Talk about changing the rules of the game. These are obviously frustrating, uncertain times for local officials trying to figure out budgets, priorities and protean property-tax scenarios, without the state Supreme Court messing with their tool box. In this case – Strand v. Escambia County, to be precise – the Florida Supremes have unanimously decided [...]
Brad Culpepper — of the personal injury law firm of Culpepper Kurland — is among the more successful, high-profile attorneys in Tampa Bay. That status derives, in part, from having been a pro football player for nine years – six of them as a starting defensive tackle for the Buccaneers. It also comes with having [...]
If only Hogan knew best. It’s obvious what 17-year-old Nick Bollea really needed. A normal life in the steadfast lane. Instead, he’s been living in his Hulkster dad’s fishbowl, VH1 reality-TV world; being home-schooled away from the masses; and having every opportunity to indulge an adrenaline-rush, fast-car fantasy. “My son, the aspiring, professional drift driver.” [...]
Andy Savage, the Charleston, S.C., attorney for Youssef Megahed, one of the two indicted USF students, recently complained that his Muslim client was the victim of profiling. That’s, of course, as much a prerogative as it is a public ploy. In do doing, Savage said this: “If this had been my son, if it was [...]
*Deja view: I’d like to see a promising future and a productive present when I look at the Bucs’ pricey, number one draft choice: defensive end Gaines Adams . Instead, I see Booker Reese. *Reality check: Finally, Jon Gruden has his kind of savvy, mobile quarterback in Jeff Garcia . He certainly underscored the obvious [...]
The University of Florida can’t get Tim Tebow back into the headlines soon enough. That First Amendment fiasco over the tasered student at the John Kerry lecture was a national embarrassment. UF’s campus police need to be trained to not handle a YouTube-yahoo provocateur as if he were a Danny Rolling clone. Arrest and get [...]
By any account, the Democrats have a leg up on next year’s presidential election. And by any recall, they are quite capable, if past is truly prologue, of screwing it up royally. The country, to be sure, is largely disillusioned and fed up with the war in Iraq, but demands protection in a world too [...]
The smack down between the Democratic National Committee and the state of Florida — over the Sunshine State’s Jan. 29 presidential primary date — only grows more contentious. Talk of voter disenfranchisement and the threat of a Democratic convention sans 210 Florida delegates has already resulted in a lawsuit. And pressured by the first-among-equals early [...]
A show of hands. Anyone else hang in there all the way for that colossal, overtime, Saturday night-morphs-into-Sunday morning, USF win at Auburn? Thought so. Let’s put that pulsating, nationally televised 26-23 victory for the ages into context. *Auburn’s been playing football since the game looked like rugby; USF’s been at it for a decade. [...]
Andy Savage, the Charleston, S.C., attorney for Youssef Megahed, one of the two indicted USF students, recently complained that his Muslim client was the victim of profiling. That’s, of course, as much a prerogative as it is a public ploy. In so doing, Savage said this: “If this had been my son, if it was [...]
