Kent Sharples raids Daytona College fund to pay rock stars, Alex Sink is beating Scott, Obama is not as anti-business as he appears, Dali on “What’s My Line,” and much more.
The Live Wire
The Live Wire, September 23: Taj Mahals, Obama Shake-Ups and Gay Santas
Marco Rubio as Taj Mahal pasha, Mainland Coach Maronto resigns, police brutality on the elderly in Orlando, Harvey Firestein as gay Santa, septic tank emanations, Philip Roth on suicide, and more.
The Live Wire, Sept. 22: Senate Does in Gays (Again), Crist Does Disney
The Senate sticks it to gays in the military and to potential citizens, Charlie Crist’s Disney finances are murky, poverty as a conspiracy of fees, a firing at UF, and more.
The Live Wire, September 21: You Call This a Recovery?
False economic recovery, changing the rules of comp plan amendments, dead voters still active in Florida, how Florida wasted taxdollars in the stock-market, and more.
The Live Wire, Sept. 20: The Chamber of Commerce’s Ricky Scotty Hypocrisy
The Chamber of Commerce’s Scotty hypocrisy, Rick Scott’s fraudulent math, over 50 and facing permanent unemployment, madness at the Orlando Magic’s new arena, India’s prostitutes of god, and more.
The Live Wire Weekend Edition: Chief Chitwood’s Moron Moment
The Daytona police chief calls the Volusia sheriff a “moron,” Ginn defaults on another property, John Tanner enters the Daytona State College board follies, FedEx lays off in Lakeland and elsewhere–and raises its earnings outlook, and more.
The Live Wire: September 16, 2010
8 p.m. Update Live coverage of the Flagler Beach City Commission’s discussion on its next manager. Also: Competing congregations in Flagler Beach, but no demonstrations. Attention fired Bunnell cops: the Border Patrol is hiring. Florida is redistricting. NASA is going nowhere fast. Florida’s Energy Star program is hostage to GOP games. And more.
The Live Wire: September 15, 2010
1,000 Friends of Florida reverses course on the Hometown Democracy amendment, going “neutral”; Koran 101 at UF, why Palm Coast Data should worry, and more.
The Live Wire, Sept. 14: Cops Chase Drug Suspect Around Pine Lakes Parkway
Why you saw all those cop cars and flack-jacketed deputies around Pine Lakes Parkway this afternoon, Civil War reenactments coming to the Ag Museum, tripping seniors, scoping out bin Laden, and much more.
The Live Wire: September 13, 2010
Hurricane Igor update, UF’s drop to #10, an ad agency managing a state-funded pregnancy care system, the UF Alligator defends Koran-hating Terry Jones’s right to free speech, Florida is number 1 in corruption, and more.