The Political Whore

If you come straight to this blog you may have missed some of the changes to Creative Loafing’s website late Tuesday. We have a new home page that features the day’s top headlines from CL stories and others in local, state and national media, including the MSM and bloggers.

Throughout the day, my colleagues and I will feed the best news and political stories (and also art, music and other areas we cover) into this new home page (yes, it’s news aggregation or link journalism, take your pick), so be sure to check it out. Our goal is to be your alternative source for news that is important to us in Tampa Bay, either because it happens here or because it affects us all.

Part of the redesign is a new News section, also. If you just want to find out the most important political and public affairs news, this new section is for you. The day’s most important stories (from both this column and from other news sources) are refreshed throughout the day, new comments from this blog are featured and the best news videos appear at the bottom of the page.

Given those new features, I am no longer going to do Morning Roundup here, since the News section is essentially an All-Day Roundup. I will continue to feature videos, both funny and important, in this blog and hope to bring you a new Media Watch feature soon, reviewing the work of local and state media in covering our community and the Florida legislature.

We’re looking for feedback, so if you are inclined, please leave a comment here or click the comment ask at the top of the new Home Page. If there is something we’re missing or types of news you want featured, let us know. We made these changes for you, so let us know what information you need each day.

Finally, I’m happy to report that I’m going to add some new voices to this blog (and to our family of news blogs at CL). Soon, you will start seeing posts from Catherine Durkin Robinson, whose blog Out in Left Field, is billed as a place “Where parenting and politics meet, but don’t always play nice;” and Deborah Newell Tornello, better known in progressive blogging circles as Litbrit. They join guest blogger and east Hillsborough civic activist Kelly Cornelius, whose Fix It Now posts have run in Daily Loaf before moving to this blog earlier this year.

I am talking with several other prominent local bloggers to add them to either this blog or to a new blog at CL, so I will have other additions to share with you soon.

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