Odds … and ends Four score and seven million years ago (OK, like a decade), in some front-of-the-book whimsy fit, Orlando Weekly decided to condense its seven-day news-blotter blurbathon into a thing with a voice and a hangover. The aggregation of said news ruminations – generally reported, but often spat upon at the same time […]

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Happytown

Sappytown: my last column for Orlando Weekly

Disney imports cheap overseas help to replace local workers because they can

Republican House defies logic and Medicaid expansion (again)

Rubio’s campaign has bigger issues than jokes about his days in an Osmond lip-syncing group

Orlando Magic owner Rich DeVos could learn something from Orlando City’s new privately funded stadium

Gov. Scott’s chair admits he has no idea what he’s doing with Healthcare Commission

Rick Scott and the icy makings of a Florida government shutdown

Somehow Gov. Rick Scott wants federal money for health care … but also doesn’t want federal money for health care

Here’s what was left unresolved when the Florida House called it quits three days early

After being sued to oblivion, Grooveshark finally bites it

Florida legislature passes 24 hour wait period for abortions

Though he hasn’t announced his candidacy, Jeb Bush raised a record amount in his first month of fundraising

Ivanhoe development project the Yard proceeds

President Obama to make Earth Day speech in the Everglades

Gov. Scott threatens to sue Obama over program he was informed would be canceled a year ago

Florida House passes adoption discrimination bill, cooler heads prevail in Senate UPDATED

The firing of two local daycare workers could violate Orange County’s human rights ordinance

Waves of homophobia are crashing through the Florida House in an effort to guise bigotry as religious freedom

Good night. And good luck.

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