Jesse SchecknerFebruary 26, 2024
5min0
The building is on the National Register of Historic Places and listed as a National Historic Landmark.
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Jesse SchecknerFebruary 26, 2024
Anne GeggisNovember 17, 2021
3min1062
The Boca Raton attorney, first elected to the Boca Raton City Council, has raised the most of any Palm Beach County candidate.
Guest AuthorApril 12, 2020
9min268
Four nonfiction history books on how Florida history shaped the United States and the world as we know it.
Ryan NicolDecember 2, 2019
4min408
LeMieux gave his remarks at the conference's Monday afternoon welcome lunch.
Jim RosicaAugust 17, 2018
4min531
Rachel Nordby, who’s been a deputy solicitor general for Attorney General Pam Bondi, is heading to the Shutts & Bowen law firm as a partner in the Tallahassee office, the firm announced Friday. Nordby, who starts Sept. 10, will be vice chair of the firm’s Appellate Practice Group. Her hire follows another recent high-profile addition […]
Brendan FarringtonJune 22, 2016
4min214
Either the African-American woman who founded what’s now Bethune-Cookman University, the founder of Publix supermarkets or the woman credited with saving the Everglades will replace a Confederate general’s statue that represents Florida in the U.S. Capitol. The three Floridians were selected Wednesday by a committee that reviewed 130 recommendations made by the public. The Legislature […]
Guest AuthorMarch 31, 2016
6min217
Despite persistent local legends and the occasional Sarah Palin-esque tweaking of the tourists, you cannot see the night lights of Havana from Key West. Not even on a clear evening. Not even if you squint. But Havana, a mere 90 miles from Key West, is closer to Duval Street than is Miami. In the days […]
Guest AuthorMarch 30, 20166min185
Despite persistent local legends and the occasional Sarah Palin-esque tweaking of the tourists, you cannot see the night lights of Havana from Key West. Not even on a clear evening. Not even if you squint. But Havana, a mere 90 miles from Key West, is closer to Duval Street than is Miami. In the days […]
William MarchFebruary 21, 2016
6min239
A proposal to remove a statue of a Confederate leader at the National Statuary Hall is generating speculation among Florida legislators about whose image should replace it. Legislation to replace the statue of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith doesn’t propose a successor. Smith’s place in history is due to his being the last officer to surrender […]
Guest AuthorSeptember 8, 2015
5min209
By Marco Rubio Nearly 450 years ago, Spanish settlers fulfilled their dreams of building a new world by founding the city of St. Augustine. This city’s past can teach us a great deal about who we are today, both as Floridians and as Americans. But just as the theme of this celebration calls us to […]