LyteWorks is an elegant lighting fixture showroom on Manatee Ave. East in Bradenton, Florida. What you see here are three different types of embedded Flash players. The top one displays the still (thumbnail) the same size the video will play. The second (javascript rather than HTML) pops the player up larger than it show as [...]

Note: This is the (lightly edited) text of an email about the legislature’s current property tax relief efforts that I sent to my representatives this morning.
First, compared to other places I’ve lived, property taxes are not *that* high here. Not low, but not terrible, either, and we shouldn’t forget that Florida has no state [...]

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Tim Bannister, who owns Big Dog, does excellent landscape maintenance work at a very good price. Handyman and home repair stuff, too…

I got an email from grassroots@fladems.com inviting me to a $150 dinner with Nancy Pelosi in Hollywood, Florida, a 3.6 hour drive away from my home in Bradenton. $150? Isn’t that a little much for “grassroots” Democrats? And note that this event is being held in a hotel with a minimum room charge — after [...]