Emails & Opinions

Martin DyckmanApril 23, 2017

When former Florida Gov. LeRoy Collins was nominated in 1964 to head the nation’s new Community Relations Service, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond opposed him aggressively because Collins had renounced racial segregation. “…I hope that as long as the good Lord lets me live on this earth I will continue to grow and to recognize […]

Bob SparksApril 23, 2017

According to Sen. Charles Grassley, the U.S. Supreme Court may need to fill another opening this summer. The Iowa Republican, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, did not name names, but rumors are swirling it could be the Court’s swing vote, 80-year-old Anthony Kennedy. If that occurs, President Trump will go back to his list of […]

Blake DowlingApril 22, 2017

What now? More breaches. More leaks. Internet carriers selling your data? Hackers coming at us like United Airlines security? (For an interesting read, see Nader v. Airlines 1972) So you are worried about hackers, and — of course — the National Security Agency is watching (and logging) you surf on PredictIT.com or Lolcats.com. Or are […]

Peter SchorschApril 22, 2017

Richard Corcoran says he loves Gov. Rick Scott “to death,” but is getting weary of the “slings and arrows” he’s taken from him over the last couple of months. It’s the continuing battle over VISIT FLORIDA, the state’s public-private tourism marketing arm, which the House speaker still believes needs to be reined in and […]

Guest AuthorApril 22, 2017

In every corner of our state, severe drought conditions have made Florida a tinderbox. Roughly 100 wildfires are currently burning about 75,000 acres, and our Florida Forest Service wildland firefighters are working side-by-side with partnering agencies to battle these fires and protect life, property and wildlife. On Friday, Collier County had to evacuate approximately 7,000 […]

Florence SnyderApril 21, 2017

In the wake of two suicides of teenage foster children in their “care,” the “leadership team” of Miami’s “community-based care” agency took their marbles and accrued benefits and went home. Judging from their whiny, self-involved letters of resignation, the agency’s name — Our Kids — refers to the six-figure people running the place, and not […]

Guest AuthorApril 21, 2017

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On a sunny day in Florida, I watched the American flag rise and fly over hundreds of acres of solar cells. It was an amazing experience to think the million panels I was looking at in Manatee County were replacing energy from conventional fuel combustion plants. Yet this solar field feeding directly into the power grid […]

Peter SchorschApril 21, 2017

More “scared jackrabbits” running for re-election This week another Democrat made a strong run at claiming a traditional GOP seat in Congress. After a near-miss in a deep-red district in Nebraska, Jon Ossoff nearly gained a majority against 17 other candidates in Georgia’s 6th District, where Republican candidates always win by double digits. Ossoff will still […]

Peter SchorschApril 21, 2017

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry and Jim Rosica. IN NON-FRANK ARTILES NEWS … Yes, scientists feel they’re under attack by politics too, and like minority groups, women, gun advocates, gun opponents, social activists, and others, they’re taking it to the […]

Guest AuthorApril 20, 2017

William Forrester was 52-years-old, on disability, and suffering from numerous health problems when he was arrested in 2008. His offense? A pharmacist filled a fraudulent prescription for 120 oxycodone pills. When he came back the next month to have another prescription filled, which was also fraudulent, the pharmacist called the doctor, who told her he […]

Emails & Opinions

Martin Dyckman: On death warrants, Florida governor’s ‘awesome moral responsibility’

If another SCOTUS opening occurs, will Charles Canady get a serious look?

Blake Dowling: Look out for hackers (and the government)

Takeaways from Tallahassee — Richard Corcoran’s ‘sea of troubles’

Adam Putnam: Florida is a tinderbox, Florida Forest Service works around the clock

Florence Snyder: Why children die, Part 4 — Clues in the resignation letters

Eric Draper: Florida making smart progress on solar

The Delegation for 4.21.17 — Insights from the Beltway to the Sunshine State

Sunburn for 4.21.17 – Artiles, Artiles, Artiles, bills are dying, Artiles

Mark Holden: A ‘safety valve’ needed for drug mandatory minimum sentencing