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Guest AuthorSeptember 24, 2015

I headed to D.C. this summer to attend the wedding of a former colleague of mine, Ryan Newell. Ryan plays guitar in a band called Sister Hazel. They were a local bar band when I was in college and I got to know them as I went to a bar once, just that once, and […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 6, 2015

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Julie DelegalAugust 17, 2015

As former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush abandons his Paleolithic diet by eating a fried Snickers bar in Iowa, feminists everywhere wish he’d abandon his stone-age ideology, too. Bush wants to “publicly shame” mothers who give birth out of wedlock, arguing that the lack of stigma is what causes illegitimate births. With apologies to Sam Cooke, […]

Marc YachtJune 2, 2015

Never a technocrat, we purchased our first color television in the late 80s and used TV antennas through the mid-90s. We avoided satellite costs until decent TV disappeared. I finally escaped my 60s lifestyle when I received an office-issued cell phone. It was carried in a large shoulder bag and might have had a rotary […]

Guest AuthorMarch 25, 2015

The problems that Florida schools suffered when glitches halted administration of computerized state tests highlighted the intimate relationship between education and technology. I was reminded of this marriage recently when I visited a replica of a 1935 Florida classroom at the Yesteryear Village. I was suddenly transported back into the mid 60s classroom of my […]

Guest AuthorMarch 8, 2015

Florida’s educational ship of state hit an iceberg last week. By the end of the week, Education Commissioner Pam Stewart was insisting that it was just a “small gash” and that the problem had been fixed. Legislators are rushing in to change the route and even suggesting that the ship return to port. The voyage […]

Guest AuthorJune 19, 2014

I admit it. I’m addicted. Social media, my phone, television, all things Internet — I would not want to live without them. I turn 40 next month and I’ve had the luxury of: growing up without the Internet, reading physical books in the library that I found using a card catalog, remembering the first time […]

Guest AuthorDecember 29, 2013

Villainous actor Strother Martin uttered a classic line in the movie “Cool Hand Luke” that stands at No. 11 on the American Film Institute’s top 100 movie quotations of American cinema’s first century: “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” As one whose right brain vastly overpowers his left, I’m compelled to focus on […]

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Crowds gather to see Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. (Gabrielle Russon)

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Benefits of Social Media for Business That You Can’t Ignore

Julie Delegal: Jeb Bush vilifies unwed mothers, ignores economic reality

Marc Yacht: After bioterror scares fizzled, cell phones inflicted collective autism

Catherine Martinez: Schools vault from chalk dust to technology marvels

Catherine Martinez: Florida's Titanic testing journey

Leandra Preston-Sidler: Appreciating the simple moments in midst of technology onslaught

Rich Sloane: We have a ‘failure to communicate’; technology is to blame