Emails & Opinions

Joe HendersonSeptember 29, 2016

I think we have one of our first major campaign issues for the 2018 race to succeed Rick Scott as Florida’s governor. Any serious candidate who doesn’t come out strongly in favor of seriously beefing up the state Department of Environmental Protection will miss a great opportunity. In just the last couple of months alone, […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 29, 2016

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry and Jim Rosica. THE FUTURE, BY THE NUMBERS The numbers seem staggering. Fifty-seven percent of Florida children are on free and reduced lunch; and 11.6 percent of Florida children are obese. And despite a per […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 29, 2016

First of all, congratulations to the uber-hip readers at Creative Loafing who, in their Best of the Bay voting for Best Reporter in 2016, selected a columnist who retired two years ago. Congratulations also to our U.S. Congress who, by voting for a budget bill last to avoid a government shutdown, now gets to skip town for […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 28, 2016

W.E.B. Dubois once said, “To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.” I hear Dubois when I see the academic results for black students. Year after year, the outcomes remain unbearable and unconscionable. More than 60 years after the U.S. Supreme Court declared an official end to separate-but-unequal schools, only […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 28, 2016

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry and Jim Rosica. THE MOST IMPORTANT NUMBER OF THE 2017 LEGISLATIVE SESSION … … is 14.5. As in a 14.5 percent hike in the cost of premiums for new and renewed workers’ compensation coverage in […]

Tom JacksonSeptember 28, 2016

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Paraphrasing the driver in “Taxi” when he approached the gorgeous blonde in the bar: “You look like the kind of voter who’s heard every debate takedown in the book. … So I guess one more won’t hurt.” Let’s begin by conceding that nobody knows anything anymore. There’s not a single conventional thinker who thought Donald […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 28, 2016

During the first half-hour or so of Monday night’s presidential debate, there was plenty of chatter on Twitter on what appeared to be a case of the sniffles being suffered by Donald J. Trump. Former Vermont governor and NBC News commentator Howard Dean speculated it might have to do with cocaine use. “Notice Trump sniffing all the time. Coke […]

Paul SeagoSeptember 27, 2016

Outside of those in Nevada, the people of New Jersey have the most experience with casino gambling. They have seen it rise on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. And they have seen it crumble. So their attitude about gambling expansion is relevant to the ongoing discussion about expanded gambling in Florida. After all, who knows the […]

Martin DyckmanSeptember 27, 2016

Your vote is a terrible thing to waste. That lesson was demonstrated 16 years ago, when his contested margin of 537 votes in Florida made George W. Bush president of the United States. From that came the invasion of Iraq and the present turmoil and bloodshed in the Middle East, the Supreme Court nominations of […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 27, 2016

With six weeks remaining in the 2016 presidential race, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump squared off Monday night in the first of three debates. The spectacle reminded voters how much has changed in American politics since his virtuous dealings as a lawyer in the Illinois circuit courts in the 1850s earned Abraham Lincoln the nickname […]

Emails & Opinions

Joe Henderson: Issue 1 in 2018 Gov’s race, fixing Florida’s environment

Sunburn for 9.29.16 — Behold, the future

Mitch Perry Report for 9.29.16 — Congress is free to go home. Again.

Mark Coats: Time to stop fighting school choice

Sunburn for 9.28.16 – 14.5%

Tom Jackson: Donald Trump lost, big league … or did he?

Mitch Perry Report for 9.28.16 — Our bodies, our politicians

Paul Seago: More casinos in New Jersey? Fuggedaboudit!

Martin Dyckman: Now is no time for exalted idealism

Darryl E. Owens: Donald Trump’s campaigning suggests he is running for prevaricator-in-chief