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Guest AuthorNovember 3, 2015

What in the world is going on? As if our political world isn’t enough to drive us crazy, we seem to be bombarded by a constant barrage of bizarre events that are difficult to comprehend. Nonetheless, the news media insists on producing stories testing our common sense. They would be funny if we knew they […]

Phil AmmannOctober 27, 2015

Florida’s economy is expected to remain strong for the next three years, boosted by steady population growth and healthy tourism. The good economic news for the Sunshine State came through its annual financial checkup Tuesday morning at the Florida Chamber of Commerce Insurance Summit taking place in Orlando. Providing the update was a presentation by […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 2, 2015

It’s a chicken-egg problem: Which comes first, the wise society or the wise citizenry? A wise society looks after the well-being of its citizenry. In order for there to be a wise society, though, many or most of its citizenry also must be wise since they create the society. But the society must educate its […]

Guest AuthorAugust 24, 2015

“It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty for yourselves and not for me. I appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that not with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office seekers, but with you, is the question: Shall the Union and shall the liberties of this […]

Guest AuthorAugust 23, 2015

“It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty for yourselves and not for me. I appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that not with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office seekers, but with you, is the question: Shall the Union and shall the liberties of this […]

Guest AuthorJune 29, 2015

“Are you ready to roll up your sleeves and get the work done?” Robert Avossa, the new Palm Beach County schools superintendent, asked an enthusiastic group of 250 to 300 in the Glades Central High School media center this past Thursday evening. The crowd was a cross-section of school administrators, teachers, staff, parents and local […]

Shannon NickinsonJune 16, 2015

Can we tell your future from your ZIP code? To hear Rick Harper tell it, those five numbers may be the closest thing to a crystal ball that we are likely to get for the moment. Harper, the University of West Florida’s assistant vice president for Economic Development and senior fellow of the Studer Community […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 22, 2015

Appalled, perplexed, baffled, mystified, angry. Any of these words captures how I feel upon reading story after story about the rise of anti-Semitism, especially in Europe. I am mindful of George Santayana’s adage, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Apparently that condemnation includes us all. We continue to see […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 18, 2015

He worked for six Florida governors and two presidents, helped found 1000 Friends of Florida, and is active in the Everglades Foundation and the Natural Resources Defense Council. His resume is impressive. But the Apollo School Foundation, kicking off a new speaker series, wanted Nathaniel Reed, 81, well-known as a storyteller, to share his childhood […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 2, 2014

A little controversy in my town shows how government is tugged in different directions. Transpose it to your community and you can see the forces at odds in so many Florida cities as people disagree about what should be government priorities. It was a fairly routine prostitution sting in Pensacola. An undercover police officer approaches […]

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Tim Bryce: It's getting strange out there

Florida Chamber Summit forecasts state’s economy to remain strong for next three years

Barry Jason Mauer: How do you make a society wise?

Ed H. Moore: It’s time to recover our promise as a great nation

Ed H. Moore: It’s time to recover our promise as a great nation

Catherine Martinez: New school superintendent promises evaluation, change

Shannon Nickinson: The tough nut of Pensacola’s renewal

Ed Moore: Are we Condemned to relive the anti-Semitic 1930s?

Sally Swartz: Nathaniel Reed's Old Florida included movie stars and snakes

Mark O’Brien: Hookers show that governing is tricky