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I think a lot of us would give up email if only because of spam: E-mail backlash moves workers to text, but we also need to think about the Florida Sunshine law. How do we keep records of text messages sent. There are ways, but we need to make it mandatory for all Florida government organizations.

In housing news: Orlando-area home sales post gains and Foreclosures still rising, but some see hope

Florida Southern College is named on the “best and most interesting” schools in the country: Book Ranks FSC Among Best Schools

This should come as no surprise to those involved with CSX and the FDOT: Railroad Info Meeting Underwhelms Audience

Drilling for oil on our coast will not help you get to work: Floridians Should Not Be Panicked Into Sacrificing Their Coast

A little bonus for today: USF Polytechnic Technology Incubator Needed in Downtown Lakeland

MI4 is taking tomorrow off. We’ll be back on Sunday with a two-day report.

If you read the regional news sites this morning you’ll learn that Governor Crist has asked his girlfriend to be his wife. That’s sweet. Good for them. I’ll be the first to wish them all the best.

If Crist doesn’t get the nod from John McCain to be his Vice President…I predict they will decide not to marry, but will “remain friends.”

The Florida Supreme Court gave Crist an engagement present: Florida’s high court busts Crist’s deal with Seminole casinos or Court Tosses Crist’s Deal On Casinos. That crazy court and their wacky gag gifts.

The Orlando Sentinel Optimism Award goes to the Sentinel itself today for a short throwaway statement in its editorial on the city’s bus system: We think: Lynx bus system needs to find more efficiencies to thrive

“Commuter rail? That will help. But it’s not pulling into the area until 2011, and once it arrives it will complement Lynx, not prove a substitute for it.”

Now, that’s an editorial board that sticks to its guns. No matter how bad they misfire.