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Guest AuthorJune 23, 2016

Here are the 15 quick notes I put out Thursday about the new census data. More coming on all this soon: 2015 census estimates are out today. Some really interesting things in Florida. First, population up almost 1.5 million to just over 20.7 million. Florida is growing at a slightly slower rate than 2000-10, but […]

Rosanne DunkelbergerJune 9, 2016

Tuesday’s impromptu election-night watch party was probably the largest concentration of post-menopausal women in Tallahassee history. An observation I shared with many of the women there. No one was insulted. We laughed. No, there wasn’t a whole lot of estrogen in the room, but there was a giddiness as the crowd of about 75 (including […]

Tom JacksonJune 8, 2016

Surveying the conundrum confronting the Republican Party in the age of Donald Trump, an antique TV ad touting Fram oil filters comes to mind. If you bought the Beatles’ White Album the day it was released and remember Muhammad Ali in his prime, you know the spot: A mechanic in the midst of an overhaul […]

Associated PressJune 1, 2016

Donald Trump‘s heated war with the media reached new heights as he turned the brag-worthy feat of raising $5.6 million for veterans’ charities into a sparring match with reporters pressing him on the issue. “The press should be ashamed of themselves,” a defensive Trump railed during a Tuesday news conference at Trump Tower, called to […]

Associated PressMay 26, 2016

Donald Trump reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president Thursday, completing an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and set the stage for a bitter fall campaign. Trump was put over the top in the Associated Press delegate count by a small number of the party’s unbound […]

Guest AuthorMay 26, 2016

Nobody would claim that elected officials are an inherently truthful breed. Even the honest ones, of whom there are many, are required to stretch the truth, engage in hyperbole, bite their tongues, avert their eyes, and sometimes even spout little white lies in order to get elected or re-elected. This is due in no small […]

Diane RobertsMay 25, 2016

The Bern? Duly felt. Duly appreciated. Sen. Sanders has put inequality where it belongs, in the center of the American conversation. He has energized hundreds of thousands of young people who’ve never felt a part of the political process and gotten America to revisit such “socialist” ideals as universal health care, universal education, and healthy […]

Tom JacksonMay 24, 2016

The atmosphere crackled like the approach of a late-afternoon thunderstorm with the release over the weekend of polls showing the current state of the presidential race. Which is appropriate, because so far there has been lots of menacing rumbling, if not a great deal of light. And, like any storm on the horizon, this one […]

Darryl PaulsonMay 23, 2016

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The opposition to Donald Trump has been constant from the start of the 2016 presidential campaign. However, it has been unfocused and essentially leaderless. Many Trump opponents believed he would not enter the race. When he entered, they believed he had no chance of winning. Now that Trump has all but won the nomination, they […]

Joe HendersonMay 22, 2016

Pundits and political pros have been talking about the Great Divide among Americans, and we all know it is there. It always has been. People in a country this large and diverse are going to have different ways of looking at things, but we usually come together at some point and work out the problems. […]

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Debate party at Sports Grill Kendall. Image via AP.

Steve Schale’s 15 quick tidbits on the new 2015 census estimates

Scenes from a Hillary Clinton watch party

Tom Jackson: With Donald Trump, GOP faces expensive overhaul

Testy Donald Trump takes his war with the press to a new level

Donald Trump reaches the magic number to clinch nomination

Michael Richardson: When truth is the loser

Diane Roberts: Bernie Sanders, stop trashing Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party

Tom Jackson: GOP won’t like what follows the summer of Donald Trump

Darryl Paulson: It’s now or never for #NeverTrump

Joe Henderson: Can America bridge the Great Divide?