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Florence SnyderJanuary 14, 2017

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. The weather this growing season was everything it needed to be for a bountiful harvest Florida’s growers can be proud of. But the “agricultural economics” that forced growers to […]

Florence SnyderJanuary 12, 2017

Theater is like life, actor and playwright Keith Hamilton Cobb told a crowd of 650 last night at The Moon. “There’s no Take 2. That keeps it honest and authentic, which we should all be.” We should, but we’re not, so Liz Joyner, one of Florida’s few remaining honest and authentic civility activists, invited the […]

Florence SnyderJanuary 12, 2017

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At Tallahassee Community College (TCC), they’re serving up a venti cup of corporate welfare with a side order of unnecessary and possibly illegal confidentiality. The school is shelling out $500K in “unrestricted funds” to peddle coffee — more specifically, Starbucks coffee — at its downtown “Center for Innovation” located just spitting distance from the state […]

Florence SnyderJanuary 10, 2017

Nat Hentoff‘s writing was as brilliant, edgy and unpredictable as the music of Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, Charles Mingus, and the many other geniuses he worked with in his altogether remarkable life. Hentoff died Saturday at age 91, mourned by family, free thinkers, jazz junkies, and persons on the lunatic fringe of the […]

Florence SnyderJanuary 7, 2017

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Last week’s news was overstuffed with upsetting reports about the mental health of military people. And that was before “troubled Army veteran” Esteban Santiago opened fire at the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The armed forces have shrunk by 10 percent in recent years, but child abuse and neglect in military families are up. Way up. […]

Florence SnyderJanuary 6, 2017

Life really does imitate Game of Thrones. Republicans, Democrats, Lannisters and Starks fight over White Houses and King’s Landings, but the future is trending in favor of the White Walkers and the germs. A timely reminder of The Coming Plague comes from USA TODAY investigative reporter Alison Young, who weighed in this week with new […]

Florence SnyderJanuary 2, 2017

Good on you, Jason Steele, for being the first person in the Space Florida boardroom to talk about the elephant. “We have not had a target on our back, but I promise you, and my crystal ball is very clear, the target will be on our back,” Steele told his fellow Space Florida directors, as […]

Florence SnyderDecember 31, 2016

Quite frankly, moving forward, our partners, community partners, and stakeholders must step up to the plate to reach out, speak out, and double down on a robust, impactful, pushback against Word Salad. So, clearly, our paid professional purveyors of political communication are obviously resonating with an obsessive-compulsive doubling down on words and phrases that frankly […]

Florence SnyderDecember 30, 2016

Drunk is the new barefoot and pregnant. Both work equally well to keep women from posing a threat to men in the marketplace, which may explain why “heavy drinking has been normalized” for the sex that isn’t built to metabolize alcohol. Men can be stewed to the gills and nevertheless stay in high places for […]

Florence SnyderDecember 29, 2016

At age 81, the journalist, historian, and feminist icon Susan Brownmiller has lost none of the youthful mix of outrage and optimism that fueled the four furious years of research and reporting that became “Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape.” The highly influential tome was front page news when first published in 1975. Since then, the book […]

Florence Snyder

Palm Beach County veggie-pocalyse requires #FreshThinkingFromFlorida

American Moor is a revelation, one you can see this week in Tallahassee

TCC serves up coffee, corporate welfare, and confidentiality

Nat Hentoff, master of words and music, gone too soon at 91

Ft. Lauderdale massacre caps a miserable week for the military

In the Great Game, government fights for the White Walkers and the germs

Space Florida ‘Steeles’ itself for the winter that’s coming

A desperate declaration of war on word salad

Drunk is the new barefoot and pregnant

Florence Snyder: Now in her 80s, Susan Brownmiller continues to inspire