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Guest AuthorNovember 2, 2015

If you believe that smoking cures cancer and rainfall is a fix for flooding, then Gov. Rick Scott has some health care proposals for you. Scott wants to foist a battery of new regulations onto about 129 hospitals across Florida in 2016 as a means of improving health care. He has proposed requiring them to […]

Jac VerSteegNovember 2, 2015

As the prospects for President Jeb Bush fade, his fans should consider a fallback plan: U.S. Sen. Jeb Bush, R-Florida. That goal has many advantages. It allows Jeb to concentrate on a single state, and a state that knows him better than Iowa or New Hampshire. He has higher name recognition in Florida than any […]

Mitch PerryNovember 2, 2015

Good Monday morning to you all. I went to the cinema yesterday before settling back and watching the later games on the NFL schedule yesterday, seeing the new Bradley Cooper vehicle, “Burnt.” Have you heard about it? In it, the Oscar-nominated star plays a ‘bad-boy’ chef who reached the highs and delved into the lower […]

Jac VerSteegNovember 1, 2015

As the prospects for President Jeb Bush fade, his fans should consider a fallback plan: U.S. Sen. Jeb Bush, R-Florida. That goal has many advantages. It allows Jeb to concentrate on a single state, and a state that knows him better than Iowa or New Hampshire. He has higher name recognition in Florida than any […]

Guest AuthorNovember 1, 2015

If you believe that smoking cures cancer and rainfall is a fix for flooding, then Gov. Rick Scott has some health care proposals for you. Scott wants to foist a battery of new regulations onto about 129 hospitals across Florida in 2016 as a means of improving health care. He has proposed requiring them to […]

Guest AuthorNovember 1, 2015

Ten years, eight months. That’s how long I’ve been an academic librarian. And, still, I love what I do. I wake up every morning, eager to go to work. And, contrary to the pop culture image of librarians, I don’t sit around reading all day, prim and proper, in a pencil skirt, cardigan and cat-eye […]

Phil AmmannNovember 1, 2015

A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers: Tampa Bay Times — Times recommends: Gerdes, Garrett, Wheeler-Brown for St. Petersburg City Council A new pier on the waterfront is on the way, a building boom continues downtown and universal curbside recycling is here. St. Petersburg is on a roll, but there remain challenges — […]

Guest AuthorOctober 30, 2015

Tuesday will be Florida Recycles Day at the Florida Capitol. It’s the third year the Florida Recycling Partnership and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection have teamed up to promote recycling. Displays will be on the first floor of the Capitol from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. Florida Recycling Partnership is a coalition of top […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 30, 2015

The Friday meeting of the JEA Board meeting started off with “unusual circumstances.” Because of various removals and resignations of board members, there weren’t actual officers. With that in mind, a chair pro tempore had to be elected, and into that void emerged Husein Cumber, one of the few holdovers left on a board that […]

Guest AuthorOctober 29, 2015

The first e-mail I received from Gerald Ensley was in reply to one I had sent him. I wrote something complimentary about a column he wrote, and he wrote something back in compliment about my writing (around this time, circa 2007, I would write occasional letters to the editor or submit an occasional column to […]

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Sarah Maricle Ayers: Rick Scott should stay out of hospitals’ business

Jac VerSteeg: What if Jeb Bush ran for U.S. Senate instead?

Mitch Perry Report for 11.2.15 – Tarentino to apologize as heat builds

Jac VerSteeg: What if Jeb ran for U.S. Senate instead?

Sarah Maricle Ayers: Rick Scott should stay out of hospitals’ business

Yolanda Hood: Today’s libraries (and librarians) have shaken off old stereotypes

A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers

Keyna Cory: Recycling push coming to Capitol

“Unusual circumstances” pervade JEA Board meeting

Chris Timmons: A champion of the reader takes his leave