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Florida’s Catholic bishops repeated their plea for Gov. Rick Scott to call off the execution of Manuel Valle, the subject of Scott’s first death warrant . # Valle was convicted of the 1978 killing of a Coral Gables police officer, and first sentenced in 1981

Editor Cooper Levey-Baker (Pic by Cliff Roles ) Impact. It’s a word we at The Florida Independent throw around daily behind the scenes, but it’s not an idea we talk about much in public. Sure, it’s featured prominently in our statement of purpose ( to produce “news that impacts public debate and advances the common good” ), but in the daily What Have You Published in the Last 10 Minutes?

Friday, The Colorado Independent wrote about Al Gore’s Aspen speech , but we had technical difficulties in posting the audio. Those difficulties have been overcome, and you can listen here. Al Gore calls B.S

Last week the Michigan Supreme Court held hearings on the constitutionality of two budget proposals that amount to tax increases, one on high-earning state residents and the other on the pensions of former public employees. The new taxes were part of the budget for FY 2012

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday signaled that he may be willing to push back a vote on a climate bill until 2010. So, you know, we are

Greg Sargent spoke with CNN’s president Jonathan Klein about Lou Dobbs, and the demands from some liberal groups that Dobbs be punished for giving airtime and

Marc Caputo reports on the rumors of a Chamber of Commerce-sponsored poll in Florida that shows Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) slipping below the 50 percent line

Even more affluent consumers are failing to pay their mortgages and credit card bills on time, the Financial Times reports. JPMorganChase chief executive

Now it’s the life insurance industry’s turn for a bailout, The Wall Street Journal reports today. The Treasury Department has approved allowing life insurance

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) praised a proposal by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus that would dedicate a portion of fines imposed on BP from the oil spill to Gulf

A concentrated oil burn in the Gulf of Mexico, conducted in May 2010 (Pic by Deepwater Horizon Response, via Flickr) Sightings of a very large sheen of oil in the Gulf of Mexico have had coastal residents and fishermen worried for over a month. But in a statement issued yesterday, the Coast Guard says the sheen is not from BP’s now-capped Macondo well, which caused harm to both Florida’s environment and economy last year. Though the Coast Guard said video footage of BP’s Macondo well shows no new leakage, the company hasn’t been ruled out as a source of the sheen. In its statement, the Coast Guard floats the possibility that oil may be emanating from a riser pipe of the Transocean rig, whose explosion led to last year’s disaster

History just has a way of kicking Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) in the teeth. There the 2004 Democratic nominee was, in Kabul, two weeks ago, securing President

As Spencer just noted, it’s yet another day of strange and tumultuous proceedings, the five detainees charged with planning the 9/11 attacks withdrew their

At Talking Points Memo, Brian Beutler reports that Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) is not interested in raising taxes on households making more than $250,000 a year or

I have to admit: I didn’t think it would take less than a full working day for Taliban spokesmen to deny reports that Mullah Omar was willing to negotiate an

Three members of he Anoka-Hennepin School Board are up for reelection in 2011, and challengers have filed to run in two of those seats.

<p>Ann Lewis, a senior Clinton adviser, just told reporters on a conference call that the campaign took in $3 million over the internet in the 24 hours

Speaking of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he just published a blog post reiterating and expanding upon his commitment to repeal the ban on open

For the past week, The Road to Serfdom has been the number-one selling book on Amazon.com. Authored by the Austrian émigré economist F.A. Hayek and first

Sen. Mary Landrieu (La.), the moderate Democrat who’s been a loud critic of her party’s plan to create a public insurance option, is warming to the proposal,

At the end of a thoughtful post about National Intelligence Council Chairman Chas Freeman, Ezra Klein observes: But for Freeman’s detractors, a loss might

American physicists awoke from the New Year’s holidays to find that Congress had filched their stockings. Under pressure from Bush to make cross-the-board