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Julie DelegalFebruary 24, 2014

Second of three parts. We bristle at the idea that marriage is closely associated with economics, but, as the studies tell us, it is: Men wait to marry until they’re financially ready, and women see it “as a sign of having arrived rather than a way to get there,” as “The New York Times” reported […]

Julie DelegalFebruary 23, 2014

First of three parts. A Jacksonville attorney says that despite all the GOP rhetoric about the importance of matrimony, the Florida Legislature is poised to hasten its demise. Judith Erwin embodies most people’s definition of accomplishment, but she’s not so sure. She’s a successful family law attorney. She recently published her first novel, “Shadow of […]

Julie DelegalFebruary 16, 2014

The wind and rain plunged us all into the bone-chilling 40-degree range. But the weather didn’t keep the leadership apparatus of the Republican Party of Florida — or its Jacksonville loyalists — from showing up for Charlie Crist’s book signing. Crist, a former Republican governor now running for his old job as a Democrat, is […]

Julie DelegalFebruary 9, 2014

To the jurors in the Michael Dunn murder trial: don’t read this. I’m the columnist Judge Russell Healey warned you about. This is a media account he doesn’t want you to read. In a nutshell, I agree with the father of Jordan Davis, the 17-year-old youth who was shot outside of a Jacksonville gas station […]

Julie DelegalFebruary 6, 2014

Duval County School Board member Jason Fischer, a rising young conservative in North Florida, wrote an admirable op-ed on transparency and accountability for our public schools. Most citizens would agree that while the school-grading system needs major tweaking, accountability is a good thing. Fischer advocates for full disclosure of data that relates not only to […]

Julie DelegalFebruary 5, 2014

You’ve got to hand it to him: Charlie Crist is scrappy. Striking back against the Republican Party in the web-video wars, the former-and-would-be Florida governor lobbed a grenade: “[R]emember, it was guys like Rick Scott who crashed our economy.” In a video, the Florida GOP, which helped put Crist in office the first time, essentially […]

Julie DelegalJanuary 20, 2014

There is a middle-aged man I know who lives in a small structure — not the “main house” — on his family’s rural property. The man is fond of alcohol, which might have something to do with why he lost his job and his marriage. In his eyes, though, the troubles in his life trace […]

Julie DelegalJanuary 8, 2014

Context Florida’s Steve Kurlander applauded U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for blocking the contraception mandate from the Affordable Care Act, more widely known as “Obamacare. Catholic leaders asked her to do it because they didn’t want to provide medical care that violates their religious teachings. The Obama administration has alleviated their concerns, however, by […]

Julie DelegalJanuary 5, 2014

It’s a principle of our representative democracy that we, the people, don’t weigh in on every bit of minutia entailed in making laws and policy. The oft-quoted maxim, usually attributed to Prussian statesman Otto Von Bismark, posits that lawmaking, like sausage-making, is a process better left unviewed. But at what points in the “sausage-making” should […]

Julie DelegalDecember 3, 2013

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan recently said that “suburban” moms, whose children are about to face the higher hurdles of the Common Core State Standards, would soon discover that “their child isn’t as bright as they thought they were.” In one pithy, impolitic sound bite, Duncan brushes aside deep and unanswered concerns about the reform […]

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Julie Delegal: The end of marriage? The economics of being married

Julie Delegal: The end of marriage? Alimony reform would mean more divorce

Julie Delegal: Blame our uncivil politics on gerrymandering and ideologues

Julie Delegal: Florida is not my “castle”

Julie Delegal: Private-voucher schools must show how they spend tax dollars

Julie Delegal: Scrappy is not enough, but Jacksonville’s got plenty

Julie Delegal: America has too much anger and too many guns

Julie Delegal: The Little Sisters’ ludicrous litigation

Julie Delegal: Voters benefit when the ‘sausage’ is made in public

Julie Delegal: If we ignore poverty, any education reform will fail