(Washington, DC) – The daily political newspaper The Hill released its analysis of 2012 Florida races this week, and The Hill says that former Congressman and current Congressional candidate Alan Grayson (FL-9) is “heavily favored to win.” The Hill article explains that: “Redistricting in Florida created opportunities for Democrats, including a new seat in the [...]

(Winter Park, Florida) – Congressman John Mica will participate in several small business forums in cooperation with area local Chambers of Commerce. These sessions will focus on assistance that is available from federal, state, local and private sector resources that may aid individuals as well as new and existing businesses.  According to a release from [...]

  Self-Made Man Admiring his Creator. There are scarcely words to describe the emotion I felt when reading this revelation. How can the huge amount of hubris presented here not go unrewarded?   The great Greek tragedy writers Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes and others, put characters in plays with flaws of unweaning pride; destined for catastrophic [...]

(Sanford, Florida) – ABC News reports that Trayvon Martin, the black teenager who was shot and killed by George Zimmerman on Feb. 26, had drugs in his body on the night of his death: The autopsy report shows traces of the drug THC, which is found in marijuana, in Martin’s blood and urine. On the [...]

Bertram Yacht’s parent company is The Ferretti Group, one of the largest yacht manufacturers in the world. American yacht and boat building brand Bertram Yacht is relocating from Miami to a new facility in Merritt Island beginning in June. Bertram Yacht will relocate its key management and production employees to the new facility at 1230 [...]

  Endeavor to Persevere Today’s essay is dedicated to perseverance. Perseverance is not an elective in the modern world if you wish to succeed, it is a requirement. Apparently there are many out there who have elected to not persevere. Giving up has become a lifestyle, or as the Marines used to say of the [...]

(Orlando, Florida) In a statement released by the Kesse family, Jennifer Kesse will be turning 31 on Sunday, May 20, 2012 and the family is asking citizens to take action to keep the hope of Jennifer’s discovery front and center. Statement by Drew Kesse: “Joyce, Logan, Katie (Logan’s Bride to be on 5/26/2012) and I [...]

Special to the Phoenix Network By Michael Reagan Sheep and chickens. That’s what America’s greatest corporations have become. Whether it’s in California or nationally, it’s the same sad story. America’s best and biggest companies — the banks, the energy corporations, the computer giants — are refusing to stand up to the bully governments in Sacramento [...]

Special to the Phoenix Network by Jim Kouri Law Enforcement Examiner (New York, New York) – U.S. House Democrats are ignoring calls by Republican lawmakers for them to offer an apology to the New York City Police Department for backing an amendment that effectively rebuked the NYPD over its counterterrorism surveillance and investigative techniques. The [...]

People’s Republic of Long   Island   Every time I encounter an individual who complains   endlessly that corporations, businesses, banks, hospitals, you name it, are so   unfair and that the government needs to “do something about them” I am   astounded.   What in the whole history of time that human beings have [...]

(Orlando, Florida) – There are 12,100 federal government jobs in Orlando, which equals 10.2 percent of Orlando’s federal, state and local government workforce of 118,600. Orlando ranked No. 62 out of 100 metropolitan areas in federal government jobs, according to a new On Numbers analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics U.S. Bureau of Labor [...]

(Washington, DC) –Club for Growth has released a report based on its 2011 Congressional Scorecard focusing on the voting records of the so-called “Tea Party” freshmen Republican class of 2010. After a careful review to see if their records match their rhetoric, the Club for Growth has found that for many of the freshmen Republicans, [...]

Sweetie, Pass on the Sugar Some of those wonderful syllogisms my mom used to hurl at   me when I was growing up (not that I have completely attained that status as   yet) were so important for children to remember that they were repeated   endlessly for days and weeks on end until we (as [...]

(Orlando, FL) – Jim Duffy, Republican candidate for Orange County Tax Collector, has called into question Assistant Tax Collector, Kelly Goodwin’s choice of Greg Miller, an employee of the Tax Collector’s Office, as her campaign treasurer. Duffy, 39, says the choice of a Tax Collector’s Office employee as a campaign worker may suggest that Goodwin [...]

Special to the Phoenix Network by Jim Kouri Law Enforcement Examiner  (Neward, New Jersey) – The security breach at Newark Liberty International Airport reported on Tuesday, although troubling to many, was not the first serious lapse in aviation security and it probably won’t be the last to occur in a multi-billion dollar government enterprise, according [...]

(Tampa, Florida) – The University of South Florida University of South FloridaLatest from The Business JournalsTampa community development group names new CEOTyco spinoff ADT names Tech Data’s Bob Dutkowsky to boardTampa city leaders discuss transportation, jobs and livability with young professionalsFollow this company has launched a new Center for Strategic and Diplomatic Studies to unite [...]

Come out Saturday and Meet Katie Pavlich and   James   O’Keefe Most of you know, if you have been following my diatribe   about the Fast and Furious disaster Barack Obama foisted on the American   public in an effort to gain legislative control, through popular appeal, of   gun sales in the US; that Katie Pavlich has   written [...]

(Melbourne, Florida) – ThePeoplesVote.com is pleased to announce the release of an 11 minute video detailing all the major features of their Civic Engagement and Communication System in preparation of it’s national debut in July. This release follows a March 14th announcement that ThePeoplesVote.com will be launching it’s innovative online voting system nationwide on July [...]

(Tallahassee, Florida) – Backing away from a position it took a decade ago, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled that voters can impose term limits on county commissioners. Justices upheld term limits that Broward and Sarasota County residents placed on their commissioners in recent years. In doing so, the court also retreated from [...]

Experts Study Pitch Down Under What would you think of an experiment that has been going on for 75 years, closely watched by scientists (or whatever these guys might call themselves) trying to prove an arcane theory, of which most are just unfathomable enough that they continue to draw funding, and when the moment of [...]

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Special to the Phoenix Network byYael Ossowski of the Florida Watchdog Florida Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson will face the winner of the Republican Senate primary contest between Rep. Connie Mack and former Sen. George LeMieux. MIAMI — As a powerful member of the Senate Commerce, Finance and Intelligence committees and the former state treasurer of [...]

(Tallahassee, Florida) – Governments employ more than one-fifth of all workers in nine states and the District of Columbia, but only 14.9 percent of the Florida work force, a new On Numbers analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows. Of the Sunshine State’s 7,328,700 workers, 1,090,200 work for some type of government entity, [...]