Julia,” the Nora Ephron homage to Julia Child (Meryl Streep) that tells two delicious stories: how Child became one of the 20th century’s culture-changing figures, and what happened when Julie Powell, a 21st-century [...]
Martha Barrett Files to Run for School Board
After Duval County School Board member Stan Jordan announced Monday he will join the pack of Republicans looking to fill the State Senate seat opened by the death of Jim King, former School Board member Martha Barrett has now filed to reclaim her seat less than a year after leaving office. Barrett is an executive [...]
‘Guiding Light’ Goes Dark
The “guiding light” that gave the longest-running soap opera its name was quietly extinguished Tuesday at Peapack Reformed Church in Peapack-Gladstone in New Jersey. Cast members and crew of “The Guiding Light” were also on location at Dominick’s Pizza and other sites in the borough to wrap up the last day of shooting for daytime [...]
Jim Greer Distances State GOP From Rowdy Townhalls
Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer sought Wednesday to distance the state GOP from a series of feisty town halls on the health care plan being debated in Congress, including a meeting in Tampa for Rep. Kathy Castor last week that saw some physical altercations. Greer said the town halls have not been as [...]
Economists: Revenue Estimates Down Slightly, Economy Stabilizing
Florida’s tax collections are flowing in $147.1 million below expected levels, but the relatively mild shortfall left Florida economists Tuesday waving off talk that lawmakers would need a special session to patch the state budget. When the Legislature ended the regular spring session, they left $730 million in rainy day reserves tucked into the $66.5 [...]
Levy County Nuclear Plant Moves Forward
Over passionate objections from a small but vocal group of critics who gathered at the Capital to protest, the governor and Cabinet unanimously approved a key element in a proposal from Progress Energy for a new nuclear power plant in Levy County during its regular meeting Tuesday morning. The Progress Energy plant, which still needs [...]
Higher Ed Prepares For Thousands of Veterans
Florida colleges and universities are welcoming hundreds of thousands of students to campus this fall, and a large portion of those students include men and women who chose to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces following Sept. 11, 2001. Thousands of those students entering the state’s community colleges and universities will be attending under the [...]
A Statistical Recovery
By many measures, the economy is starting to show the stirrings of a recovery. The Washington Post on Tuesday reported that businesses shed the least number of jobs in nearly a year. Notice that didn’t say adding jobs, but fewer were laid off. The rate of savings is up, and productivity has risen to a [...]
Drew Barrymore: No Goofing When I’m Directing!
Drew Barrymore doesn’t sound much like the fun-loving free spirit who once flashed David Letterman when she talks about being a director — as she is on her upcoming “Whip It” movie, in which she also stars. What kind of director is Ms. B.? “I don’t understand laid-back — it freaks me out. I hate [...]
Big Business Goes Big for Health-Care Reform
“What disturbs Americans of all ideological persuasions is the fear that almost everything, not just government, is fixed or manipulated by some powerful hidden hand,” Frank Rich wrote in Sunday’s New York Times (http://tinyurl.com/nkqfy8). That manipulation should disturb us. But contrary to Rich, it is not the work of “corporatists” who have sprung up to [...]
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