The preliminaries are over and the real games — the ones that go on your record — begin tonight.
Today, you can walk into a fireworks store and buy strings of Black Cats, a box of cherry bombs, Roman candles, bottle rockets and Catherine wheels.
In a new book, “The Mosquito — A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator,” the author Timothy C. Wineguard makes the claim that half the human population of all recorded time has died of mosquito-borne illness. That’s an estimated 52 billion people, in case you’re counting.
In what seems to be a regular occurrence during rainy season, the Sarasota County Health Department issued a no-swim advisory for yet another area beach last week — this time, Blind Pass Beach, just north of the Charlotte-Sarasota county line on Manasota Key.
Florida’s first-ever chief resilience officer is saying the right things about preparing the state to cope with climate change. That alone is a welcome improvement from former Gov. Rick Scott’s administration. But Julia Nesheiwat will need to work closely with local officials and raise her p…
Rep. Anthony Brindisi pretty much summed it up.
Earlier this year, state lawmakers decided that Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez should have an office in Miami, allowing her to work outside of Tallahassee and closer to home from time to time. Florida’s Supreme Court justices are allowed to have remote offices as well.
Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway is trying, unsuccessfully so far, to get the state Attorney General’s Office to weigh in on whether a government entity should be able to hide certain information from the public.
Water, temperature and land use reconfirm the need for urgent action.
The high cost of prescription drugs and that market’s maddening complexity have become almost more than the private sector can bear.
In October 2017 the University of Florida took a bold, unpopular stand for true intellectual diversity and free speech — as an institution of higher learning should.
More than 10 years ago, a representative for a drug distributor wrote of the opioid products his company was receiving, “Keep ‘em comin’! Flyin’ out of here. It’s like people are addicted to these things or something. Oh, wait, people are... .”
The annual summer dead zone that develops in the Gulf of Mexico has arrived once again.
Another school year begins tomorrow.
One of the easiest ways to combat climate change is to stop tearing down old trees. This is why it is everyone’s problem that new Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro seems determined to chop away at the Amazon rainforest, the world’s greatest reserve of old-growth forest.
Hardly a week goes by without reports of some new scam designed to take money from good people.
Congress should renew funding for at least five years for the program that supports federally qualified health centers to ensure stability and preserve access to health care for those who rely on these sliding fee health care providers.
Doubling down on hardline attitudes will never solve the problem.
Gov. Ron DeSantis made a big splash last week when he traveled to Manasota Key in Englewood to announce the newly reconstituted red tide task force.
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle has a plan to make good on a promise that Floridians voted into the state Constitution, but that has already been subverted by a rabidly partisan Legislature.
