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Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 5.11.21 Good Tuesday morning. Jared Rosenstein has joined its team of government affairs consultants. Rosenstein comes to the firm from the Florida Division of Emergency Management, where he served as legislative affairs director. “Jared fits our firm culture of hard work, a deep knowledge of issues, and attention to detail very well. He will undoubtedly provide top-notch government affairs services at the state level and before local governments in South Florida,” founding partner Ron LaFace, Jr. added. ...

Winners and losers emerging from the 2021 Legislative Session They all can't be winners. Here is the definitive list of who's up and who took a fall. The ending of a Session is never a surprise. It’s like harvest season. What you get at the end is the result of months, maybe even years of tilling, planting, watering, tending, and shepherding. Against the odds and despite many challenges, the 2021 Legislative Session ended on time. The House Speaker and the Senate President were together for the iconic dropping of the hankie. There weren’t any strained smiles or forced compliments. They st...

I’ve never been in a financial position where I could buy lots of expensive wine but I splurge now and then. The thought that there is a great wine out there that I haven’t tasted is nagging—an irritant, of course, that I will never be able to mitigate let alone ease. But increasingly I wonder if tasting great wines is the real aesthetic apotheosis of wine appreciation. Don’t get me wrong—drinking great wines is enjoyable and worth doing occasionally. But what great wines seldom give you is surprise. We know how they are supposed to taste and, if stored well, they usually deliver. M...

DAN BERGER If you parsed the world’s wine grapes into three categories based on widely acknowledged quality, a tiny percentage would be called “great,” a few would be very good, and the rest, in the many thousands, would be ordinary just or drinkable. The Hollywood connection Working for merchant Dennis Overstreet, Randall was exposed to common-grape greatness. And it was there that he drew connections to paradigmic enological history that only wine lovers of many decades experience ever see. Some never do. During his retailing days, he had access to classic example...

Schenectady Greenmarket goes outdoors a month early to big Sunday crowd | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0   A procession of customers ambled through the Schenectady Greenmarket’s first day of outdoor activity for spring and summer on Sunday. The strong turnout outside City Hall was indicative of the public’s growing comfort with outdoor crowds during the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers, vendors and customers seemed to agree. As the market bustled, a full complement of outdoor diners were a welcome sight for restaurants along Jay Street. “It’s not just us anymore down here, which is ...