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Scott PowersJune 15, 2016

Love is conquering in Orlando. That’s the Day 4 message of Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs, as the community pulls together a remarkable recovery effort from Bloody Sunday and confronts a third tragedy in five days. Dyer and Jacobs addressed the city and the world Wednesday morning from outside of […]

Scott PowersJune 13, 2016

After briefly expressing sympathy for and solidarity with the people of Orlando, Donald Trump used Sunday’s Pulse nightclub massacre as reason to double-down Monday on his desires to ban Muslim immigrants and broaden domestic intelligence gathering. In a speech at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire that was billed as an attack on presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary […]

Guest AuthorJuly 20, 2015

With the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on marriage for gay couples, Florida leaders have an important decision to make when it comes to our national and international reputation. Will we be a state that embraces equality and fairness or will we be seen as a state that resists progress and shuns diversity? The Supreme Court […]

Guest AuthorJune 22, 2014

Thanks to modern pharmacology, to the eternal relief of couples everywhere, his erectile dysfunction may be due to decreased blood flow, not age, and treatable — or so the advertising claims. And, happily, with judicious pill-popping they may be back in the sack to marital (or whatever) bliss, their only major fear being that an […]

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Love is conquering, say mayors Buddy Dyer, Teresa Jacobs

Donald Trump says Orlando attack a reason to close borders, tighten intelligence

Patrick Geraghty: More support needed to pass state laws against workplace discrimination

Stephen Goldstein: Boycotts are the cure for Florida’s Electoral Dysfunction