6/28/2003
Lunching with the newsies
Drove over to the FSNE luncheon yesterday, which was very cool.
Heard Carl Hiaasen speak, and ran into Barbara Petersen of the Florida First Amendment Foundation who told me the bills I was wondering about all died quiet, ignominious deaths in the special session. Also ran into Joe Adams the congenial answer-guy on Florida public records law. (He's the author of The Florida Public Records Handbook.) He said nice things about Flablog even though I regularly heap good-natured ridicule on his paper's editorial page. (Oh my Gawd they even ran Ann Coulter's Joe-McCarthy-Was-A-Misunderstood-Patriot column!) And I told him I saw his Web page via Liz Donovan's very cool Infomaniac site and never got around to linking to it. So now I have, dammit.
Got a 2nd place award for the column. (Deep, deep, deep in the story.) It's an honor just to be mentioned by the academy.
Heard Carl Hiaasen speak, and ran into Barbara Petersen of the Florida First Amendment Foundation who told me the bills I was wondering about all died quiet, ignominious deaths in the special session. Also ran into Joe Adams the congenial answer-guy on Florida public records law. (He's the author of The Florida Public Records Handbook.) He said nice things about Flablog even though I regularly heap good-natured ridicule on his paper's editorial page. (Oh my Gawd they even ran Ann Coulter's Joe-McCarthy-Was-A-Misunderstood-Patriot column!) And I told him I saw his Web page via Liz Donovan's very cool Infomaniac site and never got around to linking to it. So now I have, dammit.
Got a 2nd place award for the column. (Deep, deep, deep in the story.) It's an honor just to be mentioned by the academy.
