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Guest AuthorApril 30, 2014

The fact that Context Florida columnist Julie Delegal doesn’t think anyone should take on Florida’s education reforms if they want to win an election is great news for Florida’s children. This means that Floridians are no longer buying the myths Ms. Delegal and her friends of the status quo continue to perpetuate about Florida’s suite […]

Guest AuthorApril 30, 2014

The definition of a common carrier is a person or company that transports goods or passengers on regular routes at set rates. Last year the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had a tough time with labeling Internet service providers (ISPs) as common carriers, despite the fact that they provide transportation of data at a set rate. […]

Guest AuthorApril 30, 2014

I’m saddened by the fact that electronic communication has seemingly replaced the letter. I consider the work of the U.S. Postal Service one of the greatest values around today. To have a letter go 3,000 or more miles in a couple of days at a piddling cost amazes me. It costs me as much in […]

Guest AuthorApril 30, 2014

The State of Florida through chapter 760 of the Florida Statutes provides vital protection against discrimination for individuals on the basis of several categories, including sex, color, and religion. One category of individuals noticeably missing from such beneficial protection is pregnant women. Federal law has afforded them protection since 1978. Over the last decade, there […]

Guest AuthorApril 29, 2014

A monkey should easily be able to drum Gov. Rick Scott out of office in November — unless it’s a Democrat. The donkey party is in danger of seizing defeat from the jaws of victory. They have a clear, fusion candidate in frontrunner Charlie Crist. And yet, instead of unifying behind him, some Democrats, even […]

Guest AuthorApril 29, 2014

Earlier this month, yet another disturbed student rampaged through a school, stabbing 20 students and a security guard with a pair of knives. Alex Hribal, a junior at Franklin Regional High School near Pittsburgh, walked into the school at the beginning of the school day and slashed and stabbed his way through the school’s packed […]

Guest AuthorApril 29, 2014

Monday was Workers Memorial Day, the day we remember the workers who have died, suffered, or been made ill on the jobsite, union and non-union. Even one workplace fatality is one too many, and losing your life should never be part of the job description. Four decades ago, Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health […]

Guest AuthorApril 28, 2014

On a Thursday night in December, in a rural Panhandle town, a 50-year-old woman looked at her husband during dinner and noticed his normally handsome face had morphed into an odd appearance, with the left lip sagging downward. She asked her husband how he felt, and the response was gibberish. They both recognized that these […]

Guest AuthorApril 28, 2014

Florida legislators demanding more “accountability” as a condition for expanding the state’s premier school-choice program could learn a very valuable lesson from the example set by the late, great Mary McLeod Bethune. When Bethune opened her Daytona School for Negro Girls in 1904, she knew success would depend on satisfying two different constituencies — parents […]

Guest AuthorApril 28, 2014

Senate Bill 1714 has come under heavy scrutiny from the media, public and most ardently, craft brewers. Today, I want to set the record straight, as there is a small, but vocal faction of the beer industry that has clouded this issue by promulgating misinformation. First, I want to establish that I am, and always […]

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Kate Wallace: School choice threatens certain adults, not children and their academic achievement

Jon Tietz: How municipalities can end the net neutrality debate

UCF Forum’s Rich Sloane: U.S. Postal Service gets my stamp of approval

Mario Valle: Discrimination against pregnant women in Florida will not be tolerated

Stephen Goldstein: Nan Rich should drop out of the governor’s race

Steve Kurlander: School violence: More social workers needed, not cops or guns

Lynn Webb: Despite progress for workers, many job hazards still exist

Jason Wilson and Janet Cruz: Legislature needs to pass strong telemedicine bill

William Mattox: Private schools must pass the ‘Mary McLeod Bethune’ test

Sen. Kelli Stargel: Amendment designed to find common ground in beer battle