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Guest AuthorJune 29, 2015

“Are you ready to roll up your sleeves and get the work done?” Robert Avossa, the new Palm Beach County schools superintendent, asked an enthusiastic group of 250 to 300 in the Glades Central High School media center this past Thursday evening. The crowd was a cross-section of school administrators, teachers, staff, parents and local […]

Martin DyckmanJune 8, 2015

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Were any of your ancestors here to meet the Godspeed at Jamestown or the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock? No? Then you, like me, belong to an immigrant family. Your forebears may have been here longer than mine, who came in the late 1800s, but we are alike in that none of our American roots were […]

Associated PressJune 4, 2015

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will run for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, aides say, and plans to announce that June 15. Here’s where he stands on some of the issues likely to be debated in the campaign. Immigration Bush supports a system that would allow immigrants in the country illegally to stay, if they […]

Melissa RossApril 14, 2015

Former South Florida Congressman and Fox News contributor Allen West is sounding the alarm about Muslim immigrants, saying the U.S. is absorbing about 100,000 eannually and that the State Department “has a ‘secret’ list of 190 cities ‘selected’ for refugee settlement.” The claims appear on West’s website in a piece written by Editor-in-Chief Michele Hickford. Writes Hickford, “Between […]

Phil AmmannMarch 20, 2015

In November, Florida Republicans flipped six seats to gain a super-majority in the state House of Representatives, giving the chamber a veto-proof majority. The Democratic trouncing was not only across Florida, but also nationally, evidenced in Bill Day’s latest. Day provides a glimpse of who is now running the show in Tallahassee, and — to a […]

Phil AmmannMarch 20, 2015

In November, Florida Republicans flipped six seats to gain a super-majority in the state House of Representatives, giving the chamber a veto-proof majority. The Democratic trouncing was not only across Florida, but also nationally, evidenced in Bill Day’s latest. Day provides a glimpse of who is now running the show in Tallahassee, and — to a […]

Guest AuthorMarch 11, 2015

As an immigrant and first-generation college student, I have overcome many challenges throughout my life that I have had trouble sharing with others. For most of my childhood, I was ashamed of my background because I did not feel that I could connect with my peers. However, because of ABC’s new TV show “Fresh Off […]

Bob SparksMarch 3, 2015

Florida’s most conservative Republican governor in history was about to speak before last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, MD. Despite a record few Republicans in any state could match, his appearance before a room full of conservatives was considered a road game. Between 2007 and 2015, he fell from grace among […]

Phil AmmannFebruary 17, 2015

While everyone is busy speculating about whether Jeb Bush will survive his immigration and Common Core positions in the modern Republican Party, new polling shows the one stance that could prove a deal breaker with GOP voters: his opposition to same-sex marriage. A new batch of 2016 primary polls from NBC News and Marist College […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 14, 2015

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a Homeland Security funding bill that would cancel President Barack Obama’s deferred-action executive order allowing some four million undocumented immigrants to stay in the country without fear of deportation. “Congress made a promise to the American people in December to defund the president’s executive order on amnesty. Today […]

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Catherine Martinez: New school superintendent promises evaluation, change

Martin Dyckman: Why is Jeb Bush the only GOP contender who makes sense on immigration?

Where they stand: Jeb Bush on key topics of 2016 campaign

Allen West: “Secret” list of cities for Muslim immigrants

Bill Day's latest: The partisan divide and Florida's super-majority

Bill Day’s latest: The partisan divide and Florida’s super-majority

Vu Tran: As an immigrant, I was wrong to view my difference as a drawback

Bob Sparks: Jeb Bush earns a respectable passing grade at CPAC

Surprising GOP voter turn-off: opposition to gay marriage

David Jolly defends House vote to defund Obama immigration order