TweetWhere have you gone Jon Stewart? A nation turns its clueless eyes to you. Woo, woo, woo. After shaming Congress and the media into action with a masterful “Daily Show” segment on the Zadroga Bill for 9/11 first responders last Thursday, Stewart and his team went on hiatus until the new year. With time running out to [...]

Tweet “Bryan Koon, director of emergency management at Wal-Mart Stores, will replace David Halstead as head of the division that since Hurricane Andrew has become a respected model of emergency response for the nation.” As head of Wal-Mart’s emergency response team, Koon oversees a network of emergency responders [?] led by 40 executives who watch [...]

TweetPublic relations doyenne Vivian Myrtetus,Gov. Charlie Crist‘s former spokeswoman, is setting up her own communications shop after leaving U.S. Sen. George LeMieux‘s office in Washington. Myrtetus worked on Crist’s campaign for governor and served in a variety of other PR posts in Florida government before going to work for LeMieux after Crist appointed him to fill in [...]

TweetTech Mahindra Ltd., partly owned by BT Group Plc., plans to acquire software companies in Latin America to help more than double sales in the next three years. Tech Mahindra aims to buy companies that write software codes for telecommunications, oil and gas and financial services industries, Vivek Kalra, a vice president, said in an interview [...]

TweetThe U.S. revoked the visa of President Hugo Chavez’s ambassador to Washington as part of a five-month diplomatic feud between the two countries. Bernardo Alvarez, who has overseen Venezuela’s stormy relations with the U.S. since 2003, was expelled after Chavez on Dec. 28 said he was ready for the U.S. to break off diplomatic ties, Venezuela’s [...]

TweetNo magazine cover shots this time: The White House banned reporters and photographers from taking shirtless pictures of President Obama while he snorkeled yesterday, an excursion that was part of his Hawaii vacation. According to The New York Times’ pool report, reporters traveling with the President were issued, “strict instructions that there would be no [...]

TweetAttorney General-Elect Pam Bondi today announced that Nick Cox will serve as Florida’s next statewide prosecutor. “Nick Cox is an accomplished courtroom lawyer with the ideal judgment, temperament, and experience to lead the Office of Statewide Prosecution,” Bondi said in a news release.  “I have known Nick for nearly two decades, and I have complete confidence in [...]

Tweet Bristol Palin — star of “Dancing With The Stars” and daughter of VP-candidate Sarah Palin — bought a home in Maricopa, Arizona. ShelterPop has the first pictures inside and out! No word whether this will be a winter home for the Alaska-native or if Bristol Palin will move to Arizona full-time. Either way she’ll [...]

TweetMARATHON, Fla. (AP) — Jimmy Carter has helped release a rehabilitated loggerhead sea turtle during a family vacation in the Florida Keys. The former president participated in the release of Danger, a 102-pound loggerhead turtle, into the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday. The turtle had spent three months at The Turtle Hospital. Carter also toured the [...]

TweetWhen he met President Obama at the White House earlier this month, legendary country singer Merle Haggard said he found him to be “very different” from the way he’s portrayed in the media: “Not conceited.” “He’s very humble about being the president of the United States, especially in comparison to some presidents we’ve had who [...]