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Guest AuthorDecember 2, 2015

Hillary Clinton is coming back to the Sunshine State this week, but she won’t be getting a warm welcome: A recent poll published by the Florida Atlantic University asserts that Clinton’s disapproval rating in Florida has skyrocketed with 56 percent of Floridians viewing the “often confused” former first lady unfavorably. This is tough news for […]

Mitch PerryDecember 2, 2015

A new national Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday morning shows Hillary Clinton walking away with the Democratic nomination for president, about two months before the Iowa caucuses. Clinton leads Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders by 30 percentage points, 60-30 percent. No doubt Clinton enthusiasts will be reveling in that new nugget when they gather Wednesday afternoon […]

Guest AuthorDecember 1, 2015

I resign from the Republican Party. I’ve hung in there for a while, and I’ve hoped that the current spate of crazy was just the normal primary nonsense. But at this point I really see nothing of what I believe in any of the viable candidates. The front-runner’s campaign slogan of “Heil Trump” is simply […]

Julie DelegalDecember 1, 2015

The publisher of my hometown newspaper has declared there’s no war on women. Frank Denton’s recent column in The Florida Times-Union, “Political buzzwords we could do without,” was edifying for the most part. He made good points about retiring phrases, most of them martial in nature, that polarize the electorate and trivialize the most horrible […]

Sally SwartzDecember 1, 2015

The fight to stop All Aboard Florida from ruining Treasure Coast downtowns and neighborhoods, slowing ambulances and endangering pedestrians at railway crossings is far from over. In fact, a spokesman for Citizens Against Rail Expansion (CARE FL) said his group of 15,000 already has raised and spent $1.4 million and is working to raise another […]

Florence SnyderDecember 1, 2015

At long last, there’s an edge-of-seat movie about journalism where the woman on the I-Team is not sleeping with her boss or her source. That’s just one of a million things to love about “Spotlight.” It’s a two-hour cinematic distillation of two years in the lives of Boston Globe reporters as they piece together the […]

Martin DyckmanDecember 1, 2015

The corpus delicti lay in plain view. The circumstantial evidence was obvious. Everyone knew who did it. The courts, though, couldn’t act without proof the offense was deliberate. That’s not about a crime in the usual sense. Rather, it describes why it’s taking so long to replace the Legislature’s gerrymandered voting districts with maps that […]

Mitch PerryDecember 1, 2015

If you don’t know of anyone who is caught up in the Florida corrections system, stories about the care of prisoners may not matter much to you at all. But they have been disturbing, particularly regarding the state of health care for those who incarcerated. Rick Scott ran for office in 2010 promising to privatize […]

Florence SnyderNovember 30, 2015

At long last, there’s an edge-of-seat movie about journalism where the woman on the I-Team is not sleeping with her boss or her source. That’s just one of a million things to love about “Spotlight.” It’s a two-hour cinematic distillation of two years in the lives of Boston Globe reporters as they piece together the […]

Guest AuthorNovember 30, 2015

Last month, I suffered through a miserable lunch at a local restaurant, a place where I usually dine and know the owner well. The food and service were fine, but I happened to sit near a young mother and her 1-year -old who had a healthy set of lungs. The mother was accompanied by a […]

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Blaise Ingoglia: Cloudy forecast for Hillary Clinton’s Sunshine State visit

Mitch Perry Report for 12.2.15 – Here’s Hillary … and her plan to begin fixing our infrastructure needs

Scott Weese: GOP has finally gone too far

Julie Delegal: No war on women? I disagree

Sally Swartz: All Aboard Florida needs to take new route

Florence Snyder: Church scandal underscores importance of press

Martin Dyckman: Florida should adopt an independent redistricting commission

Mitch Perry Report for 12.1.15 – Corizon Health Care terminates contract with Florida prisons. That’s not a bad thing

Florence Snyder: Church scandal underscores importance of press

Tim Bryce: Sometimes parents need a little parenting