Tailpipe has been through the divorce mill, and this battered cylinder still bears the scars. How do you assign numerical value (usually dollars and cents) to all of the shared “property” of what might have been a long, complicated affiliation? It’s a ticklish process. Like, who gets the Picasso prints…
I won’t go into details, but I spent a long, grueling week at my day job defending myself for having a lousy MySpace page. And standing up for my right to self-expression (it was, after all, my space) had left me worked up, wiped out, and maybe just a little…
The Little Engine Tri-Rail pays the bills: Loved your article on Tri-Rail (“Hot Tracks,” Tony Ortega, November 9). I’ve been using it and Broward County Transit for about a year and have saved $13,000 toward a home because I have no more car payment, insurance, or gas costs. Marie Kerrigan…
The main story on the Sentinel’s front page yesterday was all about how great the selection of Mel Martinez to lead the Republican National Committee was going to be for Florida. Written by sister paper Orlando Sentinel reporter Jim Stratton, it was full of gushing quotes from Republicans talking about…
Here’s what I’m tired of: America patting itself on the back for dumping the Republican Congress. Democracy works, they say. People were smart enough to see through the lies. America isn’t really a dumb brute of a country. Ask Marilyn Ginsburg of Boynton Beach, who wrote a letter to the…
Scott Keeler/St. Pete Times Lemieux Doing things backwards and upside down today, so I’ll highlight some of the weekend coverage in the afternoon instead of the morn. First, both the Miami Herald and St. Pete Times introduced us to the “Maestro” of the Charlie Crist campaign, George Lemieux. Both stories…
Richard Pachter writes in the Miami Herald of the cold truth in the business of writing books: It is truly a business. This is nothing new, but Pachter, as part of the newspaper’s coverage of the Miami Book Fair, does an excellent job fleshing out the hardships of writers who…
Local PBS politicial show host Helen Ferre has apparently survived a very tough spell. First the Issues maven was found to have been paid propaganda money by the U.S. government for her work on the anti-Fidel Radio Marti. Then it was reported that she was on the short list to…
Jim Scott always has had a blessed political life. And it turns out that one of the worst moments of his career — losing Tuesday to political newcomer Ken Keechl in his reelection bid for the Broward County Commission — may turn out to be a blessing too. Florida governor-elect…
Julie Kay at the Daily Business Review tells us that both St. Petersburg Times reporter William Levesque, who is suffering from cancer, and Orlando attorney David Hendriz are being forced to testify today in a fraud trial today in Miami. In other words, U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez got…
Amidst all the political coverage in the newspapers today, a letter writer to the Sun-Sentinel had the most interesting take on the surprising ouster of political veteran Jim Scott by lawyer Ken Keechl. Fort Lauderdale’s Christopher Engle wrote: “This campaign was another example of the increasingly important vote of the…
It’s been a few months since Michael Mayo, in his South Florida Sun-Sentinel column, referred to Tri-Rail as a failure, which is far too long since he’s taken a swipe. I wish he’d do it again soon. I figure the more Mayo labels the commuter rail line a flop, the…
On a Saturday night at Mizner Park, Gigi’s Tavern was busting out all over the place like ten thousand-dollar tits in a five-dollar shirt — just as my friend Kim had promised. Like any meat market, the prime cuts were right out front. Luxury cars were parked at the curb…
Can you say mutilation 100 times fast? Thanks for illustrating just how ill-conceived an idea it is to have an exotic cat as a pet (“Off the Leash,” Jeff Stratton, November 2). The USDA just made it illegal for a license holder to declaw an exotic cat. This link will…
Say your industry’s biggest image problem used to be the notion that all of your customers were newlyweds and nearly deads hoping to find themselves in a buffet line with Kathie Lee Gifford. Today, you wish you still had those kinds of PR headaches. The news lately has you on…
Pemble Look, I know. I’m overdoing it on Charlie Crist. But he is the new governor and I had to point out that Crist “girlfriend” Katie Pemble, a 41-year-old divorcee and mother of a seven-year-old daughter, resurfaced today with him. Seems they’re still putting on a show of it. In…
In his Miami Herald column, Channel 10’s Michael Putney nails the obscene nature of Charlie Crist’s ad campaign: ———————————————– “The principal reason for my cynicism is the avalanche of fiendishly clever and monstrously misleading political ads we’ve been subjected to. They poisoned the well of the body politic and the…
I’ve been goofing on the boys and girls who do the St. Petersburg Times Buzz blog the past couple days, but man I’m really starting to get addicted to that thing. It’s definitely the best political blog in the state, easy, and not just because informed reporters are constantly updating…
Where’s Pemble? So the St. Pete Times finally admits it: We don’t know a damn thing about Charlie Crist. The newspaper’s political editor, Adam C. Smith, writes in today’s newspaper that Crist is a “mystery”: “Who is Governor-elect Crist? He’s a national figure without any real identity, a winner with…
Keechl Tee’d Off On Jim Scott So it looks like Tim Mahoney and Ron Klein have seized two long-time Republican bastions — the latter man having sent that ol’ dinosaur Clay Shaw off to the tar pits where he belongs. And you’ll be hearing a lot about those races during…
If you want to get the scoop from the ground on what’s happening in elections across the country today, check out this Washington Monthly site. The venerable publication has gotten a bunch of reporters, including yurs trouly, to post snippets and vignettes from their neck of the woods. It’s gonna…
This help wanted ad for editor of the Boston Phoenix made me feel ill. This is the second-oldest alternative weekly in the country and it wants its leader to emulate the “late night guys” on TV? Say it ain’t so. After the jump: What the Phoenix wants from its editor…
