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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, […]

Guest AuthorNovember 24, 2015

About this time of year the past several years, my husband can’t help but comment on the total departure from the “traditional” Thanksgiving feast available at our family’s gathering. He says something along the lines of: “I’m pretty sure the Pilgrims at Plymouth did not have pernil on their table during their Thanksgiving celebration.” (For […]

Guest AuthorNovember 24, 2015

In the place where folks sport T-shirts proclaiming, “Key West. Where the weird go pro,” the only actual weird about Thanksgiving is that there’s no weird. Here we are, half way between the truly over-the-top weird of Fantasy Fest-Halloween and the run-up to not one, but three jaw-droppingly weird New Year’s Eve celebrations, and there’s […]

Guest AuthorNovember 23, 2015

Oh, geez. The governor of Florida has permanently foreclosed the possibility that people will ever take him as anything other than a fool. Here are the facts: Gov. Rick Scott says it would be dangerous for Florida to accept 425 (though that is, in fact, unknown but Scott clings to it) Syrian refugees because of […]

Bill PrescottNovember 23, 2015

Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful for family. This year, I’m particularly grateful that I got to meet a descendant of my Wild West relatives. I’d never been to Jackson Hole, but when our plane landed in August, the picturesque Wyoming town felt familiar. The Grand Tetons, dotted with pines, rise abruptly around the […]

Martin DyckmanNovember 22, 2015

The letters, mailed from Vienna in the summer of 1938, spoke of enthusiasm and hopefulness at the prospect of coming to the United States. Nothing revealed the reason except for the stationery that had been hand-altered to show a new address. It was a few months after Hitler had taken over and life was becoming […]

Guest AuthorNovember 22, 2015

It’s a shame President Barack Obama missed the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show this month. He would have been so proud of all he’s done for the rich. As the boat show demonstrated, wealthy people are doing really, really well these days. For example, Danielle Butler, president of the Marine Industries Association of South Florida, told […]

Guest AuthorNovember 22, 2015

The world of Information Technology throws buzzwords and catch phrases around like Tom Cruise does liquor bottles in the movie “Cocktail.” How in the world was that film a success by the way? Oh man, the ‘80s. Anyway, in 2015 we’ve heard about The Cloud, Big Data, Corporate Vulnerability, Mobile, Smart, the Internet of Things, […]

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Wekiva High School Winners and Florida ProStart Leaders Celebrate Fourth Place Win on stage. Image via Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association Educational Foundation.

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

Maritza Martinez: We have many menus, but Thanksgiving is for everyone

Linda Cunningham: There’s nothing weird about a Key West Thanksgiving

Chris Timmons: Refugee issue brings out Rick Scott’s inner xenophobe

Sally Swartz: Western roots flavor family thanks

Martin Dyckman: They pander the repulsive to the bigoted

Tom O’Hara: We must invite the president to next year’s Fort Lauderdale Boat Show

Blake Dowling: Technology buzzwords and catch phrases — what does it all mean?