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Martin DyckmanDecember 3, 2015

“Another day in the United States of America. Another day of gunfire, panic and fear. This time in the city of San Bernardino in California, where a civic building was apparently under attack.” That is the voice, tinged with sorrow and shock, of a BBC reporter describing yet another day in America. Just another day […]

Guest AuthorDecember 1, 2015

I resign from the Republican Party. I’ve hung in there for a while, and I’ve hoped that the current spate of crazy was just the normal primary nonsense. But at this point I really see nothing of what I believe in any of the viable candidates. The front-runner’s campaign slogan of “Heil Trump” is simply […]

Bill PrescottOctober 26, 2015

Term limits have spelled disaster for the Florida Legislature – erasing experience, dumbing down the process, and leaving lobbyists even more firmly in control. It was the achievement of people who preferred to weaken government rather than improve it. Florida being Florida, it figures that some people now propose to do the same to the […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 20, 2015

The U.S. Senate’s refusal to debate or vote on the Iran nuclear agreement is a national embarrassment. The culprit is clear: the 60-vote threshold required to stop a filibuster. It’s time to end the filibuster, a relic of the past that is contributing to gridlock and dysfunction. This week I sent a letter to Senate […]

Associated PressAugust 16, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wants more than a wall to keep out immigrants living in the country illegally. He also wants to end “birthright citizenship” for their children, he said Sunday. And he would rescind Obama administration executive orders on immigration and toughen deportation, allowing in only “the good ones.” Trump described his expanded […]

Guest AuthorJuly 27, 2015

Florida’s nine national parks are suffering, needing about $190 million in crucial maintenance left unfunded and neglected at the end of the last fiscal year, the National Park Service reports. Everglades National Park ended the past fiscal year with $58.8 million in unmet needs while Dry Tortugas National Park’s unfunded maintenance totaled $56.8 million, according […]

Guest AuthorJuly 26, 2015

Florida’s nine national parks are suffering, needing about $190 million in crucial maintenance left unfunded and neglected at the end of the last fiscal year, the National Park Service reports. Everglades National Park ended the past fiscal year with $58.8 million in unmet needs while Dry Tortugas National Park’s unfunded maintenance totaled $56.8 million, according […]

Peter SchorschJuly 22, 2015

After several months of cooking, a new proposed amendment to Florida’s constitution popped up this week. What is it? It’s a mouthful and is called, “All Voters Vote in Top Two Primary Elections for Congress, State Legislature, Governor, and Cabinet” and it basically changes the rules for how elections are conducted in Florida. It does […]

Guest AuthorJuly 19, 2015

The Florida Supreme Court recently invalidated the state’s congressional districts map, finding it had been drawn with unconstitutional intent to favor the majority party and incumbents. This landmark decision is the first to determine whether newly drawn legislative districts comply with the Fair Districts Amendment as passed by voters in 2010 to remove partisan gerrymandering […]

Martin DyckmanJuly 1, 2015

Those who flaunt the Confederate flag insist that it symbolizes “heritage,” not hate. Call it what they will, but that heritage is a heritage of hate. The slave owners and their politicians fancied themselves good, decent, God-fearing people. How could they square that with the countless hideous brutalities they inflicted on their human chattels? They […]

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Martin Dyckman: Insanity fueled by fraud keeps on killing

Scott Weese: GOP has finally gone too far

Martin Dyckman: Judiciary term limits? Bad idea

Vern Buchanan: Time to end the filibuster

Donald Trump: Deport children of immigrants living illegally in U.S.

Joseph H. Carter: Sheer neglect threatens Florida’s national parks

Joseph H. Carter: Sheer neglect threatens Florida’s national parks

Peter Schorsch: Old hands propose new notion to open Florida's primary elections

Glenn Burhans Jr.: O civility, where art thou?

Martin Dyckman: The time is now to take it down