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Ryan RayFebruary 9, 2015

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Reggie Fullwood led a crowd of friends and supporters to the polls on Saturday to highlight the beginning of Early Voting in his state House District 13 special election. In doing so, he may have made a legitimate dent in the final election tally — Duval County Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland says his office is expecting a […]

Jac VerSteegFebruary 9, 2015

How sad that Skip Foster, new president and publisher of the Tallahassee Democrat, has decreed that his newspaper no longer will endorse political candidates. I expect that soon he and Gannet will need to change the paper’s name to the Tallahassee No Party Affiliation. This is almost certainly a business decision. Foster, like many people […]

Gary FineoutFebruary 9, 2015

The fate of Florida’s signature private-school voucher program – which began when Jeb Bush was governor – could soon be decided by a circuit judge. Opponents to the state’s tax credit scholarship program squared off for nearly two hours Monday against lawyers representing the state and parents of children enrolled in the program. Judge George […]

Gary FineoutFebruary 9, 2015

The fate of Florida’s signature private-school voucher program – which began when Jeb Bush was governor – could soon be decided by a circuit judge. Opponents to the state’s tax credit scholarship program squared off for nearly two hours Monday against lawyers representing the state and parents of children enrolled in the program. Judge George […]

Associated PressFebruary 9, 2015

Just 12 hours before police say a man threw his 5-year-old daughter to her death off a Tampa Bay bridge last month, his own attorney called Florida’s child abuse hotline, warning that his client was suffering from mental delusions. But the hotline operator didn’t refer the call to investigators because she didn’t think the child […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 9, 2015

February is national Career and Technical Education month, and across the country educators and counselors are preparing America’s next generation of skilled workers. In just a few months, students will graduate from high school, and many aren’t sure of their next step. Florida’s construction contractors face a related but different problem: a major shortage of skilled […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 9, 2015

Like most everyone else in Florida politics, I read with interest the Tampa Bay Times‘ profile of Rick Scott’s Chief of Staff, Melissa Sellers. Because I have personally done almost as much research on Sellers as Times reporters Adam Smith and Steve Bousquet, there wasn’t much that they wrote that surprised me. In fact — and this is […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 9, 2015

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are the three unalienable rights that the Declaration of Independence says have been given to all of us by the “Creator,” and that governments are created to protect. Were the Declaration to be updated for the 21st century, could it be amended to include a right to hail […]

Martin DyckmanFebruary 9, 2015

Glenn Terrell, a Florida Supreme Court justice for 41 years, kept a thick file with such titles as “God, the Original Segregationist,” “The Bible Answers the Race Question,” and “God Gave the Law of Segregation (as well as the 10 Commandments) to Moses on Mount Sinai.” Upon voting to keep a black man out of […]

Marc YachtFebruary 9, 2015

A new politically correct buzzword joins such classics as, New Sincerity (that is passé), Disruptive Innovation (big trouble), the need to Walk Back that comment (oops!), and Disingenuous Statement (lie)! Welcome Anti-Vaxxers. This growing legion of the misinformed refuses their children lifesaving vaccinations. Vaccines stand accused by one prominent conservative doctor-politician of potentially causing mental […]

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Reggie Fullwood rallies the Jacksonville faithful at early voting kickoff event

Jac Wilder VerSteeg: The rise of gutless newspapers

Crucial legal question confronts Florida's voucher program

Crucial legal question confronts Florida’s voucher program

Hotline ignored calls on girl thrown over bridge by dad

Steve Cona: Construction industry has opportunities to build a career

Make fun of Melissa Sellers all you want, but not for this…

Peter Schorsch: Raise a toast to disruption in Tallahassee

Martin Dyckman: Reject bigotry and evil perpetrated in name of religion

Marc Yacht: 'Anti-Vaxxers' politically correct, medically incorrect