Anne GeggisJune 1, 2023
7min0
Many of the journalists say they don't earn enough to live in the cities they cover.
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Anne GeggisJune 1, 2023Anne GeggisFebruary 20, 2023
6min0
Financing is uncertain for Stet Media Group, but a trio of journalists are betting it will catch on.
Anne GeggisAugust 23, 2022
7min0
The businesswoman will compete with Republican to represent the inland Palm Beach County district.
Anne GeggisAugust 23, 2022
5min0
The chief rivals' campaigns collectively spent nearly a quarter million in the last 12-day stretch reaching until Thursday.
Florence SnyderFebruary 10, 2017
4min257
The Very Best Idea in Florida Right This Minute comes from Palm Beach County Commissioner Melissa McKinlay, who is asking Gov. Rick Scott to call Florida’s heroin epidemic by its right name: a public health crisis. This should be a no-brainer for Scott. With heroin-related hospital bills running at close to a billion a year […]
Florence SnyderDecember 11, 2016
2min235
Florida’s Ministries of Disinformation got an early Christmas present from Santa in Atlanta when Cox Newspapers pulled the plug on the Tallahassee Bureau of The Palm Beach Post and laid off its lone remaining ranger, veteran newsman John Kennedy. The Cox media empire was born in Dayton, Ohio in an era when men with political […]
Florence SnyderNovember 8, 2016
5min181
Grumpy and possibly jealous old men — some with newspaper columns — disapproved of Saturday’s comedy debut of Anthony Rizzo, Dexter Fowler, and Tallahassee homeboy David Ross. Fresh off their World Series win, the trio swung by Saturday Night Live to sing “Go Cubs Go” with superfan and trained professional comedian Bill Murray, and to bump and grind with Benedict Cumberbatch in a […]
Peter SchorschAugust 8, 2016
2min210
In the Treasure Coast race to replace Patrick Murphy in Congressional District 18, Jonathan Chane is being badly outspent by disaster response business owner Randy Perkins in the Democratic primary. And when you’re being thrashed in spending, you hope the hometown paper at least throws you a bone and gives you the endorsement. Perkins is a […]
Jac VerSteegMay 24, 2016
8min249
In a “Dear Colleague” letter, the Obama administration has issued guidelines explaining how public schools should treat transgender students. As a policy, it is good. As a political tactic, maybe not so much. The directive says public schools should let students use bathrooms and dressing rooms that match their gender identity rather than the gender […]
Jac VerSteegApril 11, 2016
7min209
I confess I was delighted when I first saw the viral video of a woman berating Florida Gov. Rick Scott in a Gainesville Starbucks. This was an instance, I thought, of the underdog amateur defeating the villainous professional. It was the 1980 U.S. Hockey team beating the Russians. It was Jamie Lee Curtis escaping Michael […]