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Guest AuthorNovember 18, 2014

First impressions matter. It’s one of the truisms we must live with. Unfortunately, that’s a fact seemingly lost on new Florida State University President John Thrasher. Exhibit 1 is the former legislator’s tone-deaf response to last week’s New York Times article highlighting another instance in which an FSU football player not named Winston might have […]

Guest AuthorNovember 10, 2014

Rachel Harris stood in front of panel 17 E, camera in hand. She was erect, almost at attention, her posture emanating a certain reverence for the moment, for the place. She stared at the names on the traveling Vietnam War memorial tribute with its replica black granite look and the names etched in white, names […]

Guest AuthorNovember 9, 2014

I live in Tallahassee — a sea of blue surrounded by red. Gwen Graham beat Republican Steve Southerland to become the first woman elected to the Second Congressional District seat. On a bleak night for Democrats nationwide, Graham’s less-than-3,000-vote margin of victory felt like a landslide. She can thank the voters of Leon County, where […]

Guest AuthorOctober 28, 2014

He wanted it to be a private pilgrimage. It turned into a public tribute. Maybe it will become a movement. L. Lamar Wilson ran 15 miles on Sunday afternoon, retracing the route taken by the white men who abducted and lynched Claude Neal 80 years ago in Marianna, Fla. Then about 40 people joined him […]

Guest AuthorOctober 19, 2014

If you live in Florida’s capital city, one routine complaint is the airport: Flights are too expensive; it’s just hard getting anywhere from here. So city officials are trying to change the narrative, if not the flight path of Tallahassee Regional Airport. They want to join the ranks of Melbourne International and Sarasota-Bradenton International. Before […]

Guest AuthorOctober 5, 2014

The state’s Department of Children and Families Northeast Region, which was responsible for the safety of the six children massacred by their grandfather in the rural town of Bell, drastically needs new leadership. That’s obvious reading recent reports in the Miami Herald about the 18 complaints investigators received about Don Spirit, his troubled daughter and […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 21, 2014

A misogynistic, vile, expletive punctuated public outburst on Florida State University campus would have been unacceptable for any college student. For the reigning Heisman Trophy winner and FSU starting quarterback Jameis Winston, the outburst was way out of bounds. Just as FSU has ramped up its kNOw MORE anti-sexual violence campaign, Winston stands on a […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 8, 2014

Judging by the ugly tone of the Rick Scott vs. Charlie Crist political campaign ads, this is shaping up to be the Scott Rothstein election. For those who may be living in a cave without wi-fi, Rothstein is the former South Florida attorney who was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for perpetrating a […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 2, 2014

Seeing a number of young black men in my English composition class this week, I was reminded that when Michael Brown died so did his dream of attending Vatterott College. His seat in the Class of 2018 will forever remain vacant. Since the recent high school graduate was shot by a Ferguson, Mo. police officer, […]

Guest AuthorAugust 28, 2014

What did Jennifer Carroll think would happen after millionaire candidate Rick Scott plucked her out of obscurity to run for lieutenant governor? Readers will hope to get some of those answers to that four-year-old question from Carroll, who is back on the scene doing interviews in anticipation of the publication of her autobiography, When You […]

Tag: Andrew Skerritt

Andrew Skerritt: FSU’s president should be tougher on football player misconduct

Andrew Skerritt: Tallahassee honors veterans at ‘traveling Vietnam War Memorial’

Andrew Skerritt: Gwen Graham victory in North Florida is reason for hope

Andrew Skerritt: Poet stages tribute to black man lynched 80 years ago

Andrew Skerritt: Trying to take off, Tallahassee Airport wants to go international

Andrew Skerritt: Mass murder exposes dysfunction in DCF regional office

Andrew Skerritt: FSU survives Clemson; can its reputation survive ‘Jameis being Jameis’?

Andrew Skerritt: Con man will be factor in the Scott-Crist gubernatorial race

Andrew Skerritt: Who takes Michael Brown’s vacant seat in college?

Andrew Skerritt: What did Jennifer Carroll expect after Scott chose her as running mate?