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Associated PressOctober 6, 2016

Each night, Hillary Clinton‘s data experts head to a conference room on the 11th floor of her Brooklyn headquarters, to start counting votes. The sessions in the “early voter boiler room,” as it’s been dubbed by campaign aides, stretch into the early hours of the morning. The team pores over turnout patterns in states where […]

Lloyd DunkelbergerJuly 19, 2016

A First Amendment fight has broken out on the sugar-white sands of Santa Rosa Beach in Walton County. A retired couple, who own a 2,296-square-foot beachfront home, has filed a federal lawsuit, asserting a new Walton County ordinance violates the U.S. Constitution because it prohibits the couple from posting no-trespassing signs on their privately owned […]

Florence SnyderJune 27, 2016

The Department of Children and Families (DCF) is not the worst offender in Florida’s never-ending War on Open Government. It just gets caught in the act more often than fellow offenders at the state, county and municipal levels. That’s because DCF is one of the few agencies left which ever has to contend with watchdog journalism. DCF chieftains, […]

Keith MorelliJune 15, 2016

With the outpouring of support in Orlando, the nation and the world over the massacre of 49 innocent victims inside a nightclub over the weekend, an undercurrent of hatred and ignorance bubbled to the surface across the social media spectrum. The vitriol stretched the First Amendment right of everyone in this country to freedom of […]

Associated PressMarch 3, 2016

A U.S. farmworkers coalition is suing Palm Beach, alleging the wealthy town’s ordinances effectively bar the group from its constitutional right to hold a protest near the home of a billionaire fast-food executive. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, representing about 40,000 field workers, wants a federal judge to allow a planned demonstration March 12 near […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 18, 2016

Let’s face it. Most people ought not be wearing tattoos. No one over 40 ought sport one at all because by 45, the eagle spreads to a vulture and the cute kitties to a saggy, baggy elephant. Back when I was young, stupid and thought I could make fun of being old, I shared a […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 17, 2016

Let’s face it. Most people ought not be wearing tattoos. No one over 40 ought sport one at all because by 45, the eagle spreads to a vulture and the cute kitties to a saggy, baggy elephant. Back when I was young, stupid and thought I could make fun of being old, I shared a […]

Jac VerSteegDecember 7, 2015

There has been a lot of talk about mass shootings and the Second Amendment. Let’s talk a little bit about mass shootings and the First Amendment. We are looking for ways to keep guns out of the hands of violently mentally ill people. Perhaps we also should be looking for ways to keep religion out […]

Jac VerSteegDecember 6, 2015

There has been a lot of talk about mass shootings and the Second Amendment. Let’s talk a little bit about mass shootings and the First Amendment. We are looking for ways to keep guns out of the hands of violently mentally ill people. Perhaps we also should be looking for ways to keep religion out […]

Associated PressDecember 4, 2015

A judge has ordered a Florida newspaper to remove transcripts of telephone conversations from a story on its website about a jailhouse “snitch” who has testified in numerous cases. The order earlier this week from Palm Beach Circuit Judge Jack Schramm Cox says The Palm Beach Post’s publication of the transcripts violates Frederick Cobia‘s right to privacy. The […]

Tag: First Amendment

For Hillary Clinton, election likely to be won or lost in October

Santa Rosa Beach no trespassing sign sparks Walton County free speech battle

Florence Snyder: At Florida Department of Children & Families, the sun don’t shine

As support mounts for Orlando victims, undercurrent of hate surfaces on social media

Rotten tomatoes? Farmworkers sue Palm Beach over protest ban

Linda Cunningham: Really? You quoted Jimmy Buffett on tattoos?

Linda Cunningham: Really? You quoted Jimmy Buffett on tattoos?

Jac VerSteeg: When God tells you it’s OK to kill

Jac VerSteeg: When God tells you it’s OK to kill

Judge orders Palm Beach Post to remove “snitch” transcripts