Emails & Opinions

Blake DowlingFebruary 17, 2018

The latest cyberthreat … This is a nice sequel to my bitcoin article last month. Everyone loves a sequel right? Except for Smokey and the Bandit 3. (Come on man. Burt wasn’t even in the movie.) OK, there is a new cyber threat that involves criminals diving into the bitcoin mining world. Part 1 is […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 16, 2018

Like many of you, I have spent the last two days mourning the tragic loss of life at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a loss of life that was caused by an assault rifle legally purchased in Coral Springs. This community lost daughters, sons, siblings, husbands, cousins and friends. Feb. 14, 2018, will forever be […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 16, 2018

Another day, another hot take on the crowded Democratic primary in Florida’s 27th Congressional District. According to POLITICO Florida, Donna Shalala’s possible entrance into the race has one candidate downright giddy, or at least showing a good poker face. State Representative David Richardson believes Shalala’s record as Secretary of Health & Human Services will be […]

Joe HendersonFebruary 16, 2018

We hear a lot of talk from NRA-backed lawmakers about protecting the Second Amendment rights of gun owners. As events in South Florida have shown though, they aren’t quite as bullish on gun control that might protect the rights of people to live. Too harsh? Maybe. But seriously, how should those politicians expect people to react? […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 16, 2018

Before we get to federal and state news, let’s take a look at local drama. In what has been the roughest week for Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, his administration pushed forth to a skeptical City Council and the querulous crowd a controversial report Wednesday urging the sale of the local public utility. The valuation study […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 15, 2018

Sixty Days — A prime-time look at the 2018 Legislative Session The Last 24 Good Thursday evening. Adam Putnam is backing off for now on a request to make getting a concealed-carry permit easier, and help is on the way for opioid abuse. For the record, the hardest thing in the Sixty Days medicine cabinet […]

Joe HendersonFebruary 15, 2018

Gun control? That’s a laugh, given the culture of political complicity created by the National Rifle Association. In the alternate universe in which NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre and his army of lawmakers throughout live, more guns “make America safe and free.” That’s what he said before the NRA’s 2013 meeting in Houston. Safe? I wonder […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 15, 2018

Immediately following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Hollywood, reluctant to exploit terrorism plot lines, postponed the Arnold Schwarzenegger film “Collateral Damage” because it featured Colombian terrorists bent on attacking the U.S. A 2015 film about Islamic terrorists determined to attack Paris was shelved after shooters and suicide bombers targeted a concert hall, a major stadium, restaurants and bars, […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 15, 2018

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Ana Ceballos, Daniel McAuliffe, and Jim Rosica. — NO WORDS — “17 die in a barrage of bullets” via Audra Burch and Patricia Mazzei of the New York Times – A heavily armed young man barged into his former high […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 15, 2018

More than 1,100 children were prosecuted as adults in Florida last year — taken from their homes, removed from their schools, and locked up in adult jails. Although children’s brains are still developing, and they cannot fully understand the consequences of their actions, our criminal justice system treats some of them like grown adults. They […]

Emails & Opinions

Blake Dowling: The new threat … cryptojacking

Joshua Simmons: Stop the posturing, do something about assault rifles

Donna Shalala’s candidacy wouldn’t put CD 27 into play, right? RIGHT?

Joe Henderson: Can we talk about gun control? Didn’t think so

Jacksonville Bold for 2.16.18 — Power play

Sixty Days for 2.15.18 — A prime-time look at the 2018 Legislative Session

Joe Henderson: Gun control? Politicians make sure we don’t have a prayer

Mr. Speaker, take down that ad

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics – 2.15.18

Scott McCoy: Children do not belong in adult jails