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Guest AuthorAugust 28, 2013

Earlier this month, Tesla Motors and PayPal co-founder Elon Musk introduced the Hyperloop to the world. Using solar power to fuel magnetic bursts, a large, train-like tube will propel passengers faster than the speed of sound on a cushion of air from point to point. Musk wants to build it in California. The Hyperloop would […]

Guest AuthorAugust 28, 2013

The recent budgetary restraints the Lee County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) have endured are putting stress on some of the even necessary services, such as public transportation while attempting to not raise taxes. The BOCC has gone to lengths of increasing utility fees and even eliminating their state lobbying budget to save money, but […]

Guest AuthorAugust 28, 2013

Imagine that you are the new United States Secretary of Education and in the interest of higher education reform have put into place on a trial basis a new rating system for our nation’s universities. You create a ranking scale based on a simple A-F formula, taking into account a number of common sense variables […]

Guest AuthorAugust 27, 2013

There was a recent lull in the acrimonious gun-control debate until last week when three Oklahoma teenagers, two black and one white, gunned down a visiting Australian teenager named Christopher Lane out for a jog. Although an estimated 36,000 murders by guns take place in this country each year – that’s four people an hour […]

Guest AuthorAugust 27, 2013

Great fanfare surrounded the nationally-televised opening of the high school football season last weekend when #1 Booker T. Washington of Miami demolished #6 Norcross of Atlanta, 55-0. But a much quieter opening at Booker T. Washington High last year may have actually been more significant – especially to educators and financial planners concerned about the economic […]

Guest AuthorAugust 27, 2013

Most Americans had one of two reactions on the recent 36th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley. Many immediately recalled exactly where they were in 1977 when they heard the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll had died. Other people immediately said, “Who’s Elvis Presley?” These would be people under age 50. Well, not only […]

Guest AuthorAugust 27, 2013

Education is the most important ingredient for the growth and expansion of a lasting and fruitful civil society. The absence of education can be directly linked to most, if not all, of the social ailments we face. Education is the catalyst for all of us to advance in life, both professionally and spiritually. It enables […]

Guest AuthorAugust 27, 2013

Unfortunately it’s become popular of late to attack U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio for his efforts on immigration reform, and the far-right has been particularly vitriolic. Yet, if we consider that any piece of legislation is going to be complex and altered through the political process, then instead of criticizing our junior senator we should be […]

Guest AuthorAugust 26, 2013

In 1988, Florida House Clerk John Phelps and Senate Secretary Joe Brown flipped a coin to determine which chamber would file odd numbered bills, and which even. The House got odds, and have since owned bill number one. For 2014, HB 1 is claimed by Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda with a well-intentioned but misguided measure […]

Guest AuthorAugust 25, 2013

Now comes the President of the United States (hereafter known as POTUS) before the Key West Historic Architecture Review Commission (hereafter known as HARC). “May it please the commission,” says POTUS, “Michele and I are eager to implement sustainable energy practices and we propose installing solar panels on the White House roof.” “Will they be […]

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Ben Kirby: Florida must have a conversation about innovative transportation

Joseph Russo: Time to consolidate Lee County’s fire districts

Jacob Perry: In defense of Tony Bennett

Steve Kurlander: Race complicates the discussion about gun responsibility

William Mattox: What we all need to learn from Booker T. students

Mark O’Brien: Elvis wouldn’t have joined the Tea Party

Ed Moore: It’s essential that we continue to raise education standards

Barney Bishop: Rubio deserves credit, not criticism, for tackling immigration

Karen Cyphers: Time to feed people, not fears: the case against HB 1

Linda Cunningham: Solar panels visible on White House, not in Key West