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Guest AuthorNovember 2, 2016

Tuesday, Nov. 8, is Game Day! The election is just days away and the news is all abuzz this morning about “rigged” elections, sexual-assault allegations, FBI investigations, unpaid taxes, and more emails. Just when you might have thought that the soap opera that is the 2016 presidential election could not get any crazier, well, here […]

Guest AuthorNovember 1, 2016

As surely as voting is integral to our unique American political system, so is money — and that’s not a dirty word. There is nothing wrong with this fundamental truth and reality: it takes real money to run a campaign, promote a platform, reach the electorate, and get elected. Self-righteous critics who decry the role […]

Guest AuthorNovember 1, 2016

To prepare for war with Nazi Germany, the British government considered how to maintain civilian morale should events go badly. Among other things, it printed more than two million posters with the slogan “Keep calm and carry on.” Although they were never issued, copies are available wherever good refrigerator magnets are sold. That slogan is […]

Guest AuthorOctober 31, 2016

With Donald Trump still down in the polls with a week to go, the edifice of excuses designed to justify his potential defeat is being hurried to completion. To the foundation stones of voter fraud and a mainstream media conspiracy his campaign manager recently added treason, alleging that if Trump loses it will be, in large […]

Guest AuthorOctober 26, 2016

Candidates for Florida’s newly drawn Senate District 8 outlined their disparate visions for the future to more than 300 students at a debate held at the University of Florida Tuesday evening. But one thing both men had in common was their choice to lead lives that differ dramatically from the lives their fathers led. “Happiness […]

Guest AuthorOctober 25, 2016

Pols, pundits and other people in #TheProcess are busy plastering their social media accounts with paeans to the “skits” produced and performed by the stellar crew and cast at Saturday Night Live. So this is a good time to show our appreciation by resolving not to mention Lorne Michaels’ people in the same sentence with […]

Guest AuthorOctober 25, 2016

Living in a world that is out-of-touch with most Floridians, Congressman Patrick Murphy has consistently shown us why he is unfit for the job of congressman, much less the office of senator, a promotion he is currently seeking. Murphy has spent his life sheltered from the real difficulties Floridians face every day and has exaggerated […]

Guest AuthorOctober 25, 2016

If you ask most Americans, they will tell you they can’t wait for this year’s presidential election to be over. The 2016 presidential campaign has been one with no decorum or class — a very dirty, vicious political race. It has exasperated an already overblown antipathy toward American politics and those who govern us. Americans […]

Guest AuthorOctober 22, 2016

The GOP has just been hoisted by its own petard thanks to The Donald. For the last several years the GOP has vigorously pursued the implementation of measures in one state after another that have made voting more difficult. All along it has defended this voter suppression campaign as necessary to combat rampant voter fraud. […]

Guest AuthorOctober 21, 2016

Early estimates placed Florida’s total economic damage from Hurricane Matthew in the range of $25-$70 billion. With the weakening of the storm and a track that moved the storm eastward, the estimated damage from the storm dropped significantly, but that should not keep us from acknowledging the real threat Matthew was to Florida. Real estate […]

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Gerrod Lambrecht: Are you ready for some football … I mean election?

Nancy Texeira: Money is a clean, key component of American democracy

Martin Dyckman: Keep calm and carry on

Mac Stipanovich: Win or lose, Never Trump movement remains proud

Keith Perry and Rod Smith offer different visions for Florida, while touching on the personal at SD 8 debate

Florence Snyder: If you’re laughing, it was probably not a ‘skit’

Cynthia ‘Cindy’ Graves: Patrick Murphy — utter disrespect for women

Steven Kurlander: 2016 election legacy — wishing it would end already

Michael Richardson: GOP action on voter fraud? Don’t hold your breath

Manley Fuller: Hurricane Matthew delivers another reminder of life on Florida’s coastline