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Phil AmmannJanuary 16, 2015

Filling John Thrasher’s large and impressive shoes will be a challenge, one with an ensuing clash between two political veterans: state Reps. Ronald “Doc” Renuart and Travis Hutson. Regardless, there will be only one winner. The best person for that, in the opinion of the Florida Times-Union editorial board, is Renuart. Thrasher left the Florida […]

Julie DelegalSeptember 3, 2014

Synecdoche means using one part of something to speak for the whole. When it comes to school-privatization rhetoric, voucher proponents have mastered the art of synecdoche. They find an individual — a successful, accomplished voucher student — and tell a glowing story that is meant to represent all private school voucher students, indeed, the entire […]

Julie DelegalFebruary 6, 2014

Duval County School Board member Jason Fischer, a rising young conservative in North Florida, wrote an admirable op-ed on transparency and accountability for our public schools. Most citizens would agree that while the school-grading system needs major tweaking, accountability is a good thing. Fischer advocates for full disclosure of data that relates not only to […]

Julie DelegalJanuary 5, 2014

It’s a principle of our representative democracy that we, the people, don’t weigh in on every bit of minutia entailed in making laws and policy. The oft-quoted maxim, usually attributed to Prussian statesman Otto Von Bismark, posits that lawmaking, like sausage-making, is a process better left unviewed. But at what points in the “sausage-making” should […]

Peter SchorschJanuary 2, 2014

If you go by the headlines in some Florida newspapers, you’d think that there’s a wave of hate crimes being committed across the state. “Hate crimes up 22 percent across Florida,” reads the headline from the Florida Times-Union. “Hate crimes rise in Florida,” blares the Orlando Sentinel. Indeed reported hate crimes increased 22.3 percent in 2012 over the prior year, […]

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Florida Times-Union calls Doc Renuart best choice to succeed John Thrasher

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Julie Delegal: Private-voucher schools must show how they spend tax dollars

Julie Delegal: Voters benefit when the ‘sausage’ is made in public

Peter Schorsch: Newspapers overplay the increase in Florida hate crimes