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Guest AuthorNovember 29, 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 28, 2015

The first and most important responsibility of the U.S. president is to protect our national security interests around the world and defend the homeland. After years of reckless defense cuts and a failed lead-from-behind foreign policy from Barack Obama, the global challenges facing the next commander-in-chief will be profound. The stakes in this election couldn’t […]

Guest AuthorNovember 26, 2015

For most Americans, food scarcity is when we wait till the last minute and the exact brand of low-fat, gluten-free, heart healthy, fair trade, organic, local, hand-crafted marshmallow is sold out, forcing us to ‘make do’ with an inferior sweet potato casserole topping. Though the grocery stores may temporarily run low on the must-have holiday […]

Guest AuthorNovember 26, 2015

For most Americans, food scarcity is when we wait until the last minute and the exact brand of low-fat, gluten-free, heart healthy, fair trade, organic, local, hand-crafted marshmallow is sold out, forcing us to “make do’” with an inferior sweet potato casserole topping. Though the grocery stores may temporarily run low on the must-have holiday […]

Guest AuthorNovember 25, 2015

When President Abraham Lincoln wrote all of his Thanksgiving Proclamations, it was during a time of war. Most of us know the Civil War, maybe not all its ins and outs, but the gist of the deal. The war wrought havoc on the “mystic chords” of national unity that had held the nation together through […]

Guest AuthorNovember 24, 2015

The day typically starts with the boy, 1-and-a-half, waking up too early. He’s tired, he’s fussy, and if I don’t get Elmo and his friends on “Sesame Street” on the TV fast, things will go downhill. If we’re lucky, his 3-year-old sister, who is a late sleeper like her mother, will get up on her […]

Guest AuthorNovember 24, 2015

Oh, geez. The governor of Florida has permanently foreclosed the possibility that people will ever take him as anything other than a fool. Here are the facts: Gov. Rick Scott says it would be dangerous for Florida to accept 425 (though that is, in fact, unknown but Scott clings to it) Syrian refugees because of […]

Guest AuthorNovember 24, 2015

About this time of year the past several years, my husband can’t help but comment on the total departure from the “traditional” Thanksgiving feast available at our family’s gathering. He says something along the lines of: “I’m pretty sure the Pilgrims at Plymouth did not have pernil on their table during their Thanksgiving celebration.” (For […]

Guest AuthorNovember 24, 2015

In the place where folks sport T-shirts proclaiming, “Key West. Where the weird go pro,” the only actual weird about Thanksgiving is that there’s no weird. Here we are, half way between the truly over-the-top weird of Fantasy Fest-Halloween and the run-up to not one, but three jaw-droppingly weird New Year’s Eve celebrations, and there’s […]

Guest AuthorNovember 23, 2015

Oh, geez. The governor of Florida has permanently foreclosed the possibility that people will ever take him as anything other than a fool. Here are the facts: Gov. Rick Scott says it would be dangerous for Florida to accept 425 (though that is, in fact, unknown but Scott clings to it) Syrian refugees because of […]

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

Jeb Bush: A clear choice on national security

Adam Putnam: Thank farmers, ranchers for ample Thanksgiving bounty

Adam Putnam: Thank farmers, ranchers for ample Thanksgiving bounty

Chris Timmons: Remember, above all, your gratitude

Ben Kirby: Thanksgiving is a time to think of less fortunate families

Chris Timmons: Refugee issue brings out Rick Scott’s inner xenophobe

Maritza Martinez: We have many menus, but Thanksgiving is for everyone

Linda Cunningham: There’s nothing weird about a Key West Thanksgiving

Chris Timmons: Refugee issue brings out Rick Scott’s inner xenophobe