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Guest AuthorDecember 4, 2015

I have never owned a gun. I’m certain there’s no personal God who hears and answers our prayers. So naturally I found the New York Daily News headline – “God isn’t fixing this” – intriguing. Some editors there apparently decided to issue a collective scream after the slaughter in San Bernardino on Wednesday and the […]

Guest AuthorDecember 3, 2015

I have never owned a gun. I’m certain there’s no personal God who hears and answers our prayers. So naturally I found the New York Daily News headline – “God isn’t fixing this” – intriguing. Some editors there apparently decided to issue a collective scream after the slaughter in San Bernardino on Wednesday and the […]

Guest AuthorDecember 3, 2015

Early this football season, while I was watching the Pittsburgh Steelers play the St. Louis Rams, I saw something happen during the game that I have never seen before. The Rams’ running back, Tre Mason, broke out for a seven-yard run and our defensive back, Antwon Blake, went to tackle him. Mason attempted to leap […]

Guest AuthorDecember 2, 2015

Cheating at business schools of all sizes is widespread, according to a study a few years ago by the Association to Advance College Schools of Business, which accredits 740 of the world’s best business schools in 50 countries. Since it appears that many students at those accredited schools tend to accept, or at least tolerate, […]

Guest AuthorDecember 2, 2015

Florida has become the nation’s toughest state for renters, with California and New York trailing closely behind. According to the recently released “Make Room” report by Enterprise Community Partners, Florida has the largest share of renters – 31 percent – who spend more than half of their income on housing. In fact, according to the […]

Guest AuthorDecember 2, 2015

Hillary Clinton is coming back to the Sunshine State this week, but she won’t be getting a warm welcome: A recent poll published by the Florida Atlantic University asserts that Clinton’s disapproval rating in Florida has skyrocketed with 56 percent of Floridians viewing the “often confused” former first lady unfavorably. This is tough news for […]

Guest AuthorDecember 1, 2015

I resign from the Republican Party. I’ve hung in there for a while, and I’ve hoped that the current spate of crazy was just the normal primary nonsense. But at this point I really see nothing of what I believe in any of the viable candidates. The front-runner’s campaign slogan of “Heil Trump” is simply […]

Guest AuthorNovember 30, 2015

Last month, I suffered through a miserable lunch at a local restaurant, a place where I usually dine and know the owner well. The food and service were fine, but I happened to sit near a young mother and her 1-year -old who had a healthy set of lungs. The mother was accompanied by a […]

Guest AuthorNovember 30, 2015

If you want to be simultaneously appalled and inspired, go see the movie “Spotlight.” It’s about The Boston Globe’s 2001-2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Boston archdiocese’s decades-long cover-up of child sex abuse by its priests and brothers. The film is unusual because it portrays people doing actual journalism. There are no gaggles of goofballs […]

Guest AuthorNovember 30, 2015

Underneath the candidate smears that are so much a part of local and national politics, there are a number of critical issues that leave both Republicans and Democrats too far apart. Party posturing aside there is substance to both sides of each concern but an inability for friendly if not effective bipartisan discussion. The elephants […]

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Tom O’Hara: Pray, ask God to make politicians impose sane gun control

Tom O’Hara: Pray, ask God to make politicians impose sane gun control

Tom Rooney: Head games – The push to protect football players from brain injury

William Steiger: Teach ethics in classrooms now, curb bad behavior in workplace later

Jaimie Ross: Florida leads nation in bad and good news for affordable housing

Blaise Ingoglia: Cloudy forecast for Hillary Clinton’s Sunshine State visit

Scott Weese: GOP has finally gone too far

Tim Bryce: Sometimes parents need a little parenting

Tom O’Hara: “Spotlight” shows journalism at its best, Catholic Church at its worst

Dr. Marc J. Yacht: The elephants in the room