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Here's your AM rundown of people, politics and policy in the Sunshine State.

Jay Cridlin, Malena Carollo and Romy Ellenbogen Tampa Bay Times CLEARWATER BEACH — A man whose body was found floating off of Clearwater Beach has been identified as Douglas A. Wright, a partner at powerhouse Tampa law firm Holland & Knight. The firm confirmed Monday that the body found Sunday was that of Wright, 60, the firm’s operations and finance partner. The medical examiner’s office has not determined a cause of death, but a statement from the firm said he died of a suspected heart attack while swimming. Police said that a Clearwater Fire and Rescue crew was called to retrieve a b...

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 5.6.21 Let’s start the morning with some great news about two really good people: Aly is a vice president of Accounts with On3PR, while Omar is deputy chief of staff to Speaker Chris Sprowls. — @NickConfessore: The fact that this private corporate administrative decision is being covered as something akin to a Supreme Court ruling — rightly so, I think — is the best illustration I can imagine of the sheer power Facebook has achieved over the public square — @BostonJoan: Imagine spending milli...

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 3.22.21 Here's your AM rundown of people, politics and policy in the Sunshine State. With the state government firmly in Republican control since the last century, Florida policymakers have been extremely friendly to free-market principles. At the same time, local governments decry the trend of state lawmakers passing so-called preemption bills, which the locals believe step on cherished home-rule principles of local democracy. That’s why it’s particularly shocking that some local governments in the Panhan...

Homebrewing away the pandemic days with kombucha How I learned to stop worrying and love the SCOBY.   A year ago, when the pandemic forced us all to work from home, each Tampa Bay Times reporter became chief of their own little bureau. As late-stage pandemic days trickle by, some of us have also become head brewers of our own kombucha taprooms. We line up our little bottles of booch, tinted purple and red and orange depending on the ingredients floating inside, and snap photos for one another. We swap Amazon links to glass jars and pH strips, and rank our favorite fruit and herb combinati...