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Dominic CalabroMay 21, 2014

My college-age children often ask me, “How did you make it through school without the Internet?” Reflecting back to simpler times before laptops, smartphones and “the cloud” reminds me just how integral these technologies are to modern society. None of these technologies could operate without a key service we all rely on — from students […]

Guest AuthorMay 20, 2014

Who does Jeb Bush think he’s “bushitting”? The extremist former governor of Florida and (for the moment leading) GOP presidential candidate is now parading as the self-proclaimed voice of moderation — and the sycophantish press is letting him get away with it. Floridians know the real Jeb. This entry below from my just-published Dictionary of […]

Guest AuthorMay 20, 2014

He was a coffee-drinking, chain-smoking Southern Baptist Democrat — early 1970s model — and he owned the weekly newspaper in southwest Virginia. He called me “little girl” in the same sentence that he named me editor. When his backroom banking buddies wouldn’t give me a credit card (you’re married, they said; you can use your […]

Marc YachtMay 20, 2014

After 753 failed votes to defund Obamacare, weary Republicans have rolled out their long-awaited health plan. Entitled “Perfect Health for All Americans Act,” the House Speaker raised the one-page document above his head to cheering supporters. The logo on the plan showed an eagle perched on a red cross between two American flags. “In God […]

Guest AuthorMay 20, 2014

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” — Albert Schweitzer Friendship has changed in our social-media age. We used to maintain long-distance friendships with letters […]

Peter SchorschMay 20, 2014

A half-year ago we politely asked the question that was on the lips of every casual observer of government in Central Florida: exactly what in the hell is going on at the OOCEA, an organization with a mission so boring that the width of bike paths should normally define the outer limits of spirited debate. […]

Bob SparksMay 19, 2014

“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.” — Anchorman Howard Beale from the movie “Network” Recently we learned of the scandal over health care involving the Veterans Administration. The story started in Phoenix, but is now spreading to other VA facilities. Last week, Florida joined the story when three […]

Guest AuthorMay 19, 2014

Many of the goods we use every day — from car parts to computers, to the clothes we wear and the meals we eat — must first pass through one or more of the nation’s seaports. Closer to home, every resident and visitor in West and Central Florida will use some product that has been […]

Guest AuthorMay 19, 2014

In what has to be a classic “duh” moment, she invited me to tag along to a Key West bar for some drinking liberally. Made sense, right? Key West? Bar? Drinking with abandon? From Hemingway to the morning’s cruise ship passenger, Key West lures them with the promise of a permanent alcohol fugue. I went. […]

Martin DyckmanMay 18, 2014

Suppose that Gov. Rick Scott cancelled an election and announced that he, not the voters, would select their new state senator or representative. That hasn’t happened–yet. But something of the same nature is happening with a circuit judgeship in Jacksonville. It doesn’t pass the smell test either. The six-year term of Donald Moran, presently the […]

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Dominic Calabro: Letting the FCC regulate the Internet is a bad idea

Stephen Goldstein: Jeb Bush: Doomed to act out a Greek tragedy

Linda Cunningham: We should not be discussing editor’s tenure in gender terms

Marc Yacht: Republican one-page plan solves the health-care conundrum!!

Steve Kurlander: Artie Lee: A social-media friend that I regret I never met

Peter Schorsch: What’s happening at the Orlando Expressway Authority?

Bob Sparks: Veterans deserve answers about VA health-care fiasco

A. Paul Anderson: Governments must build infrastructure so ports can prosper

Linda Cunningham: ‘Drinking Liberally’ lets progressives share sober ideas

Martin Dyckman: Florida deserves an independent, professional elections office