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Melissa RossApril 22, 2016

Jacksonville and Key West are two sites being considered by the Navy as possible locations for its new squadron of unmanned aerial surveillance drones. The three sites the Navy is considering are Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Naval Air Station Key West in the Florida Keys and the NASA Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. […]

Guest AuthorApril 18, 2016

The most popular tourist game in Key West these days is searching for that single, illusive parking spot. Top down on the signature rented orange Camaro, there they go around the block, the one riding shotgun pointing to, oops, not that one. If locals talk ceaselessly about traffic, they can come to blows over parking […]

Guest AuthorApril 14, 2016

Nothing said summer in the old South like the taste of boiled peanuts, the smell of tobacco drying in the barns and a big, ol’ cloud of DDT wafting on the evening breeze. I was one of the mid-century modern barefoot kids running down the dusty North Carolina street behind the mosquito truck. Every night […]

Guest AuthorApril 13, 2016

Seriously? We are arguing about sharing bathrooms again? Didn’t we get that out of our collective political systems in the five years it took to kill the Equal Rights Amendment? On March 22, 1972, Congress sent the simply worded, proposed 27th amendment to the states for approval. Congress gave the states seven years to ratify […]

Guest AuthorApril 11, 2016

Given our graying population and rising sea levels, Florida should be the role model for managing old people and coping with flooding backyards. We aren’t, though in fairness to Florida, neither is any other state. Americans — outside of deep-thinking tank people — don’t talk about what the heck we are going to do with […]

Guest AuthorMarch 31, 2016

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, 2016

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 24, 2016

While serving as Lt. Governor of Florida, I had the opportunity to speak on the phone with Elsa Morejon, the wife of a political prisoner in Cuba, Dr. Oscar Biscet. Friends of Elsa had asked me to contact her and encourage her while her husband lingered in a maximum-security prison run by the communist police […]

Staff ReportsMarch 10, 2016

The Florida Senate approved a bill (HB 659) that makes several changes to automobile insurance laws. The measure keeps the pre-insurance program, something consumer advocates have said helps defend against fraud. Jennifer West, executive director of the Consumer Federation of the Southeast, said in a statement: “With the possibility of more auto fraud and higher […]

Staff ReportsMarch 3, 2016

The Florida Legislature sent a bill to Gov. Rick Scott that would overhaul Florida’s death penalty. The bill requires at least 10 out of 12 jurors must recommend execution in order for it to be carried out. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement: “I want to thank state lawmakers for prioritizing this important […]

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Jacksonville, Key West being considered as Navy surveillance drone sites

Linda Cunningham: Parking in paradise ain’t pretty

Linda Cunningham: Halting Zika virus creates conundrum in the Keys

Linda Cunningham: Yet again, we’re arguing about sharing bathrooms

Linda Cunningham: Old people need a plan for ‘when it’s time’

Linda Cunningham: Reconnecting with Cuba needs to be done carefully, slowly

Linda Cunningham: Reconnecting with Cuba needs to be done carefully, slowly

Jeff Kottkamp: Obama should show outrage over Cuba’s human rights violations

Capitol Reax: Pre-insurance inspection, Florida Keys Stewardship Act

Captiol Reax: Death penalty, Planned Parenthood, tax cuts, solar energy, Florida Keys Stewardship Act