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Thanks for visiting. On a semi-daily basis we scan Florida's major daily newspapers for significant Florida political news and punditry. We also review the editorial pages and political columnists/pundits for Florida political commentary. The papers we review include: the Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, Palm Beach Post, Naples News, Sarasota Herald Tribune, St Pete Times, Tampa Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Tallahassee Democrat, and, occasionally, the Florida Times Union; we also review the political news blogs associated with these newspapers.

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Not that we don't provide spin; we do, and plenty of it. Our perspective appears in post headlines, the subtitles within the post (in bold), and the excerpts from the linked stories we select to quote; we also occasionally provide other links and commentary about certain stories. While our bias should be immediately apparent to any reader, we nevertheless attempt to link to every article, column or editorial about Florida politics in every major online Florida newspaper.

 

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The Blog for Sunday, June 26, 2005

Around Florida Blog-World

    One of my favorite new blogs, FloridaBlues, has this on the DSM today.

    And we're lucky to have Bark Bark Woof Woof (don't let the name fool you) for things like this. Likewise for South of the Suwanee's roundup of editorial coverage of Kelo; The Day Shift also gives us this thought: "Your property is worth whatever Wal-Mart says it’s worth". And if you haven't tasted the cool Pensito Review, you're missing something (it's pretty too); try this piece on Katherine.

    Professor Harrison, who we are lucky to have molding the minds of Florida's would-be-lawyers. hasn't posted in a while. Let's give him some encouragement over at Class Bias in Higher Education.

    And where the heck is Blunted on Reality (or dred for that matter)? Not going the way of the beloved Blog De Leon I hope (I refuse to remove that site from the blog roll in the hope it will return).

    If you haven't checked out the fun Situation Room, you ought to.; Flablog rightfully describes it as a "subverblog". That blog, like the venerable Anger Management and newish Spitfire's Grill focusses a bit more on the national scene.

    Pensacola Beach Blog is just, well ... cool.

    IndependentReport.org has the lowdown on "Jeb Bush and cheap attacks". This is an excellent site.

    Florida originals: Somewhere on A1A. The same is true of Last Day of my Life and Infomaniac.

    Eclecticism is the name of the game at hatless.com, Sticks of Fire, and SpaceCoastWeb.com. Check out the latter's "Patriotism and the politicization of a national tragedy".

    And isn't Poor Richard's Anorak precisely what a blog is supposed to be?

    Discourse.net and Abstract Appeal give us the lawyers' perspective (I suppose someone has to).

    The gainesville report and AlachuaPolitix are, despite the titles, much broader in scope.

    Republicans are people too ... well, at least some of them: Peer Review and Truth or Death.

    How can you resist a site named Political Bloviation.

    Finally, Florida Politix. Simply one of the best new blogs out there.

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