Public Enemy Number 1

Public Enemy Number 1

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Kelli Stargel's only Florida Poly performance eval reads like a preschooler's report card
Two days after I reported on her empty work calendar in 2023, Poly certified that Kelli made no progress on performance goals that don't exist. But she…
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“I will plan winning the war; and you plan a new world” -- an Easter chapter of "A Man or a Mother"
In June 1942, the war was going badly for the good guys. But resistance, rebirth, and a new world beckoned. Kate Walton and Marjorie Rawlings would…
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Piccolo's persistent penis stalks women and storms Richard Corcoran's ivory tower: a timeline and questions
Piccolo had a publicly known penis problem when Corcoran hired his friend and longtime personal troll. Why did it take *four* penis-related arrests for…
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Bone Valley 2 is the 11th most listened podcast in America (and most popular limited story)
The story of Lakeland and Polk County's selfish leadership and institutional/justice dysfunction in the Leo Schofield case is right up there with Joe…
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“The rubbish of the dark ages” - this week's chapter of "A Man or a Mother"
Kate Walton's mentor invokes Jeremiah Black, destroyer of Reconstruction, who argued stirringly from the grave that Nazi saboteurs (but not black…
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Bone Valley 2: "Leo ended up taking the hit for my dad"
Jeremy Scott's son finds human connection to the father/murderer he never knew by honoring his debt of life to wrongly convicted Leo Schofield. Beauty…
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Don't turn the Ringling into Corcoran's own private White Lotus
We already pay for this incompetent grifter's absurd salary and cigar room overlooking Sarasota Bay. Don't inflict his smoke damage and booze spills and…
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Florida Poly's tiny endowment is even funnier than its awful graduation rate
Unqualified Kelli Stargel (at $220K) makes almost 4% the value of her college’s endowment as the Vice President in charge of the “Office of…
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The (small and betrayed) German invasion of the First Coast -- this week's chapter of "A Man or a Mother"
On June 28, 1942, war-rattled Americans awoke to J. Edgar Hoover's terrifying narrative: the FBI had single-handedly thwarted a small German invasion…
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War zone good life during the Atlantic Pearl Harbor -- this week's (belated) "Man or a Mother" chapter
The publication of "Cross Creek," the face-to-face confrontation that launched the lawsuit, and the lethal German submarine war all hit St. Augustine at…
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March 2025

Leo Schofield prosecutors admit they can't produce any evidence of a "fresh, in-depth review"
Surprise!! There is no public record of the review Brian Haas bragged about to the Tampa Bay Times. Laugh at these weak, feeble people. But remember…
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“Could kill a [klans]man without a tremor” –of Kate Walton, Rep. Lex Green, and the New Deal
In this Sunday's chapter of "A Man or a Mother," the mother of Florida's right to privacy wants to join the war effort, but runs into J. Edgar Hoover…
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