Subject: Tallahassee

• Blitzen Trapper at Langerado

  March 10, 2008

• Video: Dead Prez at Rock the Bells 2008

  August 6, 2008

• Dan Gelber "Steps Back" From Senate Race

  The notion of any real divisive, state-wide primaries in Florida seems to be dead, as state Sen. Den Gelber has announced that he's "stepping back" from the US Senate Race. Which more or less means he's out. He made the annoncement on his blog: It makes little sense -- when we do face the prospect of real change in Florida -- for me to participate in a potentially divisive primary for U.S. Senate that will only serve to diminish our chances against a very formidable and well-known R

  June 1, 2009

• And What of The State Legislature?

  October 31, 2008

• Dems' "Empty Chair Charlie" Strategy Is Empty-Headed

  Florida Dems, let us share a bit of well-known advice that helped your national party unseat a seemingly unbeatable Republican incumbent back in '92: It's the economy, stupid. After re-electing party chairwoman Karen Thurman this weekend, the state Democrats vowed to continue their crusade against "Empty Chair Charlie." "We know that we hit a nerve with that," Thurman said to the AP. A nerve, really? Why, then, do Charlie Crist's approval numbers continue to be quite enviable? Why, then,

  December 22, 2008

• State Lawmakers Pull an All-Nighter at the BCS

  Things were really weird yesterday (Did you miss me? No? Oh,thanks.), and I ended up briefly at the Opa-locka Executive Airport before heading up to West Palm Beach, only to turn around and drive back to Miami. Anyway, the runway was busy with lots of bigwigs flying in for the BCS game. Bigwigs such as a pack of Republican state lawmakers from the Orlando area who flew in on a charter jet owned by a lobbyist. They supposedly paid their own way, though, but they didn't get back to Tallahassee u

  January 9, 2009

• Senate 2010: Kendrick Gets in Quick, Sink Still Has to Think

  Miami boy Kendrick Meek became the first official announced candidate for the 2010 Senate race, sure to be one of the most dramatic in the nation. As expected, he announced it this morning, and used much of the same "This is about Florida" rhetoric we commented about earlier. He's not taking things lightly, either -- he's already enlisted Barack Obama's deputy national campaign manager, Steve Hildebrand, to run his campaign. Meanwhile, CFO Alex Sink is still mulling over a possible run. As th

  January 13, 2009

• News Roundup

  In perhaps the most important news ever, Riptide and all its sister blogs got some work done. Everyone knows you've gotta go under the knife once in a while in this town to keep up.Obama promises to close Gitmo, sometime. No sure when, but he'll get around to it. [CBS4]Charlie Crist gets mixed mid-term marks from The Herald. [Naked Politics]Here's some news that global warming denial-ists are sure to take out of context: Florida actually had colder than average temperature in 2008. [NBC6]But wai

  January 12, 2009

• Aviary Interesting

  August 12, 1992

• Commissioners to Meet on Sex Offenders

  It has been almost two years since New Times exposed a disturbing, state-mandated colony of sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway. Since then, city commissioners have received dozens of angry letters, international news programs have aired footage, and the amount of banished men under the bridge has doubled. When it comes to state policy, though, zero has changed. Tomorrow, Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff promises to take a better-late-than-never approach by proposing a res

  February 11, 2009

• Yes, Those Are Slaves On The Steps of The Florida Capitol Today

  If you happen to wander by the Capitol on your daily stroll around Tallahassee today, yes, that is in fact a truck full of farm workers being beaten into unpaid slave labor right on the steps of the Florida Legislature.New Times photoHaitian farm workers in HomesteadA few months after the latest slavery bust in Immokalee -- where the despicable Navarette brothers earned 12-year prison terms for beating and caging unpaid, undocumented workers from Mexico and Guatemala --  farm workers' advoc

  March 9, 2009

• State Sen. Frederica Wilson Hopes To Move Her Hat Collection to DC

  Frederica Wilson and her extensive hat collection have pretty much done everything they can in Tallahassee. The Miami democrat has served in both houses of the State legislature, and now she's made it official that she'll be seeking the congressional seat Rep. Kendrick Meek is leaving behind in his quest for the Senate. As a Senator she's served as the Democratic whip, and the Minority Pro Tempore. And before her Tallahassee adventures, the Opa-Locka native served on the Miami-Dade School Bo

  March 9, 2009

• Bestiality May Actually Become Illegal

  still from The ShiningLet's take a look at Florida's laws. Gay marriage? Banned in the constitution. Gay adoption? Illegal. Bestiality? Technically legal. Yep, Florida is one of 16 states that doesn't ban inter-species sexual contact. Though, usually bestiality practitioners get charged with animal cruelty. Sen. Nan Rich (who will lead Democrats in the Senate come 2010) is finally pushing to put a law on the books. Today a Senate committee voted to make the act punishable with a third degree fe

  March 10, 2009

• The Week That Was

  The Herald started out its week on various death lists, cut 175 people (including one on her birthday), and left people questioning whether Miami will even have a daily paper anymore. Meanwhile, one of the paper's more infamous famous employees landed a job, because there is no justice in the world. Immigrant workers went to Tallahassee this week to protest. Wingnuts meanwhile protested Charlie Crist from the safety of their laptops. This is and ingenious burglary plot involving a foreclose

  March 13, 2009

• News Roundup

  LocalWhoops, cutting a deal with the black community sounded look a smooth move for Marlins Stadium supporters, but turns out it is unconstitutional. [Herald]The suitcase trial ended with a four year prison sentence for a Venezuelan businessman. [BBC]Here is a story about Puppies ...that die. It is a horrible thing to read to start of your day and will leave you with a permanent frowny face. [CBS4]Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Naugle. [CBS4]PoliticsHarvey Milk's nephew was protestin

  March 17, 2009

• Dialing Your Dollars

  July 13, 1995

• The Water's Fine!

  Or is it? With the budget ax hovering, we might never know.

  April 24, 2008

• Wait, Let Me Change Hats

  Senator Geller does costly deals but shuns the L word.

  April 10, 2008

• Gossip 101

  March 13, 2008

• State Senate Unanimously Votes To Raise Cigarette Tax

  Because people in Tallahassee are a collective mass of "dumb," they're still dealing with a giant budget crisis. So, they went the easiest route and started seriously discussing a $1 tax on each and every pack of cigarettes. They'll talk a good game, "Oh, this is to save people's lives, oh, what's that? Make them illegal then? No..." but really it's for money. Which will work until everyone is priced out of smoking, and then they'll have to legalize other sins to tax...Anyway. The Senate passed

  April 16, 2009

• The Cake Also Rises

  August 3, 2006

• Baby Calendar

  May 4, 2006

• BEST LOCAL POLITICIAN

  May 12, 2005

• A Tale of Two Menus

  November 4, 2004

• Letters from the Issue of May 6, 2004

  May 6, 2004

• Letters from the Issue of April 29, 2004

  April 29, 2004

• Welcome to Fabulous Tallahassee

  April 22, 2004

• Meet Mr. Arza

  March 25, 2004

• Flat Pigskin

  January 1, 2004

• Smaller Is Better

  May 8, 2003

• Barred for Life

  January 16, 2003

• The Carlos Lacasa File

  July 19, 2001

• New World, Old Woes

  March 15, 2001

• The Untold Story

  November 30, 2000

• The Children's Museum, Inc.

  October 12, 2000

• Better Lake Than Never?

  May 18, 2000

• Best Political Gamble

  May 11, 2000

• Best Uniforms

  May 11, 2000

• The Doctor is Out

  December 10, 1998

• Where's the Beach?

  August 29, 1996

• You Say Cemetery, Miami Says Deadbeat

  May 23, 1996

• A Major Bad Hair Day

  March 7, 1996

• No Butts?

  February 16, 1995

• Jail Bait

  August 11, 1993

• Hats The Musical Starring Senator Frederica Wilson

  State Senator Frederica Wilson has Practical hats. She has dramatical hats. She also has pragmatical hats, fanatical hats, oratorical hats, delphioracle hats, skeptical hats, dispeptical hats, romantical hats, pedantical hats, critical hats, parasitical hats, and so on and so forth.Herald/Times Tallahassee bureau just put up a 731 word article on her hats! Which is probably not as many words as Wilson has hats.Though, not everyone likes her hats, because not everyone is a wonderfu

  May 8, 2009

• Charlie Crist Expected To Announce Senate Bid Tomorrow

  In the past month the idea that Charlie Crist would run for Senate has gone from hot political rumor to almost foregone conclusion, and news broke this weekend that it is indeed fact. Republican Party of Florida chairman Jim Greer told the Pensacola News Journal last night that Crist will announce his candidacy on Tuesday in a low-key event in Tallahassee. The announcement will come with an immediate, and enviable batch of endorsements from state and national Republican officials. 

  May 11, 2009

• Eager Marcelo Llorente Declares 2012 County Mayor Aspirations

  via MarceloLlorente.comIf you're already tired of 2010 election news, well get ready for 2012. State Rep. Marcelo Llorente officially announced his intentions today to run for Mayor of Miami-Dade County. Currently Mayor Carlos Alavarez won't be vacating the position for more than three years, but it never hurts to get a head start. Llorente, a Cuban-American Republican has represented district 116 out in the Hammocks and parts of Kendall Lakes since 2002, a year after he graduated

  June 17, 2009

• Head Spins: DJ David Solano

  July 16, 2009

• Can You Smell What Fall is Cooking?

  September 3, 2009

• News Roundup

  In order to move forward on that wonderful "Slot Machines in the Airport" idea, the County Commission ok'd the Airport's pursuit of getting a horse racing permit. [SFBJ]Burn Notice star Jeffrey Donovan traveled to Tallahassee yesterday to ask that the government facilitate the filming of more television shows and moves in Florida and specifically Miami. [NBCMiami]Crime Stoppers always offer rewards for information in big cases, but one man claims that he never received his $250,000 pay out. [CBS

  November 4, 2009