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Guest AuthorOctober 6, 2014

The Florida Education Association is highly litigious, politically active and flush with resources from membership dues and fees. It often gets its way, but not without collateral damage. In its fight with the Legislature for more school funding, the union is determined to destroy a privately funded scholarship program giving 68,000 of Florida’s poorest students the opportunity to […]

Diane RobertsOctober 5, 2014

A College Republican Speaks: So, OK, chicks. I mean, girls, um, WOMEN. That’s it. Women. They don’t vote for us. We need to make them vote for us. So we’re targeting some campaign spots, spots focusing on the sh–, the stuff, girls like. I mean, women. Like this genius wedding dress ad for the Florida […]

Guest AuthorOctober 2, 2014

Unfortunately, it’s a true story. Last week I was flying from D.C.’s Reagan National Airport to West Palm Beach on US Airways flight 1935, scheduled to depart at 3.15 p.m., changing planes in Philadelphia. Arrival in Palm Beach 8 p.m. I had high hopes for this journey since US Airways had just merged with American Airlines and […]

Martin DyckmanOctober 1, 2014

In considering the exploitation of college athletes, it’s usually about how little they share of the stupendous wealth they generate for the big football and basketball programs. Not much is said about the risks they take. In that regard, it would be hard to find a worse case than what happened to Ereck Plancher and […]

Gary FineoutSeptember 30, 2014

Florida Gov. Rick Scott has been crossing the state this past week, vowing at campaign stops that if he’s re-elected he will enact another $1 billion in tax cuts over the next two years. Scott has said he can enact the tax cuts as well as boost spending on education and pay for new projects […]

Gary FineoutSeptember 30, 2014

Florida Gov. Rick Scott has been crossing the state this past week, vowing at campaign stops that if he’s re-elected he will enact another $1 billion in tax cuts over the next two years. Scott has said he can enact the tax cuts as well as boost spending on education and pay for new projects […]

Daniel TilsonSeptember 30, 2014

If you or folks you know are tuning out Florida’s 2014 midterm elections and don’t plan to vote, we need to talk. No worries, there’ll be no scolding. No finger wagging or whining about your civic duty. No repetition of the “If you don’t vote, don’t complain!” line. Far as I’m concerned, you never lose […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 30, 2014

A new AARP poll shows what nearly everyone who lives in Florida has known for some time. There are three basic economic engines in Florida: tourism, agriculture and retirees. Sure, under the umbrella of retirees you can include home building and health care, but if retirees don’t come, the jobs associated with those industries will […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 29, 2014

With five weeks left in Florida’s governor’s race, the contest is almost exactly where prognosticators expected it to be. The most recent numbers from Survey USA (ranked by data guru Nate Silver as the most reliable pollsters operating this cycle in the state) peg the race at Rick Scott 43 percent, Charlie Crist 42 percent. […]

Martin DyckmanSeptember 28, 2014

“If the law says that,” said Mr. Bumble, “the law is a ass, a idiot.” — Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist Florida’s First District Court of Appeal sits in splendid isolation in a Tallahassee suburb, five and a half miles from the Capitol, housed in a magnificent edifice nicknamed the Taj Mahal for the $50 million […]

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William Patrick: Coalition forms to help protect scholarship program for poor

Diane Roberts: Like, what’s all the fuss, like, over this Scott ad about chicks?

Rachel Patron: A special Yom Kippur prayer for the pilot and crew who flew us home to West Palm Beach

Martin Dyckman: Court to decide if college athletic programs can keep immunity

State may not have enough money for Rick Scott's plans

State may not have enough money for Rick Scott’s plans

Daniel Tilson: Here’s why you should vote in the Florida election on Nov. 4

Jamie Miller: Florida needs to attract more retirees to help the economy thrive

Peter Schorsch: Gubernatorial race is a politician version of “The Hustler”

Martin Dyckman: Fla. Supreme Court must restore common sense in election dispute