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Florida Legal Services, Inc. Tallahassee, Florida, (March 28, 2011) – Rosalie Whiley, a Florida citizen and taxpayer with disabilities, filed a petition today in the Florida Supreme Court challenging Governor Scott’s Executive Order 11-01. The Governor’s order suspends rulemaking by state agencies under his direction, creates a new governmental office, and transfers rulemaking powers from agency heads . . . → Read More: Florida Citizen Challenges Governor’s Executive Order 11-01 BY BRENDAN MCLAUGHLIN, ABC Action News TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The fundraising event was a fancy affair held for the benefit of Democratic Senator Bill Nelson at the Orlando home of philanthropist Alan Ginsburg. Vice President Joe Biden was the featured speaker. Orlando Sentinel reporter Scott Powers was designated as the single pool reporter for the event, but he . . . → Read More: Tallahassee reporter calls Rick Scott the most press-averse Governor in decades Sentinel reporter Scott Powers was made to wait in a storage closet last week during a private fundraiser attended by VP Joe Biden. BY BIANCA PRIETO, The Orlando Sentinel “Good Morning America” today aired an interview with Orlando Sentinel reporter Scott Powers about his unusual experience covering a fund-raising visit by Vice President Joe Biden. Powers, who was the . . . → Read More: ClosetGate: ‘Good Morning America’ interviews Sentinel reporter Orlando Sentinel: Novelist Carl Hiaasen fires away, especially at Rick Scott, politicians and DisneyThe novelist is coming to Orlando. His targets include Gov. Rick Scott, Tallahassee, Disney. BY HAL BOEDEKER Carl Hiaasen is a Florida treasure. His satirical novels have wowed critics, won loyal readers and resonated in an increasingly strange world. His columns for The Miami Herald amuse readers, stir debate and stun with their sharp wit. Hiaasen will be the . . . → Read More: Orlando Sentinel: Novelist Carl Hiaasen fires away, especially at Rick Scott, politicians and Disney A Miami photographer’s four days of captivity in Libya’s war zone, as told to his wife, a Miami Herald journalist. BY NANCY SAN MARTIN When I heard Joe’s voice, my heart ached from the inability to reach through the telephone line and put my arms around him. “I’m OK,” he said. Then we both fell silent as tears that had . . . → Read More: The Miami Herald: From terror to confusion to elation: held captive in Ghadafi’s Libya by The E.W. Scripps Company The Scripps Howard Foundation announced the winners of its annual Scripps Howard Awards, honoring the best work in the communications industry and journalism education in 2010. Established in 1953, the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Awards competition is open to U.S. news organizations and recognizes outstanding print, broadcast and online journalism in 16 . . . → Read More: Scripps Howard Awards honor nation’s best BY TIM NICKENS “GIVE AN INCH…” That was the sarcastic tweet last weekend by Brian Burgess, the communications director for Gov. Rick Scott. He complained about a Times/Herald Tallahassee bureau article describing how Scott’s selective release of information about large public pensions advances his political agenda. Burgess’ point: The poor governor gets criticized for not being transparent, creates a . . . → Read More: The St. Petersburg Times: The prince of darkness Open government contacts by agency can be found at flgov.com/open-government-contacts-by-agency. Agencies include the Executive Office of the Governor, the Office of the Attorney General, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the Office of Financial Regulation, the Agency for enterprise Information Technology, the Agency for Health Care Administration, the Agency for Persons with Disabilities, the Agency for . . . → Read More: Open government contacts by agency Included are two articles on Bob Woodward’s visit at the Poynter Institute. BY ERIC DEGGANS, St. Petersburg Times ST. PETERSBURG — In the age of Twitter, Facebook, 24-hour cable news and always-updated websites, people may feel they’re swimming in more data than ever about their world and how it works. But Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Bob Woodward — half of the . . . → Read More: Bob Woodward talks at Poynter Institute about modern media, investigative journalism The Art of Access: Strategies for Accessing Public Records is a blog by David Cuillier and Charles Davis that serves as a companion to the textbook of the same name, published by CQ Press. The authors have categorized the posts into access tips and different kinds of useful public documents, sorted by beat. They hope that over time this will . . . → Read More: The Art of Access: Freedom of information blog |
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