Many of you decided to become newspaper headline writers last week when we posted a story and photos of the Taco Bell in Englewood catching fire.
Michael Bloomberg has delivered his latest delicious hint about running for president. Former Attorney General Eric Holder is fresh from taking credit for the new Democratic legislative majorities in Virginia, making it known he might be interested. And former Gov. Deval Patrick joined the p…
A few words about walls.
Can I just say that it would be incredibly sweet to see a guy who made his fortune in the news media defeat an incumbent president who has declared the news media to be the enemy of the people?
I admit to (almost) stifling a laugh when the Citrus County Commission refused to pay $2,700 so the public library could offer a New York Times subscription.
If we are what we eat, sometimes we aren’t very good for ourselves.Local restaurants aren’t always helpful. For the gluten-intolerant, there’s fear of cross-contamination. Never mind misunderstandings about the difference between vegetarian and the purely non-animal vegan.
Instead of watching Fox News, which manufactures heroic propaganda about President Donald Trump, Republican voters could learn much more from seeing a few hours of Russian television. It is on shows broadcast from Moscow and St. Petersburg where the truth about the Trump administration can b…
I’m here to offer you an action list.
It was only natural for me to take a keen interest in meeting Harold and Jeanne Perry.
Have you noticed that the two parties’ fields of presidential candidates have, in the past two election cycles, grown enormously larger than (if not necessarily superior to) those in past years? Where parties used to have two to five serious candidates to choose from, Republicans had 17 in 2…
Dear Soldier,
Happy Anniversary to Florida’s Water and Land Conservation Amendment!
In many ways, I did not want to write this week’s Top Five column because it meant I had to re-read the story at #1. I really didn’t want to visit that story again because of the new, horrifying details.
In January, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the pending demise of Common Core (CC) in Florida, precipitating efforts by the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) to derive improved Florida educational standards.
As far as I can tell from a reading of history, while some presidents were friends of clergy, who sometimes advised them, to my knowledge, none hired them as staff members. Until the presidency of Richard Nixon. It was during Nixon’s administration that Charles Colson began mobilizing the ev…
“Every generation blames the one before.” — Mike + The Mechanics
WASHINGTON — The torrent of astonishing talk from Democratic presidential aspirants has included two especially startling ideas. One is that we are going to die — the climate change crisis is "existential" — unless America does a slew of things that the aspirants know are not going to be don…
Charters and private schools are here to stay in Florida, and that’s just the way it is. That’s not a bad thing. But the rules that apply to public schools sometimes don’t apply to the other schools.
CAPTAIN CRAB’S ON A ROLL
Shortly after Jim Bakker’s release from prison in July 1994, I invited the disgraced TV evangelist to my home. There was an important question I wanted to ask him.
