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Florence SnyderMarch 31, 2015

A half century after an unsolved murder, who did the crime is less important that what the crime did to those left behind. The October 22, 1966 murders of Robert and Helen Sims and their 12 year old daughter Joy changed Tallahassee, overnight, from a place where everyone trusted everyone to a place where the […]

Florence SnyderMarch 31, 2015

A half century after an unsolved murder, who did the crime is less important that what the crime did to those left behind. The October 22, 1966 murders of Robert and Helen Sims and their 12 year old daughter Joy changed Tallahassee, overnight, from a place where everyone trusted everyone to a place where the […]

Florence SnyderMarch 23, 2015

State Rep. Halsey Beshears, R-Not From Panacea, supports small government, except when he doesn’t. Beshears was elected to the House in 2012 from Monticello, in Jefferson County. He’s all in for making a city out of Panacea, located in Wakulla County, inside his sprawling district, but an hour’s drive and a world away from where […]

Florence SnyderMarch 12, 2015

Tallahassee’s Red Hills Horse Trials isn’t the first thing that comes to mind for working-class people looking to spend a spring afternoon outdoors with the kids. It’s easy to feel intimidated by a United States Equestrian Association event that attracts an international crowd of diehard members of the horsey set. But the “suggested donation” of $15 is a […]

Florence SnyderMarch 5, 2015

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Former governor and probable presidential hopeful Jeb Bush calls them “the 20 people who talk to each other.” You know, the folks who make their living in and around The Permanent Campaign. There’s an Internet site that counts down the days, hours, minutes and seconds from one election to the next. The political press refers […]

Florence SnyderMarch 4, 2015

If you don’t live in Miami Gardens, you probably think its police department is no concern of yours. Ira Glass thinks otherwise. The host of This American Life used his highly respected program to bring the Miami Herald’s reporting on the out-of-control police department to his international audience of public radio listeners. The tale was first told […]

Florence SnyderMarch 1, 2015

It was a full house at the Feb. 20 funeral mass for Gerry Jaski, 79, who passed away peacefully at his home in Tallahassee with his wife, Mary Lou Rajchel, and his rescue dog Bones by his side. Many of the mourners at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church knew Jaski from his years as general counsel […]

Florence SnyderFebruary 25, 2015

Media bashers, media ethicists and the Greek chorus at Comedy Central will be gorging for a long time on the disgraced remains of Brian Williams. But the credibility crisis now engulfing NBC News is not Williams’ fault. It is never the reporter’s fault. An “anchor and managing editor” is neither God nor a kid with […]

Florence SnyderFebruary 23, 2015

“Saturday Night Live” patriarch Lorne Michaels produced an incredibly entertaining one-hour tribute to himself on the occasion of the show’s 40th anniversary. Sad to say it dragged on two and a half hours longer than it should have, because who’s going to say “no” to the founder of one of the entertainment industry’s most enduring […]

Florence SnyderFebruary 18, 2015

Like all addicts, David Carr had a drug of choice. His was journalism. He craved the constant rush that the news business provides. The endorphins unleashed in the newsrooms where he worked in Minnesota and Washington and New York made for a better high than “the frantic kind of boring” that Carr described in his memoir about […]

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Florence Snyder: The murders that changed Tallahassee forever

Florence Snyder: The murders that changed Tallahassee forever

Florence Snyder: Republicans seeking a Panacea suddenly like taxes

Florence Snyder: At Red Hills Horse Trials, cafeteria ladies join ladies who lunch

Florence Snyder: Political-journalism boomlet is depressing for most of us

Florence Snyder: Miami Gardens a police reign of terror in miniature

Florence Snyder: Gerry Jaski was a lawyer's lawyer and FSU institution

Florence Snyder: Blame NBC editors for Brian Williams' lies

Florence Snyder: Follow SNL's rules of comedy, and comedy rules

Florence Snyder: Why journalism should be addicted to David Carr