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Jac VerSteegJanuary 12, 2016

FAU professor James Tracy is creating an opening for Florida politicians who don’t like tenure and don’t like faculty unions. Because of Tracy’s case, tenure opponents could go on the attack and look good doing it. Tracy is the Florida Atlantic University communications professor who claims the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre is a […]

Martin DyckmanDecember 23, 2015

Academe would be a dreary place without its occasional kooky professor, but James Tracy of Florida Atlantic University is simply too much. Hired to teach about conspiracy theories, he digressed into peddling his own, beginning with the claim that the Newtown, Connecticut, massacre three years ago was a hoax by the media and by the […]

Jac VerSteegDecember 21, 2015

This being the Christmas season, we all are entitled to believe in those things we want to believe in. This time of year – if only for a short time – I choose to believe in Santa. I believe, for example, that the Reason for the Season will lead the Florida Legislature to ask itself […]

Jac VerSteegDecember 20, 2015

This being the Christmas season, we all are entitled to believe in those things we want to believe in. This time of year – if only for a short time – I choose to believe in Santa. I believe, for example, that the Reason for the Season will lead the Florida Legislature to ask itself […]

Guest AuthorNovember 3, 2015

Backers and opponents of letting people bring guns onto Florida’s college campuses can’t logically support their arguments until there’s more slaughter to analyze. It appears that a bill that would allow students with a concealed-carry permit to bring their guns onto the state’s public college campuses will become law next year. A similar bill died […]

Guest AuthorNovember 2, 2015

Backers and opponents of letting people bring guns onto Florida’s college campuses can’t logically support their arguments until there’s more slaughter to analyze. It appears that a bill that would allow students with a concealed-carry permit to bring their guns onto the state’s public college campuses will become law next year. A similar bill died […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 23, 2015

For the first time in this election cycle, Marco Rubio now leads Jeb Bush in a Florida presidential poll. However, both still trail Donald Trump in a new survey from Florida Atlantic University (initially published by Anthony Mann in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel) released on Wednesday. The New York City real estate magnate maintains a double-digit lead […]

Mitch PerryMarch 26, 2015

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With a Republican governor and overwhelmingly GOP-led Legislature, Florida is being well served by its legislators in Tallahassee, right? Not exactly. A new Public Policy Polling survey released Thursday shows that 58 percent of Florida voters want Medicaid expansion. Independents support it by 57 percent, while there is a 12-point difference among Republicans (33/45). Despite […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 29, 2014

I know what it’s like to oppose John Thrasher. I was a very junior senator facing one of Florida’s most respected, influential leaders who believed, on his side, just as strongly as I did on mine. I felt the force of his muscular personality, his immense grasp of the issues and his access to great resources […]

Bob SparksSeptember 16, 2014

The audacity of Republican politicians is limitless. Someone wants to be president of a prestigious Florida university and this person has no experience in academia? Faculty is apoplectic. Students want to be heard. If this man becomes president, the school will lose prestige, grants, and perhaps a few members of the hyper-agitated faculty. But this […]

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Crowds gather to see Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. (Gabrielle Russon)

Jac VerSteeg: FAU professor James Tracy's case helps anti-tenure forces

Martin Dyckman: The kooky, the clueless, and the crooked

Jac VerSteeg: Santa, Sandy Hook and Florida Atlantic University

Jac VerSteeg: Santa, Sandy Hook and Florida Atlantic University

Tom O’Hara: Allowing guns on campus is dumb, but it won’t change college life much

Tom O’Hara: Allowing guns on campus is dumb, but it won’t change college life much

New poll shows Marco Rubio leading Jeb Bush for 1st time in Florida

New survey: Most Floridians like Medicaid expansion, medical marijuana, same-sex marriage

Don Gaetz: Thrasher has the skills, smarts and charm to be a great FSU president

Bob Sparks: Thrasher’s critics should reveal their choice for FSU presidency