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One down; three to go. Gov. Charlie Crist flubbed his first pick for the Florida Supreme Court, but he will get more chances to show that he represents all of the state's 18 million residents, not just those with a partisan cause.
In May, the Town Council watered down a plan to protect mobile-home residents from losing out to redevelopment. Council members rejected requiring mobile-home park owners who sell their land to contribute to a housing trust fund or subsidize tenants' rent for a time. Instead, the council approved a requirement that owners who sell their mobile-home parks provide tenants with a list of affordable homes within a five-mile area.
STRAIGHT TO THE POINT
In the recent past, an incumbent judge in Broward County whose term expired seldom drew opposition. That may be changing, but not in a good way. The three incumbent Hispanic judges on last week's ballot not only drew opposition, but all three were defeated. That's too bad -- and it is a loss for the Broward bench, which now counts only seven Hispanics among 88 full-time judges.
RACE FOR PRESIDENT
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Change is coming, change you can count on. That is the simple, central message from the two presidential nominating conventions held in Denver and St. Paul during the past two weeks.
POLITICIANS
The year was 1972, and an ad in Chicago Today (''Wanted: Writers. Flexible hours.'') led me to an upper floor of a building on LaSalle Street. I was 21, desperate for a job and wearing the Montgomery Ward suit I'd gotten for graduation. Before long, I was shaking hands with the president of Termpapers Inc., who hired me without bothering to look at the portfolio I brought along. That day, I accepted orders for a 15-page paper on Bantu education in Africa and a 10-pager on the Attica prison riot...
JOE LIEBERMAN
For 10 years, I had the privilege of serving as Sen. Joe Lieberman's chief of staff, until I left his office in 2003. I've been running through some of the senator's greatest hits during that decade.
VERBATIM
Below are excerpts from Josefina G. Carbonell's remarks recently at the Senior Corps at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Carbonell is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' assistant secretary for aging.
SARAH PALIN
You gotta love this campaign. No sooner does the curtain come crashing down on one climactic moment than up it goes on another. The Democrats choose NoDrama Obama and the channel switches to Soap Opera McCain. You want change? I'll show you change: Introducing Sarah Palin, a running mate as unfamiliar as the tundra.
Now that Barack Obama has selected Joe Biden as his vice presidential running mate and John McCain has tapped Sarah Palin as his, we know five definitive things about all four distinguished candidates:
TEAM METRO
At four events between March and May 2007, Team Metro coordinated citizenship events for the One Nation program. There were 6,000 applicants assisted, free of charge, in filling out applications for naturalization. They also were provided the photographs required.
MIAMI BEACH
With the economy so sluggish, I thought that the city of Miami Beach would be more welcoming to tourists and visitors. On Sunday, Aug. 24, I made an unusual trip to South Beach from my home in Palmetto Bay.
