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Daniel TilsonFebruary 3, 2014

I knew something was up with worrisome fans of Charlie Crist when my recently visiting mother-in-law, a solid Democrat, expressed both fondness and concern for Florida’s former governor. She put it plain and simple, in the same nutshell as plenty of others like her at Sun City and other such vote-rich condo colonies have been […]

Daniel TilsonJanuary 29, 2014

Millions of middle-class Floridians will have the opportunity this year to prove an important point to comfortably incumbent state legislators. The point? When members of the Florida Senate and House of Representatives distort or hide the truth about their achievements, motives, methods and goals, sufficient numbers of voters will be savvy enough to catch on […]

Daniel TilsonJanuary 28, 2014

I’m not one to cry easily, but I choked up as the sad news of Pete Seeger’s death on Monday mixed with personal, inspirational memories of his remarkable life. Remarkable too, that I’m only one of countless thousands whose lives have been deeply touched and enhanced by his work. For me, it started young. Toddler […]

Daniel TilsonJanuary 21, 2014

Dr. Juan Carlos Rodriguez is a veteran Miami internist, a pulmonary specialist, and a devoted family man with 3-year-old twins, a boy and a girl. But as much as he wants to, he cannot get married. Although he has been in a committed, loving relationship with the same person for almost 18 years, the state […]

Daniel TilsonJanuary 19, 2014

With Florida public policy and lawmaking controlled by Republicans since 1996 and by Gov. Rick Scott’s posse of hardcore GOP conservatives since 2011, Martin Luther King Day 2014 seems high time to ask: What MLK would make of the state of the Sunshine State these days? It’s safe to say he wouldn’t see eye to […]

Daniel TilsonJanuary 15, 2014

First in a series. Fallacies are falling like raindrops in storm season, facts are being discarded like yesterday’s trash and fairness is a commodity fewer and fewer voters seem to value very much anymore. “Game On!” It’s time for Florida’s 2014 midterm elections!! Don’t all stand and cheer at once. Stand and cheer is what […]

Daniel TilsonJanuary 8, 2014

Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of The United States, must be spinning in his grave and cursing up a storm this week. You see, to mark the 50th anniversary of LBJ’s landmark ‘War On Poverty’, congressional conservatives like Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio are taking turns trying to discredit it. First came […]

Daniel TilsonDecember 30, 2013

Given the tragicomedy characterizing Florida political theater in recent years, it feels right reaching for a Shakespeare quote when looking back at 2013 and ahead to 2014: “What’s past is prologue.” The state’s prevailing powers-that-be (richest individual and corporate residents acting through “supportive” elected officials) continued widening the income and economic opportunity gap between them […]

Daniel TilsonDecember 26, 2013

How’d you like your weekly salary to be 20 percent higher than it is now? How about knowing for sure that if you do your job well, you’re going to get a raise every year or two and have a shot at keeping up with cost of living increases? What about knowing you can’t get […]

Daniel TilsonDecember 23, 2013

Unless you’re one of the infamously rich and reactionary Koch Brothers or top dog of some other profits-over-people multinational corporate empire, or a hardcore right-wing politician, or a conservative media gun-for-hire, or just an Old School Scrooge… Chances are that at this time of year you’re feeling genuine sympathy for poor men and women who […]

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Daniel Tilson: Crist book tour rewrites Gov. Scott’s ‘earned media’ playbook

Daniel Tilson: Florida Republicans reveal 2014 legislative agenda

Daniel Tilson: The power of Pete Seeger

Daniel Tilson: Marriage equality lawsuit could overturn Florida same-sex marriage ban

Daniel Tilson: What would MLK make of Florida in 2014?

Daniel Tilson: Election 2014 Florida: Fallacies, facts and fairness

Daniel Tilson: The GOP’s impoverished anti-poverty platform

Daniel Tilson: Decoding Florida GOP’s 2013 words and deeds

Daniel Tilson: Most Florida workers wronged by “Right To Work” law

Daniel Tilson: Dear right-wingers: Ya gotta have heart all year long!