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Peter SchorschMarch 2, 2014

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No one’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session, Mark Twain famously remarked. Unfortunately for many Floridians, the Florida Legislature has taken Twain’s words more as a challenge, rather than a warning. A recent Tampa Bay Times editorial was right when it said that under the current regime in Tallahassee, “it is […]

Peter SchorschJanuary 23, 2014

6min227
What’s going on in the Florida House? Republicans are pushing compassionate laws? Taking on issues that were once reserved for bleeding hearts on the Left? Huh? First, there’s Speaker Will Weatherford, Republican beacon, staking firmly his position in favor of offering in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants. Now, there’s state Rep. Matt Gaetz, no schlub in […]

Peter SchorschJanuary 20, 2014

4min142
For a full decade, a measure filed in the Legislature was doomed before bill drafting entered the final line. The proposal — to give in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants living in Florida — was unthinkable in Florida’s two Republican-controlled chambers. Remember, these elected Republicans were to answer to their Republican constituents every election cycle, and […]

Peter SchorschJanuary 12, 2014

7min213
A headline from The Onion spread via social media Thursday announced, “Florida State to Phase Out Academic Operations By 2010.” The piece, obviously in jest, continued: “Bowing to pressure from alumni, students, and a majority of teaching professors of Florida State University, athletic director Dave Hart Jr. announced yesterday that FSU would completely phase out all academic […]

Peter SchorschJanuary 9, 2014
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Outside of the fictional Indiana city of Pawnee, the setting for NBC’s comedy series, “Parks and Recreation,” most people don’t attend public hearings. And, according to a study by the Knight Foundation, doing so is more likely to reduce a person’s sense of political efficacy than to increase it. “Despite the fact that governments are pumping out more […]

Peter SchorschJanuary 2, 2014
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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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