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Publix's New Digital Coupon Service Coming in March

Obsessed with saving money using coupons but aren't into the paper cuts from clipping or squinting at tiny ads on your smartphone? Lakeland-based Publix in March plans to roll out a new digital coupon service that will allow shoppers to preselect discounts on the company's website before heading to ... More >>

Is Charlie Crist Florida's Next Governor?

Danielle Harkins Accused of Helping St. Petersburg Teens Exorcise Demons by Cutting Each Other

A 35-year-old teacher from St. Petersburg's Lealman Asian Neighborhood Center was arrested yesterday on child-abuse charges after police say she convinced several teens to hurt each other to get rid of demons.Danielle Harkins is accused of gathering seven kids around a campfire near the St. Pet ... More >>

Rick Scott Promised to Create 700,000 Extra Jobs; Now He'll Smile and Pretend He Didn't

​One of Gov. Rick Scott's main talking points during his campaign was his "7-7-7" plan, which he said would create 700,000 jobs on top of the projected growth of 1 million Florida jobs by 2017.With the statewide unemployment rate staying at 10.7 percent for the third straight month, the state expe ... More >>

Rick Scott's Emails Magically Go Missing

Yeah, you can find those emails next to the Columbia/HCA memos. LOL!​Gov. Rick Scott loves to tout how open his office is to records requests -- never mind the outrageous price tag -- but it gets a little tough to acquire public records when they magically disappear.That's what happened to the ... More >>

President Obama Blamed for Stealing All of Marco Rubio's Internets

​Somebody call Al Gore.Sen. Marco Rubio's official website has been down for nearly an entire day, and the St. Petersburg Times thinks President Barack Obama is to blame.Obama asked last night that people call all of their legislators to ask them to find a compromise on all this debt-ceiling drama ... More >>

Tea Party Hates Manatees, Says Protecting Them Is "Against the Bible"

gatewaypundit.comManatees: Work of the devil.​Jesus apparently hated manatees, according to a new Tea Party platform circulating around Florida.Originating from the Citrus County Tea Party Patriots group, teabaggers are crying about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's intent to place restrictions ... More >>

Rick Scott Admits He Was in Colorado for Koch Brothers Retreat

I love Koch!​We finally have an answer as to where Gov. Rick Scott was this weekend, and it confirms our suspicion: at the billionaire Koch brothers' secret conference outside Vail, Colorado.St. Petersburg Times reporter Alex Leary got the information out of him, a day after the governor's spokesm ... More >>

Florida Republicans Crack Down On Voting

Nothing but trouble.​The Florida House passed a highly controversial overhaul of election laws on Thursday, which critics say would grossly undermine the fabric of democracy and help ensure a Republican victory in the 2012 election.Supporters of the legislation say that the changes would prevent v ... More >>

The Happiest Mugshot Ever! Old Guy Flashes Kids On His Birthday.

Jack Snyder​Thank goodness for Barbara Hijek -- a woman whose job is to keep us all abreast of "weird, wacky, strange news from the Sunshine State." Sometimes she tries to make light of things that are un-makelightofable, but sometimes she finds a little gem of a story without which, you realize m ... More >>

WTFlorida: 10 Reasons Why Florida is Better at Everything

Miche Ratto​Here in Florida we're really good at a lot of things. Topping the list we have: growing indoor marijuana, staging car accidents, and throwing children in jail. And boy are we good at all of those things.To learn more about the awesome state you live in click the image.

Poll: Plummeting Rick Scott Would Lose To Alex Sink Now That It Doesn't Matter

A group called Public Policy Polling (PPP) discovered the obvious: Floridians are having some dramatic buyer's remorse when it comes to electing fraudster Rick Scott as governor. A poll of 500 Floridians found that his approval rating from diehards remained about the same as a similar PPP poll ... More >>

Lost Your House? The Worst Is Yet To Come.

​Yesterday, the St. Petersburg Times published a terrifying little story that somebody should have written years ago, informing the Floridian public of the awful things that could befall them even after they've foreclosed on their tanking mortgages, and given their housekeys to the banks.The banks ... More >>

Beth Talabisco Gets Tough Judge in Imperato

Now-former Tamarac Mayor Beth Talabisco had more bad news when she learned who would be presiding over her case: Circuit Judge Cynthia Imperato, who has a reputation as one of the toughest judges on criminal defendants in Broward County. Imperato​Imperato is former police officer ... More >>

LeBron James Sparks Nasty War of Words Among Nation's Top Magazine Writers

​Never has the word dickwad been used with such eloquence. If you don't frequent the journalism aggregate website Gangrey.com, you are missing out on some of the best writing in the country (in addition to an occasional New Times story).But more recently, you've been missing a very entertaining (a ... More >>

Six Ways to Cook Iguana

​Now that the temperature has finally taken a dip, watch for dead iguanas falling out of trees!  (See photo, taken in Oakland Park last January.) South Florida's plague of big green lawn lizards was culled somewhat last winter by a cold snap that killed legions of the critters. The canal bank ... More >>

Eight Things You Didn't Know about Fake Reefer

​Fake pot, it's the new thing, sort of like real pot in the 60s, cocaine in the 80s, and heroine in the 90s -- not that any of those every actually receded from the landscape of mind-alteration. Recently, you may have read one of the ubiquitous "officials want to make this stuff illegal" news stor ... More >>

Marco Rubio Has Risen With Lightning Speed, but Conservatives Alone Can't Carry Him to the White House

Whistleblowers Like This One Needed to Clean Up South Florida Health-Care Industry

Flickr: Cine FanaticoAs Matt Damon proves, executive informants are glamorous! (The mustache is encouraged but not required.)​South Florida is arguably the health-care fraud capital of the U.S. There's so much fraud, it's hard to blame the crook who reasons that stealing merely a million dollars w ... More >>

A Program Every Floridian Should Watch (But Probably Won't)

That's the opening two minutes of an ambitious documentary premiering tonight on public television station, WPBT-2. It's called Imagining a New Florida, a more elegant title than Paradise Gone to Hell, which may be more appropriate.Of course, if the expert who says that Floridians are selfish transp ... More >>

Arrival of Police Gives Pothead the Munchies

FlickrPot's a good appetizer for a double cheeseburger, but it makes a rotten condiment.​Note to Fort Lauderdale native Samuel Collins: When trying to destroy the evidence of your marijuana habit, best to take the pot out of the baggie before devouring it with your double cheeseburger. From the St ... More >>

Joyce Kaufman Whips Publix's Butt Over Free Calendar

Note to Publix: Yeah, it's Islamic New Year. But it's also Tina's birthday.​WFTL's Joyce Kaufman is getting pretty good at managing political stunts. A couple of years ago she collected thousands of shoes to take to Washington to protest illegal immigration. That same year she switched parties - ... More >>

Jim Greer Resigning as Republican Party Chair

Flickr: E.S. HunterJim Greer with his wife at a 2008 Sarah Palin rally in Fort Myers ​In a Florida Republican Party in which Charlie Crist is a mere mortal, there can be no saving his handpicked party chair, Jim Greer. The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that Greer will resign his leadership post in ... More >>

Save the Cheerleader: Probation for Teen Who Committed Fatal Hit-and-Run

That's Jordan Valdez, who was a 16-year-old cheerleader driving her SUV home from practice through Tampa streets last February 8 when she struck and killed homeless woman, Melissa Sjostrom. Sjostrom's biological mother, Connie Wheeler, who lives in Fort Lauderdale, wanted Valdez to be charged as an ... More >>

Crist's Three Disciples: Men Closest to Governor All From Broward

LeMieux getting comfortable in the office Charlie scored for him.​Say this about young Broward County Republicans: They know a meal ticket when they see one. By my count, the three men who have the most crucial roles in getting Charlie Crist elected to the U.S. Senate are all from Broward.We know ... More >>

Kendrick Meek Campaign Suddenly Saddled With Electability Questions

Meek​The St. Petersburg Times and Miami Herald teamed up for an article in yesterday's editions that voiced concerns among Democrats that their leading senatorial candidate, Congressman Kendrick Meek, isn't "high-profile" enough to beat Charlie Crist. It's a strange moment to raise that question - ... More >>

Picture Tour of Terrorist Stops in Broward

​Last night, ABC's 20/20 aired a segment featuring an interview with Elie Assaad, the undercover operative who was working for the FBI to infiltrate a Miami-area mosque where agents believed terrorist plots were being hatched. In the interview (video hasn't been posted yet), Assaad tells of being ... More >>

Aaron Jackson Gets the St. Pete Times Treatment

​Though last night's Planting Peace fundraiser at the Bubble was canceled due to last-second scheduling conflicts, the charity's founder, Aaron Jackson, was in town from Haiti (where Planting Peace has several orphanages), and that gave me the opportunity to ask him about this ... More >>

During Broward Visit, Rubio Daydreams of Roller Coasters

Screen grab: Google MapsThe freeway view of Boomers in Dania Beach, from which a speeding Marco Rubio sent his latest Tweet.​Anyone got Shatner's number? Because isn't he the guy to call when looking to unlock the poetry contained within a true conservative's Twitter posts? So please channel the v ... More >>

FBI: Fort Lauderdale Developer Bribes Officials

Fort Lauderdale developer Sean Michaels is implicated in a corruption scandal in sleepy southern Levy County, Florida that has already led to several indictments, including W.S. "Sammy" Yearty, the dean of the county commission. A federal indictment shows that Mic ... More >>

Sentinel Reporter Hollis Taking Job With State Democrats

Florida Green Party Candidates Were GOP Moles, Suit Claims

DeGroot: The Wasteland Cometh

This Isn't Good News

Remembering Doris Mansour

Big Jim's Return?

Permalink

Harper's On Foley

Hastert Points to St. Pete Times

Tailpipe

Clam Up

GOPundit

Oft-quoted USF Prof Susan MacManus is neutral. Yeah, right.

Keepin' the Rabble Out

The Sun-Sentinel goes off the record for trains and buses

A Freestanding Fight

A hospital exec takes on the health care mafia and an ER deal involving an accused thief and a couple of insiders

Out with the Truth, the Epilogue

The mainstream media ruin a perfectly good debate

Liberté. Fraternité. No Way.

The Libertarians' slate is full this fall. So how come they're not out stumping for votes?

Undercurrents

Postcards From the Edge

Peace and quiet, great fishing, tax-free land. Welcome to the Everglades, where "hunt camps" are enjoying a new lease on life.

Postcards From the Edge

Peace and quiet, great fishing, tax-free land. Welcome to the Everglades, where "hunt camps" are enjoying a new lease on life.

Still Cruisin' For a Bruisin'

Despite drawing attention from numerous law-enforcement agencies, SunCruz is brazenly operating an illegal poker game

Blue Collar Hero