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Diane RobertsJanuary 22, 2015

Given the constant bad tidings in the print world, a newspaper making it to the age of 100 is something to celebrate. Especially if it’s a newspaper with a pretty good history of breaking important stories, training generations of take-no-prisoners journalists and speaking truth – sometimes profanely – to power. Happy Centenary, Florida Flambeau. On […]

Diane RobertsJanuary 20, 2015

Given the constant bad tidings in the print world, a newspaper making it to the age of 100 is something to celebrate. Especially if it’s a newspaper with a pretty good history of breaking important stories, training generations of take-no-prisoners journalists and speaking truth – sometimes profanely – to power. Happy Centenary, Florida Flambeau. On […]

Diane RobertsDecember 10, 2014

And now the backlash: “Jackie,” the young woman at the center of the notorious Rolling Stone piece on rape at the University of Virginia, can’t keep her story straight. Jameis Winston’s accuser is a gold-digger aiming to shake him down in a civil suit. Lena Dunham, whose memoir details a not-really-consensual encounter with a fellow […]

Diane RobertsNovember 24, 2014

It’s happened again: a sick person goes to a college campus, pulls out a gun, and starts firing. And again, the ignorant or just plain vicious people who think the answer to gun violence is more guns squeal that if every Florida State University student, professor, groundskeeper, manager, lunchroom lady, electrician, janitor, ticket taker and […]

Diane RobertsNovember 9, 2014

Florida can congratulate itself on yet another dubious distinction: political parties, corporate patrons, gazillionaires, dark money groups, and the candidates themselves spent $345 million on the 2014 elections — the most expensive in the nation. With that kind of money, India could send four missions to Mars and have enough left over to throw a […]

Diane RobertsNovember 2, 2014

The Miami Herald recently published an op-ed claiming that when it comes to Florida’s environment, Charlie Crist was — and would be — a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad governor. Rick Scott has been a great governor, Nature-wise. And Jeb Bush, the guy who preceded Crist in the mansion? The greatest governor. A green […]

Diane RobertsOctober 27, 2014

I don’t know about you, but this latest epidemic is really freaking me out. The experts say it’s hard to catch — you can’t get it merely by living in the same state as infected people or being exposed to toxic campaign ads. But what if they’re wrong? What if stupidity is airborne? Everywhere you […]

Diane RobertsOctober 13, 2014

Hard rain falling here in the land where college football is the élan vital. First, the very large, very detailed, story in the New York Times: seems the Tallahassee police habitually cut Seminole football players some slack — a lot of slack — when they vandalize property, steal, and assault women. Fox Sports News had […]

Diane RobertsOctober 5, 2014

A College Republican Speaks: So, OK, chicks. I mean, girls, um, WOMEN. That’s it. Women. They don’t vote for us. We need to make them vote for us. So we’re targeting some campaign spots, spots focusing on the sh–, the stuff, girls like. I mean, women. Like this genius wedding dress ad for the Florida […]

Diane RobertsSeptember 24, 2014

And in Florida State University news: the Heisman-winning quarterback is a clueless brat with a million-dollar arm and a five-cent head; the feds are investigating our handling of sexual assault accusations; and the new president-elect is a Koch-head political hack known for ethics violations. Higher education in Florida, y’all. The presidential “search” was a farce. […]

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Diane Roberts: Happy Centenary, Florida Flambeau

Diane Roberts: Happy Centenary, Florida Flambeau

Diane Roberts: We’re back to blaming the victims for rape

Diane Roberts: Mixing guns and college kids is a really dangerous idea

Diane Roberts: The only mandate from this election is to protect the environment

Diane Roberts: We’re not stupid enough to paint Scott ‘green,’ are we?

Diane Roberts: Epidemic freaks me out; what if stupidity is airborne?

Diane Roberts: We rabid sports fans are loving college football to death

Diane Roberts: Like, what’s all the fuss, like, over this Scott ad about chicks?

Diane Roberts: The search for a new FSU president was a farce