"La la la la ... climate change doesn't exist," is the name of "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart's newest segment, which makes fun of Florida over the reported "ban" on using the term "climate change."
Early in March, the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting revealed that Florida officials were ordered to avoid using the terms"climate change" or "global warming" in official communications.
Gov. Rick Scott and officials quoted in the report have denied a policy banning the terms, but that…
SoBe Hostel was sold for $8.28 million, according to property records.
A company listed as owned by Jack Avid and Steven Oved, 235 Sobe Hospitality LLC, with a mailing address in New York bought the property at 235 Washington Ave. in Miami Beach this week.
The seller, South Beach Hostel LLC, is a company affiliated with Blue Road, based in Bay Harbour Islands.
The two-story, 8,933-square-foot building has 48 units with 38 available for guests, according to SoBe Hostel's website. It was previously…
Bank boards of directors are worried most about cyber security attacks.
That’s the key finding in a survey by Bank Director magazine. More than 80 percent of respondents said that this risk is a top concern. Last year, the same question had a 51 percent response.
Almost eight out of 10 banks increased cyber security budgets this year – and the average hike was in the 10 percent neighborhood, according to the 2015 Risk Practices Survey.
With all the money being invested into just cyber risk…
Although GOP leaders act as though climate change doesn't exist -- in red states like Florida even banning officials from even uttering the words (cf. Gov. Rick Scott), the GOP leadership is far from clueless on the issue, its reality and threat.
Their spin doctors provoke red meat voters to drumbeats like what a cold winter it's been in the Northeast, "Little Ice Ages", but that's to keep the Republican base boiling. GOP leaders can't avoid either the science or evidence of climate change.
Doing "something" about climate change is directly opposed to the interests of the GOP's key funders: polluting industries that depend on externalizing costs; whether damage to the atmosphere or using public waters as their sewage outfalls.
The problem for Republican leaders on climate change is the mismatch between the premise of limited government against the real, unlimited liability from climate change.
This post was written by Lisa Stone, author of Parenting Aces, a blog for parents whose children play tennis. Over the years, Lisa has chronicled her journey as a tennis enthusiast and mom through her son, a top junior player … Continued
In public, GOP leaders are climate change deniers. In private, they understand climate change perfectly well. The difference is that disclosure doesn't serve the party's purposes. Climate change denial -- against the backdrop of accumulating science and fact -- is like an electrical charge stimulating the Republican base.
Here are the GOP's ten commandments of climate change.
1) Climate change is like the weather: there is nothing we can do about it.
2) We are top predator. Others must adapt to us or die.
3) It doesn't matter if climate change is man-made: whatever happens is God's will.
4) Since our God in the only God, we know what is best for you.
5) As the party of limited government, any effort to strengthen environmental regulations is cutting our own throats.
6) As the party of capitalism, we are against any climate-driven protectionism unless it serves our interests.
7) If climate change requires subsidies, existing subsidies will be protected, first. Any additional subsidies will have to adapt to ours.
8) Dissenters on climate change are psychological deviants, to be dealt with and isolated from decision-making.
9) If there is a dispute on climate change between constituencies the GOP represents, the leadership will side with that person who who concentrates our political power.
10) We will adapt our behavior to impacts of climate change as they happen, not before.
Now, the three-bedroom property stands as a stubborn symbol of both a politically problematic friendship and lingering questions about Rubio’s personal finances, which dogged him on the campaign trail in 2010 and may do so again. The friendship has frayed in recent years, friends say, as the fortunes of Rubio, 43, and Rivera, 49, have diverged. Last week, they put the 1,228-square-foot house up for sale. The list price is $125,000 — $10,000 less than what the two men paid for it a decade ago.
But chances are the home won’t sell before April, when Rubio says he’ll decide whether to seek the presidency. Rubio’s critics are waiting to make hay of any revelations that may come of the federal investigation of Rivera and to point to their status as roommates during the years when Rivera allegedly engaged in illegal campaign activities.
"La la la la ... climate change doesn't exist," is the name of "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart's newest segment, which makes fun of Florida over the reported "ban" on using the term "climate change."
Early in March, the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting revealed that Florida officials were ordered to avoid using the terms"climate change" or "global warming" in official communications.
Gov. Rick Scott and officials quoted in the report have denied a policy banning the terms, but that…
SoBe Hostel was sold for $8.28 million, according to property records.
A company listed as owned by Jack Avid and Steven Oved, 235 Sobe Hospitality LLC, with a mailing address in New York bought the property at 235 Washington Ave. in Miami Beach this week.
The seller, South Beach Hostel LLC, is a company affiliated with Blue Road, based in Bay Harbour Islands.
The two-story, 8,933-square-foot building has 48 units with 38 available for guests, according to SoBe Hostel's website. It was previously…
Bank boards of directors are worried most about cyber security attacks.
That’s the key finding in a survey by Bank Director magazine. More than 80 percent of respondents said that this risk is a top concern. Last year, the same question had a 51 percent response.
Almost eight out of 10 banks increased cyber security budgets this year – and the average hike was in the 10 percent neighborhood, according to the 2015 Risk Practices Survey.
With all the money being invested into just cyber risk…
