It will soon be safer for students to walk to school, thanks to Gov. DeSantis and the Legislature.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has spent more than two years promising foreign leaders that the U.S. is committed to a new global deal to raise taxes on large companies. Now Republicans in Congress have a warning for the rest of the world: Don’t believe her.
Hurricane season is upon us, and it’s never too early to prepare for a storm.
Possibly by the time the lunch hour arrives, South Florida State College will have a new president to lead the way for the immediate future.
It didn’t take long for West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, who can get a little hair-brained from time to time and is very thin-skinned, to recognize the appeal of conducting public briefings online without any constituents or press in the room with him.
We’re not sure how many tourists will avoid Florida in protest of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ culture wars, but the NAACP’s warning this month ought to come with one important reminder: There is more to Florida than Ron DeSantis. The Democratic mayors of Tampa and St. Petersburg sent that important m…
This year’s United Nations climate summit in Dubai marks another opportunity for world leaders to do more to slow global warming, replace fossil fuels with renewable energy and be held accountable for their emissions-cutting pledges.
When we read this month the U.S. Department of Agriculture was proposing a ban on chocolate and strawberry milk in the nation’s elementary and middle school cafeterias, we thought we were in for a food fight.
School is out for summer. It’s a time to celebrate our graduates and for students of all grades to enjoy a couple of months of freedom. It is, in many aspects, the best time of the year for kids.
The Magic Kingdom made about $1 billion disappear in Florida recently.
What’s more important: Wooing campaign supporters or meeting students’ needs?
This weekend is long, but not particularly for a celebration. Sure, there will be the smell of hamburgers and hot dogs being grilled in the neighborhoods. There will be laughter coming from those enjoying the warm water of our lakes. This is the weekend of high school graduations and the fir…
Florida needs to crack down on bootleg casino parlors
County schoosl graduate their latest group of seniors this weekend. It’s a time-honored tradition to send them off with best wishes for a successful future.
When most people think of The Salvation Army, the images that emerge are the bell-ringers and their red kettles encountered outside retail stores during the Christmas season or the Angel Tree program. They are, by a wide margin, the organization’s biggest and most effective marketing efforts…
This is planting season in the Farm Belt, and farmers are revving up for a big year ahead. Global demand for corn, soybeans and other basic commodities remains strong, supplies are tight and producers have plenty of money to invest in their crops as they eye a third straight year of robust f…
Another health crisis will come, sooner or later. Will we be ready? Will we care?
In just about any place else, Dr. Joseph Ladapo wouldn’t hold the job he now has. But, this is Florida, where the surgeon general who runs the Florida Department of Health and holds a faculty position at the University of Florida can espouse dubious scientific theories, run afoul of commonly…
So. It looks as if South Florida State College — which, less than a month ago, was in the endgame of a presidential search that had been narrowed to three highly qualified candidates — will instead get our own state Rep. Fred Hawkins.
It’s a rare day when Gov. Ron DeSantis visits Broward.
House Republicans last week released their latest report on the Biden family’s business ties, and one conclusion is that it’s good to be related to Joseph Robinette Biden. Hunter Biden and his relatives traded profitably off the Biden name with transactions that suggest the main family busin…
A 79-year-old advice columnist – along with a handful of other brave women who testified in her case – has done what legal and political institutions have not yet managed: held the former president Donald Trump accountable in law for his actions, and for his lies.
Anyone familiar with America’s labor history knows there are good reasons for the strict child-labor laws in place across the U.S. Yet around the nation now, business groups are working to loosen those laws and allow younger children to work more hours, or in previously prohibited settings, …
With Gov. Ron DeSantis’ heavy-handed power grabs on local school boards and the punitive political climate in Florida, especially in education, anyone with the slightest common sense might think twice about raising a hand for the Broward County School superintendent’s job.
As the 60-day session of the Florida Legislature drew to a close, the House and Senate were close to approving bills — HB 7065 and SB 7052 — that would finally make insurers more accountable to their customers. It was an effort that began way too late and shouldn’t have taken until the sessi…
Today we honor the women who forever hold a special place in our hearts. We celebrate with dinners, kind words, cards and gifts, but those pale in comparison to what the day really signifies. For most of us, it means honoring the singular person in our lives who we held most dear from our ea…
Regional banks took another market drubbing on recently, as the financial panic rolls on despite regulatory assurances that all is well. The turmoil wasn’t helped when midsize TD Bank and First Horizon Bank called off their merger, blaming regulatory impediments.
Nearly a decade ago, a federal investigation into the Ferguson, Missouri, police department drew widespread attention to how many municipalities rely on funding from hefty court fees and fines, often resulting from minor automobile-related violations. This encourages aggressive enforcement a…
Nearly half (46%) of all child safety seats are not properly used or installed, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
If you’ve been looking down your nose at folks gathered around a designated outdoor smoking area having a cigarette, maybe you’d better look again.
It is a time to fete scholarship recipients and a time to recognize those who cover the White House. It is also a time for jokes, with the president being the subject of many and journalists also having volleys fired their way.
Florida has a history of sending the wrong people to prison. The least it can do is make it easier for them to get the compensation they deserve.
Rishi Sunak is readying a billion pounds to subsidize the U.K.’s fledgling microchip industry. It sounds big. But the British government is merely reacting to U.S. economic warfare against China. Behind the talk of “friendshoring” and resurgent industrial policy is a struggle to avoid collat…
Changes to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s mortgage pricing are creating a stir in the marketplace, not that the bureaucracy wants to admit it. The changes, which took effect last week, raise costs for some good-credit borrowers while making mortgages cheaper for low-income borrowers.
It was never realistic to expect that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. would go before Congress for a clobbering over Supreme Court ethics rules. But citizens are entitled to expect more from him than what they got this week after he decided not to testify before the Senate Judiciary Commit…
The old-fashioned way states craft learning standards for grade-school students is slow and sure: Committee upon committee of stakeholders, from teachers to mathematicians to geographers to political scientists, work out how best to distill a vast body of knowledge down to what’s most import…
We all know how much Disney loves sequels. But here’s a safe prediction: “Ron DeSantis and The Multiverse of Madness” is going to be a flop, for everyone involved.
They don’t want Florida residents to know what the governor is up to or who is visiting him at the governor’s mansion.
You mean you didn’t set your alarm to go off at 4:45 a.m.?
Expanded electric car subsidies were supposed to be a centerpiece of President Biden’s signature climate law, accelerating emissions reductions by allowing buyers to claim generous tax credits and save thousands of dollars on a plug-in vehicle.
The wailing you heard across the land last week was the sound of thousands of journalists lamenting the settlement of the defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News. An entire industry of reporters has been denied the schadenfreude of seeing their hated political and medi…
Only 47% of Democrats want to see Joe Biden on the ballot in 2024, according to the latest Associated Press poll. That’s not because they think he’s done a bad job in office. Democrats tend to like President Biden and continue to give him good marks on handling the economy and foreign policy.
Saturday marked Earth Day, and an opportunity to assess and reflect on this nation’s past, present and future events and issues concerning our environment.
Signing controversial bills into law behind closed doors isn’t exactly the best look for an ambitious politician whose schtick is to project toughness. More a wuss move than a show of strength. But, there was Gov. Ron DeSantis once again holding a “private” bill-signing ceremony on a law he’…
The proposed amendment would be an extension of the state’s Slayer Law, which stops a murderer from financially benefiting from the killing.
At least one member of the Supreme Court told Justice Clarence Thomas that there was no problem accepting privately paid luxury trips and other lavish gifts from “close personal friends” without disclosing them, according to a statement issued earlier this month by Justice Thomas. Whoever it…
Florida’s working-class families are suffering. But state coffers are brimming over with record surpluses that will likely produce Florida’s biggest budget ever. Too often, this state’s leaders have failed to turn some of that bounty to those who need it most.
Florida has a 12-month wildfire season. We always have to have our guard up, but do catch an occasional break like we did several days ago. The heavy rains over the three days did little to put out the chance of a wildfire as our county firefighters can attest.
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