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Guest AuthorAugust 19, 2015

About a year ago a dear friend gave me a copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King. The 2012 book earned the 2013 Pulitzer for general nonfiction and the Pulitzer Committee described the book as a “richly […]

Guest AuthorAugust 19, 2015

I live with three boys, counting Marc, and for the past few years, when our oppressive Florida heat downshifts into simply sweltering, they begin The Ritual. This annual event involves fantasy football spreadsheets, sports radio and worrying about things called “stats.” It involves sitting on the couch with sperm-killing laptops. It involves shouting about hamstrings […]

Guest AuthorAugust 18, 2015

By now the videos of Planned Parenthood executives casually discussing abortion outcomes over lunch have been broadly distributed and widely viewed. They have occasioned an appropriate and long overdue conversation on the nature of women’s health care, its availability and adequacy. Merely marketing oneself as a source of women’s health care is insufficient. Health care, […]

Shannon NickinsonAugust 18, 2015

Pensacola has officially embarked on a new chapter in the 130-year history of a community institution of health and wellness. The new downtown branch of the Northwest Florida YMCA will be — if all of the fundraising goals are met — a $15 million, 52,000-square-foot facility with an aquatic center, a gymnasium, a wellness center, […]

Associated PressAugust 18, 2015

Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush said Tuesday that the government should have broad surveillance powers of Americans and private technology firms should cooperate better with intelligence agencies to help combat “evildoers.” At a national security forum in the early-voting state of South Carolina, Bush put himself at odds with Republican congressional leaders who earlier this […]

Diane RobertsAugust 17, 2015

OCCUPIED TALLAHASSEE – They stamp their feet, they scream till they’re sick, and hold their breath till they’re blue. They act like 5-year-olds caught with their grotty little paws in the cookie jar, their faces covered in crumbs, as they swear they didn’t do anything wrong. The Special – or Remedial – Session. While all […]

Guest AuthorAugust 17, 2015

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter formally established the U.S. Department of Energy, with (among other things) the goal of making America energy independent. The idea was that there’s an undeniable connection between our energy security and our national security. We’ve pursued that laudable goal in a variety of ways: the development of traditional fossil fuels, […]

Guest AuthorAugust 17, 2015

With the complexities involved over the redistricting cases winding their way through Florida courts, I shouldn’t be surprised how easily the Democrats are getting away with their misinformation campaign, and I really shouldn’t be surprised how willing the media is to repeat the Democrat talking points. Let’s review, first, what the constitutional amendments governed. The […]

Peter SchorschAugust 17, 2015

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Phil AmmannAugust 17, 2015

As Jeb Bush fights off accusations of weakness over Common Core, his brother’s legacy and other issues, Bill Day shows the Republican presidential candidate planning a serious left hook. The heavily funded super PAC supporting the former Florida governor is ready to spend at least $10 million on television time in some of the early […]

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Terri Susan Fine: I question whether we have learned 'citizenship' in our generation

Catherine Durkin Robinson: For those of us who don’t get football, we can still see its value with the men in our lives

Jeff Atwater: Planned Parenthood and the consequences of speech

Shannon Nickinson: Pensacola takes step to break unhealthy tradition

Jeb Bush: NSA needs broader powers to combat “evildoers”

Diane Roberts: Democracy in Florida remains lost in spite of new maps

Sal Nuzzo: Energy Security, Economic Security, National Security

Must-read op-ed from Stafford Jones: Who is really doing the gerrymandering?

74th Retro Car Parade Held in New York

Bill Day’s latest: Jeb Bush’s big Super PAC left hook