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Guest AuthorNovember 10, 2015

Imagine your loved ones unable to remember who you are or what you mean to them: Years of memories suddenly lost. Perhaps you no longer recognize the person now living inside a familiar body, the result of major personality shifts that cause sudden and unpredictable mood changes. That’s what my family and I experienced with […]

Shannon NickinsonNovember 10, 2015

It’s Scott Luth’s job to find jobs. As the head of FloridaWest, Escambia County’s economic development agency, Luth is the point-man for selling Pensacola as the pick of the litter in the Southeast. “All the companies that we work with are net importers of wealth and that’s where we focus,” Luth says. “That’s everything from […]

Peter SchorschNovember 10, 2015

State Sen. Joe Negron and Rep. Matt Gaetz filed new draft legislation Tuesday that would put restrictions on daily fantasy sports websites such as DraftKings, FanDuel, and others operating in the state. According to the bill’s language, game operators must register with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and pay related fees. The state would also require them to “implement […]

Mitch PerryNovember 10, 2015

The Marco Rubio campaign is making the most out of the blockbuster story in Tuesday’s New York Times about the Jeb Bush campaign about to go nuclear on Rubio. Specifically, Right to Rise, Bush’s super PAC, is apparently ready to spend $20 million in attacking Rubio. “Part of running for president is you have to put your big […]

Martin DyckmanNovember 9, 2015

It is startling to even think these words, let alone to have to write them, but I’m feeling sympathy for Jeb Bush. He may not welcome that emotion from a liberal who has rarely agreed with him about anything, but there’s a nation at stake. It seems almost unbelievable that the two most qualified of […]

Peter SchorschNovember 9, 2015

As Douglas Adams wrote in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” “We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!” That pretty much describes Florida’s political landscape right now, with a year until Election Day (and, perhaps more astonishingly, just four months to the Presidential Preference Primary). A slew of key state races are as […]

Martin DyckmanNovember 9, 2015

It is startling to even think these words, let alone to have to write them, but I’m feeling sympathy for Jeb Bush. He may not welcome that emotion from a liberal who has rarely agreed with him about anything, but there’s a nation at stake. It seems almost unbelievable that the two most qualified of […]

Jac VerSteegNovember 9, 2015

Way back in 1984, the late, great Chicago newspaperman Mike Royko wrote a column in which he urged readers to lie to pollsters. “Be polite. Talk to them,” Royko coached. “But lie. Don’t give them an honest answer.” Royko wrote that pollsters would collect the results and “feed them into a computer, which will chew […]

Guest AuthorNovember 9, 2015

It’s Veterans Day on Wednesday and I’m even more excited than usual. In researching this column, I learned that as a Vietnam veteran I may be eligible to collect VA disability benefits because I have diabetes – even though I’m sure my tedious year at Phu Cat Air Force Base has nothing to do with […]

Mitch PerryNovember 9, 2015

It was an interesting weekend as the Donald Trump skits flopped on Saturday Night Live and Ben Carson media scrutiny reached a new intensity, but can I talk about football? Actually, how about people who watch football? I was at a tavern yesterday afternoon which was unusually crowded, due to the fact that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers […]

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Marco Rubio and Mario Diaz-Balart in the Florida House. Image via Florida Memory.

Carol Berkowitz: Alzheimer’s Awareness Month a time for difficult conversations

Shannon Nickinson: Try assessing why jobs pass Pensacola by

Legislation filed to regulate daily fantasy sports websites

Mitch Perry Report for 11.10.15 – Right to Rise ready to go nuclear on Rubio?

Martin Dyckman: Jeb Bush-Gotterdammerung, and the rise of Marco Rubio

Peter Schorsch: A year out from Election Day in Florida, confusion, uncertainty reign

Martin Dyckman: Jeb Bush-Gotterdammerung, and the rise of Marco Rubio

Jac VerSteeg: Poll accuracy might be worse than you thought

Tom O’Hara: Don’t thank me for my service, just send my disability check

Mitch Perry Report for 11.9.15 – Peyton Manning in autumn