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Ryan NicolMay 30, 2018

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Longtime Republican U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen may be ready to retire after her current term ends, but she’s still got plenty to say in a new interview with the Washington Blade, the oldest LGBT newspaper in the U.S. She again spoke about one of her main sticking points with the Donald Trump administration: Its efforts […]

Scott PowersMay 30, 2018

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The Democratic National Committee just weighed in on the Florida partisan fight for Puerto Rican voters, providing the state party with a $100,000 grant and arguments on why they should register as Democrats. DNC Chair Tom Perez and Florida Democratic Party Chair Terrie Rizzo joined U.S. Reps. Darren Soto and Val Demings and others in […]

Ryan NicolMay 29, 2018

Listening to historian Jon Meacham speak to the Forum Club of Palm Beaches Tuesday, you’d be forgiven for forgetting one of the biggest political rallying cries of the past few years: “This is not normal.” Instead, Meacham says, we’ve been here before. He would know. Meacham’s newest book, “The Soul of America: The Battle for […]

Peter SchorschMay 29, 2018

Summer is here — well, unofficially at least. And with it comes cookouts, summer vacations, and the final six months of the 2018 campaign. With the busiest election cycle in Florida’s modern history, the answers to these 14 questions (plus a fill-in-the-blank) could shape the future of the state. — Will Marco Rubio fully embrace his […]

Joe HendersonMay 29, 2018

Between school days and ballgames, I figure I have stood for the National Anthem or the Pledge of Allegiance at least several thousand times. High school football and basketball games. College games. Pro games. Multiple Super Bowl and World Series games. Oh say, can you see? At games where a Canadian team was involved, I […]

Drew WilsonMay 25, 2018

In a new post published on Medium, Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum called for Floridians to embrace unity as they celebrate Memorial Day this weekend. “This Memorial Day Weekend, I’ll join with millions of Americans to stand in unity honoring the brave men and women who have lost their lives defending this […]

Staff ReportsMay 25, 2018

We’ve reached the point in the primary cycle where, by now, campaign groundwork and infrastructure should be well underway. Bold is offering evidence of that proposition. Smart candidates are bringing out the big endorsements, and less seasoned candidates making career-killing gaffes. The operatives are talking. If our Jacksonville correspondent isn’t typing, odds are good he […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 24, 2018

The push to give President Donald Trump a Nobel Peace Prize for solving the seven-decade-long conflict between the Koreas is imperiled, after the President on Thursday called off the scheduled peace summit with North Korean ‘supreme leader’ Kim Jong Un. “I was very much looking forward to being there with you. Sadly, based on the tremendous anger […]

Staff ReportsMay 23, 2018

NFL owners approved a new national anthem policy Wednesday that gives individual teams the authority to set their own anthem-related rules and permits players to remain in the locker room during the playing of the anthem, according to a person familiar with the deliberations. The new policy eliminates the current requirement from the league’s game operations […]

Ryan NicolMay 23, 2018

Call it “I’m rubber, you’re glue” media criticism. Florida Atlantic University is hitting back at Palm Beach Post reporter Kenny Jacoby for what the university calls “inaccurate and misleading” coverage of the school’s own erroneous reporting of its number of female athletes. That’s after the Post caught FAU filing a false report with the Department of Education. Here’s the […]

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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen praises possible Democratic replacement

National Democrats aid Florida Democrats’ Puerto Rican voter outreach

Jon Meacham on divisiveness: We’ve been here before

25 big questions facing Florida politics heading into Summer

Joe Henderson: Is all this noise really America? Actually, it is

Andrew Gillum: Unity, the NFL and Memorial Day

Jacksonville Bold for 5.25.18 — Game theory

Bill Nelson splits with Marco Rubio, Rick Scott over NoKo summit withdrawal

NFL owners approve team-by-team national anthem policy, will allow players to remain in locker room

FAU tries to even score with Palm Beach Post after critical story