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Guest AuthorAugust 26, 2014

Floridians voted yesterday. But it hardly mattered. Worse than gerrymandered, Florida’s voting districts have now been “terrymandered,” thanks to Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis. The whole sordid affair is enough to make a manic-depressive out of all Floridians who care about clean government. For a euphoric nanosecond, it looked like Florida was about to enjoy […]

Guest AuthorAugust 26, 2014

Recently my incorrigible publisher, Peter Schorsch, made national news stopping a feel-good, pay-it-forward event at Starbucks. After several hundred people continued a chain of buying coffee drinks for the people behind them, Peter, a statewide troublemaker who never met a controversy he didn’t enjoy, said no and stopped it. Imagine my surprise. Part of Peter’s […]

Guest AuthorAugust 26, 2014

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I recently overheard one manager ask another if he knew a nurse who was looking for a job. After a moment of thinking, he remembered someone. Within a week, an offer of employment was made for a great-paying job with a wonderful schedule. It is a position that will open doors and create opportunities as […]

Guest AuthorAugust 25, 2014

As someone who has worked for institutions of higher education for more than four decades, it is especially embarrassing for me that colleges have the worst record in sports for hiring women and people of color. UCF’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport released the 2013 College Sport Racial and Gender Report Card this […]

Guest AuthorAugust 24, 2014

The neon green flyer was stuck into my driver’s side door of my pickup truck. Such material usually meets one fate – the trash can, unless it’s the last Sunday before the start of early voting. The Environmental Caucus of Florida’s list of endorsed candidates: Nan Rich for governor. There was no website listed. There […]

Guest AuthorAugust 24, 2014

Florida was lucky that Trayvon Martin’s killing in Sanford in February 2012 did not trigger a riot. But if we consider the anatomy of a riot, we’ll know that it wasn’t simply dumb luck — but the absence of destructive forces. First, the entire country, both black and white, grieved for Trayvon. Apart from some loony […]

Guest AuthorAugust 21, 2014

When a telephone and a stamp were the social media of choice, smacking down trolls was pretty simple: hang up or toss it in the trash can. It could have been that simple in the wicked web world. Today, it’s easy to troll. A handful of keystrokes, dump, run, repeat. The anonymity, the ease of […]

Guest AuthorAugust 20, 2014

I have previously written that I support Amendment 2, the ballot initiative that may finally bring medical marijuana (MMJ) to the state of Florida. It is because there are people in my life for whom I care deeply that would benefit from it. Not to get them stoned, but to give them a greater quality […]

Guest AuthorAugust 20, 2014

We all have dreams. A young couple dreams of purchasing their first home together. New parents dream of the day when they can send their child off to college. Our country is rooted in the American Dream, which tells us that the opportunity for a better life exists for each of us. Those who achieve […]

Guest AuthorAugust 19, 2014

Ferguson is Florida redux. In Miami, in 1980, after four white police officers were acquitted by an all-male, all-white jury of killing Arthur McDuffie, an African-American, some of the worst race riots in America occurred. The violence that erupted went beyond the perceived injustice of the verdict and the particulars of the incident. (At trial, […]

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Stephen Goldstein: Florida Republicans celebrate death of democracy

Catherine Durkin Robinson: Behavior is what’s important, not the motivation

Vanessa Lopez-Littleton: Are diversity and inclusiveness really possible?

Richard Lapchick: The failure of college sport as an equal opportunity employer

Andrew Skerritt: For a party desperate for a gubernatorial winner, Nan Rich’s progressive credentials might not be enough

Rachel Patron: Ferguson, Missouri: The anatomy of a riot

Linda Grist Cunningham: Web trolls are winning because the rest of us won’t smack them down

Gary Stein: Medical marijuana amendment: Forced choices or freedom to treat?

Alex Sanchez: Florida bankers help make dreams come true

Stephen Goldstein: Will Florida be another Ferguson?