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Guest AuthorDecember 8, 2015

Getting older is super fun. It means a certain level of respect is thrown our way, not because we survived the Great Depression, we’re not that old, but because we survived big hair, disco, and AIDS. Aging means we are now in charge. Aging also means tests and more tests to probe and prod our […]

Phil AmmannNovember 30, 2015

Uber kicks off the holiday season Tuesday with an ambitious goal: an AIDS-Free Generation. In celebration of the third annual World AIDS Day – Dec. 1, also known as “Giving Tuesday” – the San Francisco-based on-demand service is partnering with AIDS charity (RED) in its mission to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV globally by 2020. […]

Guest AuthorMarch 31, 2015

Most of us have the capacity to show concern for others, but way too often it’s only when those “others” are a lot like us. It should surprise no one that a mouthy, opinionated woman like me is an avowed feminist. Oh and the LGBT movement is stocked full of gay people. Plus the Republican […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 27, 2015

The Tampa Bay Times alienated some of it readership and certainly surprised many others last fall when it editorialized against Amendment Two. That was the medical marijuana initiative being proposed in Florida some 18 years after California became the first state in the nation to legalize the herb for medicinal purposes. The editorial called the substance of the […]

Shannon NickinsonNovember 10, 2014

The voters have spoken. And mostly they spoke for the incumbent. The results of the Nov. 4 general election brought one new County Commissioner to Escambia County, though all of the political blood sport in that race was contained to the primary election. Sitting Commissioner Gene Valentino couldn’t escape the primary, where Doug Underhill defeated […]

Marc YachtOctober 6, 2014

The recent U.S. Ebola cases alarm some Americans, but their concerns are unwarranted. Such dangerous infectious diseases can be controlled as long as our federal and local public health agencies have adequate resources. Americans should remember SARS, West Nile Virus and Swine Flu. All were dangerous outbreaks. But for the most part, U.S. public health […]

Marc YachtJuly 23, 2014

Government is about essential services; business is about profit. Business types have no “business” running government. That is the purview of elected officials. Government’s focus should be on solving problems, not on available dollars. The challenge is to find the resources, not cut the programs. It’s a different way of thinking and the best example […]

Tag: AIDS

Catherine Durkin Robinson: Considering mortality with Cypress Hill

Uber, (RED) join forces Tuesday to raise money and awareness for World AIDS Day

Catherine Durkin Robinson: Empathy for others who really are 'others'

Mitch Perry Report for 1.27.15 — The politics of pot returns to Florida

Shannon Nickinson: Gen-X has the power; it’s time to show leadership

Marc Yacht: U.S. safe from Ebola if public health workers have proper resources

Marc Yacht: Government should not be run like a business