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Guest AuthorDecember 14, 2016

Key questions always loom large for parents of homeschooled, college-bound students, such as: “What happens when my child actually gets to the university level? Will they be able to keep up?” As a faculty member, I get the chance to interact with a variety of undergraduates in a number of ways, principally in the classroom […]

Guest AuthorDecember 9, 2016

“What we have here is a failure to communicate.” That quote from “Cool Hand Luke” could be directed squarely at the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party has been suffering from this issue and a message problem since 1998. The performance of the Florida Democratic Party has led to a complete Republican dominance in both the […]

Guest AuthorDecember 9, 2016

John Glenn is my hero and America’s hero, but he was also my boss. Sen. Glenn always acted with integrity: in his marriage to his sweetheart, in his devotion to his country, in his work with his colleagues. He was always a gentleman in the best sense. I had the good luck as a young […]

Guest AuthorDecember 8, 2016

Editor’s note: Former Florida State University System Chancellor Charles Reed died Tuesday at 75. Charlie Reed was a hard charger, a master legislative strategist, a fantastically successful leader in higher education, a consummate professional, and a class act. Reed became Chancellor of Florida’s State University System at about the same time that I became Executive […]

Guest AuthorDecember 8, 2016

Five years ago, my daughter Samantha was struggling in sixth grade and not getting enough help, because her teachers were dealing with too many struggling students at once. It wasn’t long before she began hanging out with the wrong crowd, and acting up in school and at home. I knew I had to make a […]

Guest AuthorDecember 6, 2016

Fidel Castro is dead. Thousands of Cubans, many of whom lived under Castro’s regime, gathered in the streets of Miami to celebrate his death. For them, his passing marked the symbolic end of a reign of terror, a nightmare that destroyed thousands of lives and forced a million Cubans to leave their homes and seek […]

Guest AuthorNovember 30, 2016

Steven Kurlander: Real grassroots transition required: Rebuilding the GOP So far, if you were to sum up the Donald Trump team transition, it’s pretty disappointing in terms of delivering important changes in how Washington works that the president-elect promised during the campaign. For the most part, the present transition period is dominated by insiders from […]

Guest AuthorNovember 29, 2016

As the Nov. 30 end of the hurricane season approaches, Floridians should be thankful. While this year’s storms Hermine and Matthew brought an end to the state’s decade-long hurricane drought, they easily could have been stronger or cut a more destructive path. Indeed, had Hurricane Matthew tracked just 20 or more miles further west, it […]

Guest AuthorNovember 25, 2016

Two years ago, I held a series of roundtable meetings in Lutz, Florida with physicians, advocates, patients, and families from our area to hear about the challenges of finding cures for the thousands of deadly and chronic diseases impacting millions of Americans. Diseases like cancer, ALS, Alzheimer’s and the 7,000 rare conditions. These discussions were […]

Guest AuthorNovember 23, 2016

Picking up ingredients for your family’s favorite Thanksgiving dishes locally can be so easy that we sometimes take for granted our ranchers’ and farmers’ hard work to provide the food we all rely on. Agriculture has been and will continue to be the cornerstone of society — it is the industry that provides for one […]

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Ali P. Gordon: Homeschooled students bring own skill set to university campuses

Carlos Nathan: An open letter to Florida Democrats

Steve Ryan: John Glenn, Senator and hero. Things the public didn’t always see.

John Sowinski: On Charlie Reed, a legacy ‘beyond measure’

Heidi Gonzalez: Lawsuit against school choice will hurt children like mine

Valerio Martinelli: Cubans know ideas matter

Steven Kurlander: Real grassroots transition required: Rebuilding the GOP

Christian Cámara: Reinsurance saved Florida from catastrophic losses

Gus Bilirakis: Giving a voice to rare disease patients

Adam Putnam: Your Thanksgiving meal began on a farm

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