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Guest AuthorMay 27, 2016

Florida’s push for education gains should be conducted in the classroom, not the courtroom. A Leon County judge’s sweeping decision this week to protect education options for more than 70,000 students is a historic moment. It is critical that we work together and focus on helping students and teachers by strengthening scholarship and school options […]

Guest AuthorMay 26, 2016

Nobody would claim that elected officials are an inherently truthful breed. Even the honest ones, of whom there are many, are required to stretch the truth, engage in hyperbole, bite their tongues, avert their eyes, and sometimes even spout little white lies in order to get elected or re-elected. This is due in no small […]

Guest AuthorMay 26, 2016

As a longtime community advocate and state legislator in Orlando, I work every day to make sure that consumers in Florida have access to quality, affordable health care. The recent approved mergers of Aetna with Humana and Anthem with Cigna pose great challenges for Florida consumers. While the idea of mergers to create bigger companies […]

Guest AuthorMay 25, 2016

Part of my job at Sachs Media Group is running data experiments that nobody has asked us to run, for the simple pleasure of satisfying curiosity and the attempt to better understand what kinds of things matter to people. Our themes generally relate back to the space of communications or politics. For example: does reading […]

Guest AuthorMay 25, 2016

Florida is already a great place to live, work, play, and learn. It’s home to a wide variety of industries and career opportunities. But, did you know that by the year 2030, half of today’s careers and occupations won’t exist? At the Florida Chamber of Commerce, we believe a quality education and workforce development system […]

Guest AuthorMay 23, 2016

As Florida residents continue to engage in this presidential election, Republicans, Democrats and independents are split on many pressing issues. But there’s one issue many voters are united on — criminal justice reform. Nearly every American has a family member, loved one or neighbor who has — or who will — come into contact with the criminal […]

Guest AuthorMay 20, 2016

Every week another job-killing, economy-stifling, Constitution-trampling regulation seems to come out from on high. The Obama administration just doesn’t seem to get it. That or they don’t actually care about the people they’re purporting to help. After all, it sure is easy to propose solutions to “income inequality” when you personally don’t have to suffer […]

Guest AuthorMay 20, 2016

President Barack Obama’s visit to the Japanese Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park later this month is an opportunity for the world to reflect on the United States’ decision to use atomic weapons to destroy the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Seventy thousand civilians were incinerated by the Hiroshima blast and another 70,000 would die […]

Guest AuthorMay 19, 2016

I hate crowds. So I don’t show up for opening night of the latest Tinseltown talkie. But, eventually, I’m gonna see “Captain America: Civil War.” Why? It finally introduces a character from my tweenage fanboy days: The Black Panther. Growing up black in the ’70s, it was hard for a guy who read encyclopedias for […]

Guest AuthorMay 18, 2016

Bob Sparks, an articulate and well-regarded writer for this publication, simply got it wrong when he offered that voters have plenty of choices without open primaries. They do not. His premise is that voters already have the choice to join one of two major political parties if they want to participate in — case in point […]

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Dominic Calabro: Invest in students and teachers, not lawsuits and lawyers

Michael Richardson: When truth is the loser

Geraldine Thompson: Profits ahead of patients spells trouble for Floridians

Meme-ification of reason (and politics) – an experiment

Mark Wilson: Turning today’s learners into tomorrow’s earners

Dominic Calabro & Howard Simon: Lawmakers must back criminal justice reform

Sal Nuzzo: Mandating Americans out of a job — tug -of-war isn’t working

Marc Yacht: Barack Obama’s planned visit to Hiroshima is an opportunity to reflect

Darryl E. Owens: ‘Civil War’s’ Black Panther should prod battle to boost Black STEM presence

John Opdycke: Closed primaries do not give voters ‘plenty of choices’