6/28/2003
What won / what lost
Sometimes a newspaper does it job best when it does no more than fulfill what I call its " almanac function." List tide times, who got arrested, tell you the time of sunset, list property transactions. They are first things that go when space is tight, but they're there because people find them useful. The Legislative equivalent is the win/loss list. Every year the St. Pete Times runs one of the better what passed/what didn't lists.
This has been a weird year, so they only got around to running it today. Most papers run something similar but in such a shortened form, it's not helpful. Because the budget overshadows everything else in the last days of the regular session, you often can't find out how things turned until this appears.
If you want to see how bad this Legislature could have been just look at the "what failed" list. Euewww!
This has been a weird year, so they only got around to running it today. Most papers run something similar but in such a shortened form, it's not helpful. Because the budget overshadows everything else in the last days of the regular session, you often can't find out how things turned until this appears.
If you want to see how bad this Legislature could have been just look at the "what failed" list. Euewww!
