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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, September 11, 2005

It Ain't Exactly Clear ...

    to me that Florida's "plans" for a major hurricane are any more well developed - or more likely to succeed - than those in Mississippi and Louisiana:
    Known as Contra-Flow, the plan is similar to that used to evacuate New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina. It would take the threat of an approaching Category 4 or 5 hurricane and a direct order from the governor to reroute turnpike traffic from Fort Pierce to Orlando. Tow trucks and emergency vehicles would be stationed along the way to help motorists. ...

    The state actually developed the Contra-Flow plan after Hurricane Andrew in 1992 but did not release the details to the public. Last year's quartet of hurricanes made the case for educating people about how a major evacuation might work. The issue has come into sharper focus with the examination into whether New Orleans could have gotten more people out of the city. Exactly how well mass evacuation would work here remains less of a certainty than an open question the state hopes it never has to answer.
    "Mass coastal evacuation may work only in theory".

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