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Guest AuthorOctober 12, 2016

As the chair-elect of the Workers’ Compensation Section of the Florida Bar, I believe it is important to correct misconceptions and misstatements made by the head of the Florida Chamber regarding Florida’s workers’ compensation system and the attorneys who represent injured Floridians. In a recent column, Mark Wilson and the Chamber suggest the workers’ compensation […]

Guest AuthorOctober 10, 2016

The Donald Trump tape scandal unloaded a torrent of un-endorsements over the weekend, much to the delight of the longtime “Never Trump” crowd. Here is the problem, my “Never Trump” friends: you are probably a big cause of the Trump phenomenon. Perhaps no group of people in the history of earth has been more gratuitously […]

Guest AuthorOctober 10, 2016

Attention Florida business owners — in case you missed it, you are about to be hit with a workers’ compensation insurance increase that you most likely haven’t planned for, all for the benefit of Florida’s billboard trial lawyers. This week, the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation approved a 14.5 percent workers’ compensation rate increase that […]

Guest AuthorOctober 9, 2016

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Donald Trump was caught on tape boasting about sexually harassing women. His comments are sickening, inexcusable, and dangerous. They contribute to a culture that devalues women and makes our society unsafe. His behavior is enough to disqualify him from pretty much any job, let alone our country’s highest office. Sen. Marco Rubio responded to his choice […]

Guest AuthorOctober 6, 2016

Florida is reportedly vulnerable to energy disruption in one of two ways: if supply is shut down in the Gulf of Mexico, or if a pipeline fails. Hurricanes — which can interrupt supply and leave the state susceptible to shortfalls and excessive prices — can do both. After a string of quiet hurricane seasons — […]

Guest AuthorOctober 4, 2016

Though death and taxes have long been thought to be the two certainties in life, it’s now looking like skyrocketing health care costs comes in a close third. Florida state officials recently approved an average health insurance premium increase of 19 percent. And these hikes come after state officials raised rates 9.5 percent last year […]

Guest AuthorOctober 1, 2016

From September through March, every year, in the coastal waters near the small Japanese village of Taiji, a gruesome dolphin hunt takes place. Hunters aboard speed boats use noise to herd schools of dolphins toward shore, corralling them in a cove where they are surrounded by nets, manhandled by divers and most are killed. They […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 28, 2016

W.E.B. Dubois once said, “To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.” I hear Dubois when I see the academic results for black students. Year after year, the outcomes remain unbearable and unconscionable. More than 60 years after the U.S. Supreme Court declared an official end to separate-but-unequal schools, only […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 27, 2016

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With six weeks remaining in the 2016 presidential race, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump squared off Monday night in the first of three debates. The spectacle reminded voters how much has changed in American politics since his virtuous dealings as a lawyer in the Illinois circuit courts in the 1850s earned Abraham Lincoln the nickname […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 22, 2016

Earlier this week, I addressed the Polk County Board of County Commissioners on the recent sinkhole and water loss incident at our New Wales production facility, and believe the updates and sentiments that I shared are pertinent to the entire west-central Florida community. The most important thing for the community to know is that on […]

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Paul M. Anderson: Stereotypes won’t help Florida workers – or produce real reform

Joe Clements: ‘Never Trump’ politicos set the stage for this

Mark Wilson: Rising workers’ comp rates hurt businesses

Patrick Murphy: Marco Rubio, unendorse Donald Trump or withdraw from the race

Kevin Doyle: During hurricane season, pipelines expansion is a must-have

Chris Hudson: Death, taxes and health care

Wayne Pacelle and Joel Manby: Let’s finally put an end to dolphin hunting

Mark Coats: Time to stop fighting school choice

Darryl E. Owens: Donald Trump’s campaigning suggests he is running for prevaricator-in-chief

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