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Guest AuthorJanuary 24, 2016

We live in a competitive world. Companies compete for our attention as consumers, and each state competes with all the others to entice those companies to move to their state. However, for Florida to attract new businesses, we must better market Florida domestically, nationally and globally. Florida’s low taxes and natural resources attract new residents, […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 21, 2016

I’m two things (at least!) that Rep. Alan Grayson is not: a Patrick Murphy supporter and a Hillary Clinton supporter. So why does my name appear along his on the Clinton campaign’s list of their “Florida Leadership Team”? FloridaPolitics.com asked this very question a few months ago when the list was first released, and I […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 21, 2016

When I was a freshman, a psychology course completely changed my perspective on life. I remember on the first day of class my professor provided a reality check to us that we so desperately needed. He wanted to erase the stigma that students often feel that they should just go to college with the focus […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 21, 2016

The media and a substantial number of people in this country do not seem to understand Donald Trump, claiming he is crude, racist, greedy, and worse. The reality is, they really do not understand such a person. In my 40 years of travel through the corporate world, I have met my fair share of Donald […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 21, 2016

“Me. Me. Pick me.” “No, pick me. Please.” “Me. Not him. I’m the real one.” Oh, dear Mary, Joseph and the wee donkey. We’ve got a splendid island kerfuffle over who gets to be the official “Key West Ambassador to Cuba.” The schoolboy romp is playing itself out on Facebook, across the front pages of […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 20, 2016

“Me. Me. Pick me.” “No, pick me. Please.” “Me. Not him. I’m the real one.” Oh, dear Mary, Joseph and the wee donkey. We’ve got a splendid island kerfuffle over who gets to be the official “Key West Ambassador to Cuba.” The schoolboy romp is playing itself out on Facebook, across the front pages of […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 19, 2016

As we head into the semi-home stretch of the presidential campaign, I keep waiting for someone to put forth these questions: Are people who want to occupy the White House mentally stable? Why would anyone in his or her right mind wish to spend four years in a war zone? Don’t these candidates read the […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 19, 2016

My name is David Jolly. I’m a sitting Member of Congress and the current Republican front runner to replace Marco Rubio in the United States Senate. I’m about to share with you two truths. The first truth is every Member of Congress is expected to spend more time raising money than they are solving the […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 19, 2016

Florida lawmakers are being asked to consider what appears to be a small change in an existing law, but one that carries a big, negative, and costly impact on consumers — reason enough to oppose this bad idea. For almost 30 years, Florida consumers have been well-protected by a law requiring certain used cars to […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 18, 2016

When we die, the knowledge stored in our brains disappears. But through education, each generation of people can pass their knowledge to the next via spoken language, books and other media, and this knowledge can accumulate through the ages. Much of our valuable knowledge will live on in the brains of the next generation and […]

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