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Welcome to headquarters. I am not sure how you found this place, but now that you have I have some important information that will not be found in your orientation packets. This ain’t gonna be your typical advice column that one would read in countless campus gazettes from coast to coast across this fine country.
On April 10, former Pennsylvania senator and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum announced from Gettysburg, Penn., that he would suspend his campaign for the Republican presidential candidate nomination. This sets up the “inevitable” general election in November between former Massachusetts Governor Willard Mitt Romney and sitting President Barack Hussein Obama. Regardless of what the Electoral
On April 6, the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays squared off against the New York Yankees on Opening Day. (The first Major League game I remember that I attended was when the D-Rays played against the Seattle Mariners, back when Tampa Bay still wore purple. Plus I played on the D-Rays in Babe Ruth—they will always
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 over an eyebrow raising six-and-a-half hours, spaced over three days. Since this has gone to press, the justices of the high court have already “cast their votes,” are in the process of writing their respective opinions
Sanford, Seminole County, Florida. If one has been watching MSNBC, or I reckon any other cable news channel, then one is familiar with the recent tragic event that occurred in that fine city. Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by 28-year-old George Zimmerman. Martin, black; Zimmerman, white. Zimmerman was questioned by the Sanford Police
There is an important political reform that nobody knows about, said Douglas Amy of Mount Holyoke College during a guest lecture in Harbor Hall on March 21. Amy’s argument is the current system of having small local districts electing a single member to represent them in Washington is flawed. The current system, while there is
Water needs to be part of the public dialogue, say organizers of an event that combines the arts with a discussion of water policy. The Florida Studies Program will host “Water in Florida: Environmental Humanities Meet Public Policy” on Friday, March 30. Christopher Meindl, the director of the FSP and the moderator for the night,
There has been a lot of recent hope and praise for the future of electric motor vehicles. President Barack Obama has said that when he gets out of office in “four and a half years” that he will purchase and drive a Chevrolet Volt. I am in favor of alternatives to gasoline-powered automobiles and our
In the middle of the 1990s the Florida Republican Party took control of the Senate through democratic means—this was not a repeat of Natural Bridge in 1865—and in the next election took control of the House for the first time since Reconstruction, close to 120 years. The recommendations of the 1998 Constitutional Revision Commission that
Typical Tallahassee wheeling and dealing allowed for language to be written into the Senate’s version of the budget for the University of South Florida Polytechnic, located in picturesque Lakeland, to become the State University System of Florida’s 12th independent university. The Board of Governors, the state agency charged with overseeing SUSF, agreed (unfortunately) to a
