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ABC News – This Week with George Stephanopoulos: This week, a health care roundtable will review President Obama’s address Wednesday night. The participants: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Senators John D. “Jay” Rockefeller, IV (D – WV) and Mary Landrieu (D – LA), and Governor Tim Pawlenty (R – MN). Then, followed by the regular [...]
Lots to talk about this weekend, as President Obama prepares for a speech before a joint session of Congress and America on the push for health care reform, plus a planned address to school students and the controveresy surrounding that. All that and the H1N1 flu, too. ABC News – This Week with George Stephanopoulos: A preview [...]
Orlando Sentinel: A Reputation At Risk – “That faint sound you hear is the truth about Ereck Plancher’s death. It’s finally trickling out almost a year and a half after the 19-year-old University of Central Florida freshman collapsed following an intense off-season workout supervised by Coach George O’Leary and his staff… UCF had six months to [...]
First, my apologies for anyone who missed the preview for last week. I took the weekend off. As one might imagine, many of the national chat shows will likely focus on the life and legacy of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, who lost his battle with cancer late Tuesday. But a bit of the conversation will also [...]
Daytona Beach News-Journal: So Long, Gov. Green, Vanishing In Political Smog – The newspaper laments the apparant reversal of Governor Charlie Crist’s activism from two years ago on enviromential issues, now that he is running for the U.S. Senate and seemingly needing to put up more of a radical conservative front to attract the Republican [...]
ABC News – This Week with George Stephanopoulos: . ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper fills in for George this weekend, and heads a special roundtable to discuss the news of the day. The panel features former Republican Party Chairman and Advisor to President George W. Bush Ed Gillespie, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, Atlantic Media Company [...]
The editorial pages along the I-4 Corridor this Sunday look at a wide range of issues, from the health care debate to space, from consumer protection to oil drilling. Here’s a summary: Tampa Tribune- A Fight At Every Level For Consumers: A call for the Hillsborough County Commission to reject a recommendation to eliminate the Consumer [...]
If you keep up with the Sunday chat shows and / or want to plan your watching before heading to church or other event, this weekly look check out who will be appearing on the various network (and one local) talk shows and what is expected to be discussed. ABC News – This Week with George [...]
There is plenty to talk about this weekend: The so-called “Beer Summit” Thursday evening at the White House, the continuing debate over health care reform, suggestions about our troops coming home from Iraq sooner than scheduled, and the ecomony leading the way. ABC NEWS / This Week with George Stephanopoulos: This weekend, two leading voices on the economy: Treasury Secretary [...]
As the debate over President Obama's health care reform plan heats up, with a decreasing likelihood that an agreement will be passed before Congress takes it's August recess, his surrogates and opponents will be all over the Sunday chat shows trying to make the American people better understand their point of view. There are a couple of different issues on the agenda here and there, so read on and check out where...
The Senate confirmation hearings for President Obama’s first United States Supreme Court justice candidate and his health care reform plan topped the news scene this week, so obviously those issues will take much of the discussion time on this weekend’s shows. Below are the details of who will appear, and who will ask the questions [...]
Tampa Tribune – Reducing Abuse Of State Pensions: “Few lawmakers have the stomach for it, but additional reforms do need to be made. Some workers have gamed the system by working huge amounts of overtime in their final few years to qualify for a much larger lifetime pension. That abuse should stop. Lawmakers should look into how [...]
As Congress returns to Washington this week, much of the talk this weekend will deal with analyzing President Obama’s performance to date, especially his discussions with Russa’s top officials and at the G-8 summit in Italy, as well as General Motors‘ future after leaving bankrupcy protection, the prospects of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor during her [...]
As a radio personality for 15 years here and in my native Mississippi, it is sad to see what has happened to the industry. We continue to see radio stations “going dark” (read: closing down) or make significant cuts in the amount of local programming and other services to it’s community. Let me say here that [...]
Bio: The short line? Father, husband, writer. My online presence is primarily through as the editor, writer, and occasional photographer for the news sites, Lakeland Local, a sampling of the news, concerns, and events for Lakeland, Florida, and Metro i4 News, which covers the Interstate 4 corridor in Central Florida. Both sites feature the work of myself and other contributors. As a hobby, I manage a forum and some web sites that feature a pulp fiction series written by Lester Dent -- Doc Savage Organized, Doc Savage Info, and Flearun.