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Posted November 8, 2020 11:59 pm | Op-Ed
After four years of racism, misogyny and
narcissism in the White House, we look
forward to a dignified, honest leader who
might restore a level of respect for the
office and for our nation.
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Posted October 27, 2020 08:58 am | Op-Ed
One lesson that the COVID-19 pandemic and
the ensuing global economic recession have
taught us: we live in a world so
interconnected and interdependent it has
effectively become a single organism.
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Posted September 17, 2020 02:45 am | Op-Ed
The Multiuse Corridors of Regional Economic
Significance (M-CORES) program seeks to
create 330 new miles of toll roads through
some of our best remaining natural and rural
areas. Beginning with the passage of SB7068
in 2019, it has represented bad government
from the start and threatens to destroy what
makes our state special.
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Posted August 24, 2020 3:30 pm | Op-Ed
As
Floridians endure a public health crisis
that has resulted in a 10.4% unemployment
rate and grave economic uncertainty,
Governor Ron DeSantis has slashed more than
$1 billion from the 2020-2021 state budget.
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Posted July 23, 2020 06:15 am
Ten weeks before a white policeman killed George
Floyd on a Minneapolis street three white officers
wearing plain clothes bashed down the Louisville door of
another Black American, Breonna Taylor. A “no-knock"
warrant tied to a drug investigation permitted their
forced entry.
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Posted March 27, 2020 04:25 pm | Op-Ed
It seems like some folks have used the ghost of
Ernesto “Ché” Guevara as their guide through the
COVID-19 epidemic in the United States.
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Posted April 13, 2020 05:15 am | Op-Ed
17,961: the number of positive Covid-19 cases in
Florida as of Friday, April 10. 438: the
number of deaths in Florida as of April 10.
Columbia County has 24 positive cases with 4
hospitalizations. Those numbers give us reason
to pause.
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Posted March 23, 2020 01:40 pm | Op-Ed
The health professionals working day and night
to care for an ever increasing number of sick
patients make me proud to be a doctor. And kudos
to the grocery store workers, postal workers,
police and many others who are performing
essential jobs with a smile.
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Posted
March 18, 2020 03:15 pm | Op-Ed
Some of the
views expressed here are controversial. So, do
ask your doctor. I hope you have one—not just
the HMO or retail clinic “provider.”
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Posted
January 28, 2020 11:45 pm | Op-Ed
MIAMI, FL – Stop Child Predators, a
national child safety advocacy group, is
raising concerns with the expected increased
usage of short-term vacation rentals during
the Super Bowl. We are warning parents in
the Greater Miami area to take extra
precautions to keep their children safe.
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Posted January 3, 2020 07:00 am | Op-Ed
America is a hellscape of idiocy and grift and has
been since the crazy SOB in the White House began his
tenure by lying about the size of his inauguration
crowd.
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Posted November 10, 2019 08:30 am | Op-Ed
Starting as Armistice Day, celebrated for the
first time November 11, 1919, the first
anniversary of the end of World War I in 1918 is
what we now call Veterans Day. It is the
observance of thanks to those who have served
military duty.
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Posted September 22, 2019 09:45 am | Op-Ed
Along 23 miles of the lower Santa Fe River are
nearly 50 springs, which flow up from the
limestone karst. Historically, there were lush
meadows of underwater grasses on which the
turtles fed.
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Posted August 11, 2019 11:45 am | Op-Ed
There are some
things we should not have to discuss with our
kids – ever. Sunday, August 4, was one of the
hardest days we have had. We tried to process
the atrocity of three mass shootings in 24
hours.
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Posted April 2, 2019 09:55 am | Op-Ed
TALLAHASSEE, FL – Lawmakers latest legislative
attack on a citizen’s right to direct democracy
is moving quickly through the Florida
Legislature. This anti-democratic legislative
effort would make it harder for citizens to
amend the constitution by ballot initiative.
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Posted February 23, 2018 11:20 pm | Op-Ed
Dr.
King wisely noted that nonviolence seeks to
defeat injustice, not people. It is not about
retri
bution, but about so dramatizing the
injustices that genuine change can occur.
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Posted
January 30, 2019 05:55 pm | Op-Ed
A December upsurge of raw sewage spills from the city
of Valdosta, Georgia has a dozen downstream counties
organized into a Task Force demanding action from
Florida state legislators.
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Posted January 8, 2019 02:15 pm | Op-Ed
TALLAHASSEE,
FL – Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to tout a
“bold vision for a brighter future” at his
inauguration. What he is unlikely to mention is
that due to the outsized political influence on
the nominating process he will be remaking the
Florida Supreme Court with no African American
representation for the first time in decades.
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Posted December 16, 2018 12:30 pm | Op-Ed
LAKE MARY, FL – On Friday night, Federal
District Court Judge Reed O’Connor struck down
the entire Affordable Care Act in Texas v. Azar,
claiming the law was unconstitutional.
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Posted November 28, 2018 03:00 am | Op-Ed
Marion Hammer will continue to command influence
over the craven new governor and both its
cowardly Republican senators. But Florida is
changing. In the wake of the shootings at the
Pulse night club, the high school in Parkland,
the yoga studio in Tallahassee, and all the
other senseless murders carried out by
rage-driven gun freaks, she may find herself on
the outside.
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Posted
November 20, 2018 08:30 pm |Op-Ed
Everyone
needs to demand the same treatment from those
few counties which failed to provide their
voters and candidates with the same level of
confidence that was provided by Columbia
County’s officials and citizen volunteers.
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Posted November 11, 2018 03 pm| Op-Ed
As both an anthropologist and educator, what is
astonishing for me is the level of racist discourse
promoted by President Trump and his administration
against hapless refugees and the so-called threat they
pose. Immigrants, as a major threat to the security of
the nation is hyped-up racist rhetoric and completely
false.
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Posted October 31, 2018 11:30 am | Op-Ed
The narrative appears to be that thousands of
oppressed peoples spontaneously decided, all at
once, to flee a murderous, corrupt government in
Central America, and walk to the U.S., in time
for election day, to plead for asylum and begin
to work hard for a better life in the U.S.
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October 28,
2018 02:00 am | Op-Ed
To save our
most valuable resource we must act wisely
and quickly. In November, we have the
opportunity to begin to turn things around.
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Posted
October 1, 2018 08:50 am
The path to
having their voting rights restored has been
found unconstitutional by a federal judge. The
problem with Amendment 4 is that it perpetuates
the discrimination and bigotry of
disenfranchisement against a subclass of
ex-felons – those convicted of murder or sex
crimes.
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Posted
September 17, 2018 10:58 am | Op-Ed
Like the
chicken-hawks of the sixties, it is time
Candidate for Governor Ron DeSantis stepped up
to the plate. If he doesn't, he may discover
that this time around, Florida
voters are not as stupid as he thinks. While he
parades around in the body of a duck, on
Election Day, people may decide they don't want
a governor with the "Heart of a Chicken."
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Posted September 14, 2018 12:14 pm | Op-Ed
“No Scheduled Events.” Day after day, that’s the schedule sent out by Gov.
Rick Scott as he travels the state campaigning for the
U.S. Senate. No governor in modern times has been as secretive
about his whereabouts or the company he keeps.
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Posted September 10, 2018 09:15 am | Op-Ed
Despite
the soaring costs of attending American colleges and
universities, students are receiving an education that
falls far short of the one experienced by earlier
generations.
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Posted July
30, 2018 11:10 am | Op-Ed
While I
support local news coverage, I share the
belief with many of a growing deception of
news coverage to advance personal opinion,
which if we desired, we would seek
individually and not be forced to cough
up $1.00 under the guise of news.
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Posted July 6, 2018 08:30 am | Op-Ed
It’s
hard to imagine a presidential administration
that hates women more than the current one. Not
only has the President himself faced numerous
sexual assault allegations and been caught on
camera and in debates making derogatory and
repulsive comments about...
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Posted July 4, 2018 01:30 am | Op-Ed
As historians dig deeper into the particulars of
American colonists’ campaigns against British
exploitation, imperiousness, and particularly the
oppressive taxation and regulation of the 18th century,
they are finding that our vaunted American Revolution
was not the 1775-1783 shooting war, but that the decade
of nonviolent resistance from 1765-1775 had already
achieved revolutionary change.
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Posted June 27, 2018 01:35 pm | Op-Ed
When I saw media reports that Melania Trump had
not been seen for 20-some days, I started
thinking again about the Constitution, the
Pardon Power and the nature of the rule of law.
Such are modern times. What if Trump did it?
What if he had offed Melania?”
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May 28, 2018 12:50
pm | Op-Ed
Every CIA agent, as well as all other US
Government agents and State Officers, is
required to take an oath to defend the
Constitution. Preserving and protecting the
supreme law is supposed to be “Job One.”
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Posted May 24, 2018 10:30 am | Op-Ed
It
is infuriating to write what feels like the same
piece multiple times, in way too rapid
succession, but here we go again: a shooting, a
white male perpetrator, a rejection, and
victim-blaming.
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Posted May 20, 2018 107:30 am | Op-Ed
Not to compare the evil of the European
Holocaust with the CIA rendition and torture (as
if evil could be measured by quantity), but the
evasions and obfuscations of these two willing
technicians of state terror are chillingly
similar.
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Posted May 18, 2018 01:30 pm | Op-Ed
I and other residents have asked the County
Commission to allow the County’s residents to
send a message to the legislature regarding the
dissolving of the Lake Shore Hospital Authority,
a countywide independent special district that
has lost his way.
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April 17, 2018 01:45 pm | Op-Ed
April
16th begins a week of National Healthcare
Decisions Day. Hopefully this week will
encourage honest discussions not only about a
so-called “good death” but the value of an
individual’s life.
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Posted March 20, 2018 08:05 am | Op-Ed
TALLAHASSEE – Today, Floridians for Reproductive
Freedom denounced Gov. Rick Scott and
legislative leaders after Governor Scott signed
House Bill 41, which legitimizes and permanently
funds fake clinics that use medically inaccurate
information to oppose abortion and mislead
women.
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Posted March 17, 2018 11:00 pm | Op-Ed
We know that the niceties of life are vital.
These things are all part and parcel of my
southern heritage. I also know a thing or two
about the South’s relationship with racism. I am
ashamed that our confederate past is still a
part of the South’s present.
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Posted February
16, 2018 12:35 pm | Op-Ed
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Another
senseless act of gun violence, another mass
shooting, has gripped the country and the
world's attention. This weekend Columbia
County again celebrates the victory of the
South over the North at its annual Olustee
Festival and Battle Reenactment. The
Columbia County 5, and the community's
leaders, can still call for a cease fire at
this year's Olustee Battle Reenactment and
recognition that the sounds of gun fire...
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Posted Jan. 3, 2018 07:35 am | Op-Ed
Florida is in the midst of an affordable housing
crisis. Unfortunately, our governor and state
lawmakers are only making matters worse.
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Posted Dec. 6, 2017 05:25 am | Op-Ed
November 25th
kicked off the annual
16 Days of Activism against Gender-based
Violence. At no time has this work been
more necessary than now. From rampant sexual
harassment to sexual assault, domestic violence
and sexual trafficking, women across the globe
and in the U.S face gender-based violence at
horrifying rates.
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Posted November 4, 2017 08:05 am | Op-Ed
We have an aggressive strategic plan to continue
to move the college forward. A 15%
increase in enrollment is just the beginning.
Look for additional academic workforce programs,
new sports programs, new transfer articulation
programs to other schools, and much, much more.
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Posted November 1, 2017 01:30 am | Op-Ed
Given
the large number of such exemptions and the
authority of the Legislature to create new
exemptions to protect sensitive personal
information, the exact purpose of Proposal 22
isn't clear - other than to allow sweeping
revisions of existing disclosure laws.
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Oct. 22, 2017 02:30 am | Op-Ed
The
City and County should want to spend tax-payer
dollars with efficiency and an eye towards
future growth and the revitalization of
downtown.
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Sept. 28, 2017 06:40 am | Op-Ed
Patriotism
is not the exclusive property of any one group.
Showing real devotion to this country takes more
than waving a flag and snarling at someone who
doesn’t. It starts with understanding what this
nation is supposed to be about.
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Sept. 19, 2017 09:05 am | Op-Ed
Hurricane
Irma rammed home the point that Floridians need
leaders to provide more than a mop to deal with
the damage and misery these mega-storms bring.
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Sept. 15, 2017 08:30 am | Op-Ed
Of
all the heartbreak and damage wrought by
Hurricane Irma, nothing is worse than the deaths
of eight elderly residents, aged 71 to 99, at a
Hollywood Hills rehabilitation center. It’s an
outrage. It’s horrifying. It left people
sputtering with anger and officials on the trail
to find answers.
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September 1, 2017 03:45 am | Op-Ed
House
Speaker Richard Corcoran has put 12 tourism
development agencies throughout Florida on
notice that they better have an accurate and
public accounting of how they spend taxpayer
dollars — and quickly. That includes big ones in
Miami, Orlando and Tampa Bay.
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August 29, 2017 03:10 pm | Op-Ed
We read with great interest your comments in
the Orlando Sentinel regarding the need for
transparency and accountability for tourism
development organizations spending tax dollars
to promote the interests of local communities.
We agree with your statements
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August 26, 2017 11:20 pm | Op-Ed
America is a “nation of laws,” not the whims of
people who occupy elected office. If America is a
nation of the whims of the elected, it is a nation where
some people are above the law. That is un-American.
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Aug. 25, 2017 10:25 am | Op-Ed
The
ability for our centers to continue to provide
critical services to even more uninsured
patients is in jeopardy because of an
unnecessary bureaucratic rule that would expand
significant inefficiencies in the state’s
existing reimbursement system.
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Posted August 17, 2017 02:30 am | Op-Ed
I’ll bet you
didn’t know — and why would you — that there are
more than 1,600 local agencies, boards and
special districts that have the power to incur
debt and operate under very little scrutiny
whatsoever. Of the 1,682 such groups, 224 of
those are CRAs. So first: what exactly is a CRA?
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Posted August 15, 2017 06:45 am | Op-Ed
Bigotry is a learned behavior, reinforced by
decades of ignorance and suspicion, and now it
has a toehold with a president who seems
oblivious to the damage he is causing
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August 11, 2017 09:50 am | Op-Ed
As
a high school teacher in the U.S. for 30 years,
I witnessed an almost total correlation in my
students between chronic marijuana use and a
falling off of the ability to come to class
prepared to engage, ask questions, and grow
intellectually. For the teens I worked with,
marijuana was an insidious and consistent killer
of ambition.
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Posted August 02, 2017 12:30 pm | Op-Ed
Can
you imagine facing a debt that you could never
pay off — one that never goes away, regardless
of how many times you try to pay? For hundreds
of thousands of nonviolent felons across
Florida, this is their reality.
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Posted July 27, 2017 06:20am | Op-Ed
In
Westeros, rape is the sport of kings and a
pastime for peasants. Game of Thrones-watchers
have been moved to anger, angst and apoplexy
over the steady stream of sexually-based
offenses inflicted upon women in the Seven
Kingdoms.
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July 25, 2017 09:15 pm | Op-Ed | (1
comment)
As
the night of Tuesday, November 8, began to go
downhill, like many Americans I felt stunned. I
hadn't actually allowed myself to imagine things
going the way they did and the unthinkable had
happened. Just a few months earlier, everyone
was scoffing at the idea of Trump becoming the
president and, inexplicably, he had just won.
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Posted July 24, 2017 07:30 am | Op-Ed
Heads up, citizens: the federal government is
about to review the endangered status of one of
our state’s rarest species — the Florida panther
— and now is the time for all of us to make our
voices heard.
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Posted July 18, 2017 04:45 pm | Op-Ed
Some people are just too much, as the story
goes. Or too “extra,” in the parlance of
today’s youth. That is, they are more than
the status quo can take. They challenge the
norms, they are unapologetic, and instead of
rejecting it, as is often expected, they
remain fiercely committed to their
difference. Instead of embracing this
attitude, we ridicule and we reject...
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Posted July 14, 2017 09:00 am | Op-Ed
With
what I learned at KSS, my hope is to "plug" the
leaks by keeping my female students engaged and
interested in solving local community problems.
I want all my students becoming environmental
stewards for the future...
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Posted July 06, 2017 07:15 am | Op-Ed
Florida
ranks third in the nation, behind California and
Texas, in the number of reported trafficking
cases and it experienced an alarming 54 percent
increase last year. Children account for more
than half the cases of human trafficking.
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Posted July 4, 2017 03:00 pm | Op-Ed
“Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”
have been specifically chosen to represent the
United States of America from its inception.
These values preceded Democratic and Republican
parties.
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Posted
July 3, 2017 06:30 am | Op-Ed
Think about how
nerve-wracking it is for us to try to dodge
traffic when we have to run across a highway –
just imagine how confusing it is for a wild
animal to be moving through the woods and
suddenly confronted by a road with speeding cars
everywhere.
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Posted June 28, 2017 05:40 am | Op-Ed
Sens.
Nelson and Rubio’s rare show of bipartisanship
couldn’t come at a better time. There are
currently seven federal judicial vacancies in
Florida and five of them are formally classified
as “judicial emergencies,” meaning there simply
are not enough judges to handle the growing
caseload.
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Posted June 23, 2017 07:45 am | Op-Ed
The first article in this series looked at the
possibility of removing Donald Trump through the
25th Amendment and it concluded there was
virtually no chance of that happening. This
article examines whether or not there is a
likelihood that President Trump will be
impeached. If so, what would be the grounds for
impeachment and ...
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Posted June 15, 2017 05:25 am | Op-Ed
The leaders of both parties are divided on
numerous matters, but on one critical piece of
business they seem united: keep Donald Trump in
office.
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Posted June 13, 2017 06:20 am | Op-Ed
Scott
signed a bill, introduced and passed by
Republicans with a party-line vote, that could
make it difficult (if not impossible) for
prosecutors to convict anyone invoking Stand
Your Ground.
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Posted June 12, 2016 04:55 am | Op-Ed
Each day seems to bring more trouble for
President Donald Trump. He fired his
National Security Adviser Michael
Flynn after just three weeks in his
position. Then came the firing of FBI
Director James Comey. Numerous other
individuals in his administration are
supposedly on the chopping block.
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Posted
June 11, 2017 08:15 pm | Op-Ed
I
read with interest the Sunday opinion in
Columbia County’s print paper, “Williams’
smokescreen isn’t fooling anyone.” I am a
true believer in the First Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution, which guarantees “freedom
of speech, or of the press.” I don’t believe
public officials should sue the press while
they are in office and doing the public’s
business. Indeed, I encourage the newspaper
to keep on writing. One day, it may actually
get it right.
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Posted
June 8, 2017 07:35 am | Op-Ed
As
the special session of the Legislature was set
to begin Wednesday, everyone heard of how
the compromise deal that appeared to be
the framework for a budget agreement was close
to collapse.
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Posted
June 7, 2017 02:00 am | Op-Ed
In
the musical Hamilton, there is a scene that
could have doubled for what happened in
Tallahassee. Corcoran, Scott and Negron were
three key figures in the room where it happened.
Decisions were happening, and other leaders need
not apply. On Friday, they were kind enough to
share news of the deal they reached.
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Posted June 1, 2017 09:30 am | Op-Ed
The architects of the
American Health Care Act deliberately left
erectile dysfunction off the list of
pre-existing conditions. So, being a woman
is a chronic medical condition that must be
controlled by men but getting hard (or not) is
protected.
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Posted May 18, 2017 08:15 am | Op-Ed
Rather than indulge in the same scare
tactics employed by some opponents, I’d like
to just tell you exactly what the budget
does and doesn’t do. None of what I’m about
to tell you is half true or somewhat true —
it’s all completely true.
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Posted May 17, 2017 04:15 am | Op-Ed
Ransomware has become the fastest growing
cyber threat; last week it was a variation
called Fatboy, this week is WannaCry. The
criminals are targeting everyone from home
users to health care systems to big
business. Data show that there has been an
average of more than 4,000 ransomware
attacks every day of this year. That is some
serious volume.
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Posted May 17, 2017 03:45 am | Op-Ed
When the Florida Constitution Revision Commission was
debating the election of judges 20 years ago, I sat in
the gallery to hear my own words used to attack
something that my editorials and columns consistently
had supported.
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Posted May 7, 2017 07:15 pm | Op-Ed
Some things in life ought to be above politics,
none more so than a parent’s relationship to a
child. How this truth was sorely tested in
Florida not so long ago is the subject of a new
documentary that we should all want to see.
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Posted May 1, 2016 07:05 am
Within
hours of the alleged rape, Greenlee, Shepherd
and Irvin were arrested and beaten in order to
extract confessions. Thomas fled the area but
was killed “in a hail of gunfire” by a 1,000 man
posse in Taylor County.
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Posted April 29, 2017 04:55am | Op-Ed
One year ago, I
was riding my bicycle down A1A. Out of nowhere,
a woman driving a 1988 LTD hit me going 45 miles
per hour. The force of the collision sent me
flying 60 feet. I landed face first.
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Posted April 23, 2017 09:30am | Op-Ed | Pt V
After
a lifetime of drawing the short straw, Keishan
Ross may finally have caught a break. In cases
like Keishan’s, a judge who’s willing to “retain
jurisdiction” is the only protection a disabled
child has.
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Posted April 23, 2017 09:30am | Op-Ed | Pt IV
In
the wake of two suicides of teenage foster
children in their “care,” the “leadership team”
of Miami’s “community-based care” agency took
their marbles and accrued benefits and went
home.
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 Let's
Hope Someone Loves Frank Artiles Enough
To Get Him Some Help
Posted
April 20, 2017 09:55 am | Op-Eds
When
people can’t exercise the control and
judgment we expect of a third grader,
there is often a medical explanation. (warning
- adult language)
 There's
Only One Ethical Course for the FL
Senate to Take: Ethics?
If
you’re keeping score (and I know you
are), Tuesday was a bad day for the
Florida Senate. That august body served
up a double serving from the “This Is
Why People Hate Politicians” buffet.
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April 14, 2017 12:05 am | Op-Ed | (1
comment)
If
you are struggling with student loan debt and
thought you might get a break, think again. This
week, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos quietly
issued a decree reversing actions by President
Obama to ease the burden of people struggling to
pay off those loans.
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Posted April 13, 2017 06:20 am | Op-Ed
When Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney
General Pam Bondi finally got around to
talking about Florida’s opioid crisis, the
hot air was suffocating. In parts of
Florida, opioids have overtaken homicides
and DUIs as a cause of very premature and
utterly unnecessary death. That is not
breaking news to anyone who has been paying
even a little attention.
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Posted
April 10, 2017 06:35 am | Op-Ed
Numerous
studies have shown Florida’s gun-totin’ “stand
your ground” law doesn’t work. The Journal of
American Medical Association recently reported,
“The removal of restrictions on when and where
individuals can use lethal force was associated
with a significant increase in homicide and
homicide by firearm in Florida.”
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Posted April 5, 2017, 07:55 pm | Op-Ed
Claims
bills are the state’s reluctant, belated,
grudging way of saying “we’re sorry” for the
malfeasance and malpractice that ruined
someone’s life. In a functioning system, simple
mistakes and honest errors are caught quickly.
We do not have a functioning system.
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Posted April 2, 2017, 11:30 am | Op-Ed
DCF’s “leadership” is not talking, but thanks to
what little is left of Florida’s public records
law, we know that the state adopted Lauryn out
to some “forever family” that later returned her
in a fit of buyer’s remorse.
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Posted March 29, 2017, 08:35 am | Op-Ed
If
there’s one thing a $113,000 a year Florida tourism
executive urgently needs, it’s a $26,000 raise.
Florida tourism’s marketing honchos have a target on
their backs, fronts and sides, along with incomes
that vastly exceed what average Floridians will earn
in their best years, or their wildest dreams.
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Posted March 27, 2017 06:22 am | Op-Ed
Depending
on your point of view, red-light cameras in
Florida are either: A) Of great benefit to
public safety by making drivers think twice when
approaching a changing traffic light; or B) a
cash grab by communities that amounts to a
backdoor tax.
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Posted March 24, 2017 05:40 am | Op-Ed
In
a few weeks or months, we will learn the name of
the Volusia County woman who, in 1997, had the
bad fortune to encounter one Robert Sheridan
Haar. Florida’s public officials love to talk
tough on crime, but they won’t cough up the
chump change it would take to clear the backlog
of rape kits gathering dust.
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Posted March 23, 2017 08:25 am | Op-Ed
If
you’re old enough to get married, you’re old
enough to have a will, but that’s not something
the Wedding Planner will tell you. It’s a
statistically safe bet that your parents, your
grandparents, and your wedding planner don’t
have a will of their own.
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Posted March 17, 2017 06:45 am | Op-Ed
Burnout
– Work-Life Balance. Employees have used or
heard these terms. They are two different
things. However, they are closely related. They
both leave a person with less energy: their
common denominator is negative consequences.
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Posted
March 12, 2017 10:30 am | Op-Ed
Supporters will argue that Florida’s “Stand Your
Ground” law is vital to individual safety, but
the measure never took judgment and common sense
into the equation. It legalizes impulses that
can be deadly.
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Posted March 9, 2017, 08:35 am | Op-Ed
Jackie
Pons is still the kind of public official who
gave Florida’s Deferred Retirement Option
Program (DROP) a very bad name. Pons lost his
bid for re-election November as Leon County’s
Superintendent of Schools. As a DROP-enrollee he
was entitled a $6778 monthly pension check and a
one-time payment of just under $200,000.
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Posted March 7, 2017, 07:15 am | Op-Ed
After she stopped laughing, First Amendment
Foundation President Barbara Petersen pointed
out the holes in the rationalizations,
prevarications and passive aggressive
sandbagging served up by Coleman to justify
AHCA’s “new redaction process.”
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March 3, 2017, 08:55 am | Op-Ed
The clubs have
names like I Am One and Brave Women of Palm
Beach County, and to look at their elegant
members, you’d think they were ladies of leisure
on their way to a fashion show or an art
gallery. Instead, they are the heartbroken
survivors of beloved children and siblings whose
extreme mental illnesses ultimately killed them
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March 2, 2017 04:30 am | Op-Ed
As we saw during the last campaign, Marco
Rubio can be awfully good at not showing up. His
latest no-show has nothing to do with his
attendance in the U.S. Senate, though. Now, he
doesn’t want to show up at town hall meetings
because people might be rude.
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February 22, 201 05:00 am | Op-Ed
Late in the campaign, the New Yorker
satirist Andy Borowitz wrote that Queen
Elizabeth II was offering to take the colonies
back, suggesting that Americans dissatisfied
with their options should just write in her name
for president. It doesn’t seem quite as funny
now as it did then.
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February 13, 2017, 05:45 am | Op-Ed
The
Very Best Idea in Florida Right This Minute
comes from Palm Beach County
Commissioner Melissa McKinlay, who is asking
Gov. Rick Scott to call Florida’s heroin
epidemic by its right name: a public health
crisis.
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February 9, 2017 07:25 am | Op-Ed
I would add that any company needing an
“incentive” beyond Florida’s obvious strengths
to do business here is probably not a company we
need. But that’s just me.
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February 7, 2017, 08:55 am | Op-Ed
By age six, our daughters have internalized the
belief that they are not as smart as boys. Boys
think so, too. That works well for the
bipartisan coalition of Men Who Like Things The
Way They Are, but makes for “a pathological
system that rewards men for their incompetence
while punishing women for their competence to
the detriment of everybody.”
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January 31, 2017, 05:15 am | Op-Ed
"You undress on a large paper sheet, the better to
capture any hair or fiber evidence that falls from your
body or clothing. You’re photographed naked from head to
toe. You’re poked, probed and swabbed in your mouth,
your anus and your genitals."
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January 30, 2016 07:05 am | Op-Ed
President Trump, don’t waste your time and
political resources in trying to prove the
unprovable. You won. Move on.
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January 27, 2017 04:00 am | Op-Ed
Gov. Scott threatened
Florida ports with sanctions if they do business
with Cuba. He underscored it with a pair of tweets.
Let's think this through. If Cuba is off limits, I
guess China should be too.
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Posted January 25, 2017, 12:01 am | Op-Ed
The “leadership” that pressured low-level
caseworkers to sign off on homes where the
Humane Society would not place a rescue cat
is gone, too. They have risen to higher and
better-paying levels of incompetence, where
they continue to take things very seriously.
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January 24, 2017 01:45 am | Op-Ed
By
announcing he will vote to approve Rex
Tillerson for secretary of state, the fittingly
titled junior U.S. senator from Florida proved
he is compromised and cut down to size.
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January 22, 2016 09:45 am |
Part II | Op-Ed
With the inauguration of Donald Trump, it is a good time to review the electoral impact of eight years of
the Obama White House. One of the impacts is the election of Trump which surprised the entire political universe.
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January 21, 2016 08:45 am |
Part I
| Op-Ed
The 2008 presidential campaign of Barack
Obama focused on the theme of change. Obama
promised to “restore our moral standing” and
“focus on nation-building here at home.”
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January 19, 2017 08:30 am | Op-Ed
Betsy
DeVos, whose children never attended public
schools, may soon lead the nation’s Dept. of
Education. Assuming she is confirmed, care to
take a guess what Florida public education will
look like four years from now?
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Posted January 18, 2017, 04:15 am | Op-Ed
In
Palm Beach County, millions of pounds of
vegetables are unpicked, plowed under, and
rotting in the fields not far away from large
populations of undernourished children.
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January 13, 2017 10:35 am | Op-Ed
Marco
Rubio promised during his campaign for
re-election to the U.S. Senate that he would
stand up to Donald Trump when necessary.
“Necessary” didn’t take long to arrive.
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January 12, 2017 04:30 am | Op-Ed
The past eight years have brought onto us
sluggish economic growth, a wave of
overregulation that drastically hurts the
viability of our small businesses and, overall,
an out-of-touch administration. It’s no surprise
that Americans are fed up, and this year’s
election proved that.
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January 10, 2017 07:00 am | Op-Ed
Conservatives
were outraged that, during her acceptance speech
for a lifetime of excellence in Hollywood, she
referenced Trump’s mocking of a disabled
reporter during the campaign.
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January 8, 2017 07:15 am | Op-Ed
Republicans
have the votes, for now, to move ahead with
something. What that is, though, is anyone’s
guess. After barking their hatred for Obamacare
for six years, they have, in the words of Senate
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, become “the dog
that caught the car.”
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January 4, 2017 07:05 am | Op-Ed
Where
elected members of Congress do their work
farther away from home, an independent Office of
Congressional Ethics is more important than
ever.
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January 2, 2017 01:05 pm | Op-Ed
While most of the most popular New Year’s
resolutions - eat right, work out more, learn a
new language – might be personal, there are
always attainable resolutions in the workplace.
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December 30, 2016 01:30 am | Op-Ed
The ratio
of rape to rapeseed has changed in today’s
digital card catalogue, thanks to women like
Brownmiller who did the hard and largely
thankless work of bringing light to dark
corners where women’s spirits are broken.
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December 28, 2016 05:10 am | Op-Ed
If it’s OK with you, though, I think 2016 has
been filled with so many things we would like to
forget (and Im not even talking about Donald
Trump … yet) that we should cut this year short.
It has been an unwelcome guest for 51 weeks, and
it needs to go away.
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National Catholic Reporter Congratulates Joe
Biden: "Looking forward to a dignified, honest
leader"
Shaping
a Better Future By Recognizing the
Interdependence of the World
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and is a Bad Deal for Floridians
M-CORES:
Paving Over Rural Florida
George, Breonna, Ahmaud, Trayvon . . . What
Now, White America?
The
Ghost of Ché Guevara Guiding Us Through
Covid-19: "Ché would be proud"
Columbia
County, Florida & COVID-19: Do the County
Fathers Have the Firefighters' Backs?
'Stop Child Predators' Warns: "Parents
Should Be On the Alert For 'Strangers' In
Communities"
FLA 2019: "A State Run By Enablers, Bootlickers,
And Some Possible Unindicted Co-Conspirators"
Hail
To The Chief – Thoughts for Veterans Day
Santa
Fe River Turtles: Environment in Peril
Some
Things We Should Not Have To Discuss With Our
Kids – Ever
Citizen
Constitutional Initiatives Under Attack by
Florida Legislature
Fed Dist Ct Ruling Must Be Overturned - Millions
in FL Could Lose Health Insurance
Invasion of the ‘Caravan Horde’: Fact – Fiction
- Values
Rick Scott: The Most Secretive Florida
Gov
in Modern Times
Lake City's Mainstream Media:
Lake City Reporter, A Growing Deception of
News Coverage
The Nonviolent American Revolution Which Led to
the 4th of July Celebration of Independence Day
Interrogations: Gina Haspel (CIA) - Adolf
Eichmann (SS)
LSHA: County Residents Should Be Able to Send a
Message to the Legis 'Keep it or Dissolve It'
Floridians for Reproductive Freedom Denounce Gov
Scott After Legitimizing Fake Women's Clinics
Richard Corcoran:
Why (CRAs) Community Redevelopment Agencies Have
to Go
Computer
Virus: WannaCry? No
Grandma
Gatewood’s Walk