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Florence SnyderJanuary 13, 2014

Muckraking matters, but the true test of a newspaper’s mettle is its day-to-day commitment to telling ordinary stories in extraordinary ways. Florida lost one of its most gifted — and beloved — storytellers Saturday when Tim O’Meilia, 65, succumbed to cancer. O’Meilia leaves behind wife Debbie, sons Rolly and Casey, and generations of Florida journalists […]

Florence SnyderDecember 5, 2013

Arthur England was an unpretentious man. Unlike a lot of retired traffic magistrates, he did not want to be called “Judge” after he left the Florida Supreme Court in 1981. It was easy to forget that for all of his professional life, he really was the smartest guy in the room. England, who died Aug. […]

Florence SnyderSeptember 25, 2013

With the passing of Dexter Douglass, Florida has lost one more of its dwindling supply of lawyers who make friends out of clients, and leave them in better condition than they found them. Douglass hung out his shingle in an era when law was a respected profession and lawyers aspired to be the person in […]

Florence SnyderSeptember 8, 2013

Context Florida Publisher Peter Schorsch got it wrong — dead wrong — when he suggested in his Sept. 5 Saintpetersblog post that reporter envy might taint coverage of “the Chris Clark imbroglio.” Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau Chief Mary Ellen Klas broke the story that Florida’s power elite spent the week chewing over, praying over, and […]

Florence SnyderSeptember 3, 2013

As Sen. Eleanor Sobel and Interim Department of Children & Families Secretary Esther Jacobo were practicing their talking points for last month’s Tri-County Legislative Delegation Town Hall, the Miami Herald was toting up bodies for its explanatory journalism headlined Killing our kids. Veteran reporter Carol Marbin Miller knows where the public records are, and she’s […]

Florence SnyderJuly 28, 2013

There’s not much to smile about in this Summer of Tsuris. Governor Rick Scott has fled the jurisdiction as Dream Defenders occupy the Capitol. Deck chairs are being shuffled at the Department of Children & Families. The Agency for Health Care Administration is using the children it warehouses in geriatric nursing homes as an excuse to bash Obamacare. Obscene “compensation” pours […]

Florence SnyderApril 15, 2013

Mad Men is back on television, reminding us how far the science of selling has fallen since the Age of the Three Martini Lunch. Don Draper, the sexiest advertising man not really alive, and his partners at the fictional 1960s Madison Avenue agency Sterling Cooper Draper, might seduce their secretaries and play their wives for fools, but […]