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Guest AuthorNovember 29, 2015

If you want to be simultaneously appalled and inspired, go see the movie “Spotlight.” It’s about the Boston Globe’s 2001-2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Boston archdiocese’s decades-long cover-up of child sex abuse by its priests and brothers. The film is unusual because it portrays people doing actual journalism. There are no gaggles of goofballs […]

Guest AuthorNovember 28, 2015

The first and most important responsibility of the U.S. president is to protect our national security interests around the world and defend the homeland. After years of reckless defense cuts and a failed lead-from-behind foreign policy from Barack Obama, the global challenges facing the next commander-in-chief will be profound. The stakes in this election couldn’t […]

Guest AuthorNovember 26, 2015

For most Americans, food scarcity is when we wait until the last minute and the exact brand of low-fat, gluten-free, heart healthy, fair trade, organic, local, hand-crafted marshmallow is sold out, forcing us to “make do’” with an inferior sweet potato casserole topping. Though the grocery stores may temporarily run low on the must-have holiday […]

Guest AuthorNovember 25, 2015

When President Abraham Lincoln wrote all of his Thanksgiving Proclamations, it was during a time of war. Most of us know the Civil War, maybe not all its ins and outs, but the gist of the deal. The war wrought havoc on the “mystic chords” of national unity that had held the nation together through […]

Peter SchorschNovember 25, 2015

From the diners and town halls of Iowa and New Hampshire to the governor’s mansion in Tallahassee and from … to Charlie Crist’s waterfront condominium in St. Petersburg, politicians across Florida will gather at Thanksgiving dinner tables to celebrate the most American of holidays. Before they dig into dishes of stuffed Florida zucchini and yellow squash Parmesan and Florida snap […]

Staff ReportsNovember 25, 2015

Consumer sentiment among Floridians rose more than 2 points in November to 91.5, up more than 5 points compared with November last year, according to the latest University of Florida consumer survey. Among the five components that make up the index, four increased and one declined. Perception of personal finance now compared with a year […]

Guest AuthorNovember 24, 2015

The day typically starts with the boy, 1-and-a-half, waking up too early. He’s tired, he’s fussy, and if I don’t get Elmo and his friends on “Sesame Street” on the TV fast, things will go downhill. If we’re lucky, his 3-year-old sister, who is a late sleeper like her mother, will get up on her […]

Diane RobertsNovember 24, 2015

It’s America’s holiday season, when we’re supposed to give thanks for our blessings, when we gather around tables laden with festive food, commemorating a bedraggled boatload of refugees who just showed up one day on our shores, needing a decent meal and a safe place to crash. The Wampanoag welcomed those undocumented immigrants back in […]

Bill PrescottNovember 24, 2015

The sensationalized attacks by ISIS terrorist in Paris and the allegations that one or more had entered Europe as “Syrian refugees” suddenly awoke shaken (and clueless) Americans to an enormous, ongoing humanitarian disaster that’s changing the world as we know it. The Parisian attacks got Americans nervous again about Islamic terrorism. ISIS effectively took the […]

Florence SnyderNovember 24, 2015

Distracted driving is as old as driving. A Tin Lizzie could turn deathtrap in an instant if the driver shifted his peripheral vision from the road ahead to the map on his lap or the pal in the passenger seat. In 1930, Motorola founders Paul and Joseph Galvin and William Lear of Lear jet fame, […]

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Tom O’Hara: “Spotlight” shows journalism at its best, Catholic Church at its worst

Jeb Bush: A clear choice on national security

Adam Putnam: Thank farmers, ranchers for ample Thanksgiving bounty

Chris Timmons: Remember, above all, your gratitude

Peter Schorsch: Florida's pols owe plenty of thanks this holiday

Florida consumer sentiment ticks up in November in time for holiday sales

Ben Kirby: Thanksgiving is a time to think of less fortunate families

Diane Roberts: Who vetted the guest list?

Steven Kurlander: Banning Refugees could diminish American exceptionalism

Florence Snyder: No matter the tech, distracted driving is dangerous