On regional water shortage: NOW you tell me again and again … Miami,Florida
By Gimleteye at 8 May, 2009, 6:11 am
Tom Friedman calls is “global weirding”: the changes in weather around the globe that add up to global warming signals. Being dry as a bone in south Florida is one of them. This is no ordinary drought; it is the third year of abnormally dry, dry weather. The Miami Herald reports on Read More
Read More >>Daily flu thermometer … Miami,Florida
By Gimleteye at 7 May, 2009, 5:34 am
Medical journalist Helen Branswell points to an excellent flu story on NPR this morning , to be broadcast on local public radio station WLRN . The speed with which scientists have been able to identify the possible agent of pandemic flu is unbelievable. Isn’t it interesting to think how Read More
Read More >>Daily flu thermometer … Miami,Florida
By Gimleteye at 6 May, 2009, 8:54 am
Helen Branswell, the top medical reporter on flu, changed her Twitter address to here . I have been using the increase in her followers to measure public interest in the new influenza; partly tongue in cheek in mask, but also in part to draw attention to the medical journalist from Canada who Read More
Read More >>Marco Rubio, for US Senate? … Miami,Florida
By Gimleteye at 5 May, 2009, 9:00 am
With former state House Speaker and Miamian Marco Rubio to announce his candidacy this morning , battle lines to be the next US Senator from Florida are being drawn. Within the Florida Republican Party. It is a interesting conflict, pitting the strain of extremist leadership– embodied by Read More
Read More >>Connecting the dots: on the Miami Herald’s tepid coverage of economic collapse and its political origins in Miami … Miami,Florida
By Gimleteye at 5 May, 2009, 7:00 am
Buried in the Editor’s Note in Business Monday in The Miami Herald, “When bubbles burst”: the editor reports of a business journalism conference in Denver and an underlying theme: “whether business journalists should have done more to warn the public of the dangers of Read More
Read More >>More on St. Stephen’s Church disaster in Coconut Grove … Miami,Florida
By Gimleteye at 4 May, 2009, 9:29 am
News from the site of the destruction of Miami’s St. Stephen’s Historic 1912 Church Building and Cloisters. This morning at 7AM, a handful of activists watched the destruction of St. Stephen’s Church. An observer requesting anonymity said, “The way they (The Related Read More
Read More >>Daily flu thermometer … Miami,Florida
By Gimleteye at 4 May, 2009, 6:46 am
The Helen Branswell twitter meter is slowing, only up 51%; a measure of increase of people following Branswell on Twitter . Branswell is the leading science journalist on flu. Over the weekend she had an astounding tweet: that the home belonging to the lead influenza official at the CDC had been Read More
Read More >>Daily flu thermometer … Miami,Florida
By Gimleteye at 2 May, 2009, 9:51 am
The Helen Branswell twitter meter is up 45%; a measure of increase of people following Branswell on Twitter from my first post on the subject. Branswell, who has been the best science journalist on flu in recent years, is quoted in an interesting St. Pete Times article, “Fast-paced flu Read More
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