This Week's Hero: Anderson Cooper

CNN’s Anderson Cooper may be half-celebrity-half-journalist, but last week he proved his better half is all newsman.

Attorney General Bill McCollum told some 500 business leaders and water experts in Orlando Friday that he has a specific plan -- in fact, a two-pronged policy initative -- for keeping groundwater flowing in Florida.

Charlie Crist isn't helping a cynical America trust its politicians.

Certainly, he's not helping me.

I learned nine years ago, when he was education commissioner, when he stood in front of a roomful of teachers and promised them they would be making "six-figure salaries" by the end of the decade, that the man will say or do anything to win the moment.

The South Florida Water Management District faces a defining vote at its meeting this week, one that could bring the agency to the fiscal brink and force an increase in property taxes for homeowners in 16 South Florida counties.