At this point, we already know that Florida’s COVID-19 cases are rising “at an alarming rate,” as U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said on Thursday.
On Jan. 6, Americans witnessed on live television what few could have imagined: a violent, real-time invasion of the U.S. Capitol as part of an attempt to halt the peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next.
From its earliest days in 1974, the Florida Commission on Ethics has been criticized as too lax in punishing politicians and candidates for illegal conduct that crushes faith in government.
The Catholic Church’s attempt to repair the damage caused by decades of priestly abuse would be vastly improved by a full, transparent, easy-to-use national list of abusive clerics. And no, that still doesn’t exist.
As the U.S. recovers from a pandemic, with workers in services and manufacturing in short supply across the economy, here’s what no one sensible thinks America urgently needs: a huge new federal Civilian Climate Corps.
The virus is not behind us. It is still in lots of us. That’s becoming clearer, more troubling and more frustrating by the day.
For most Americans, the back-and-forth legal battle over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that provided temporary peace of mind for the so-called “Dreamers” might seem like just another political battle in Washington. For the Dreamers, however, it’s much more serious.
A court ruling this month took University of Iowa administrators to task for repeatedly violating Christians’ First Amendment rights. The decision has rightly been celebrated for articulating the egregiousness of officials’ choices that singled out Christian student groups and denied them of…
Whether medical marijuana is wise or necessary is not for Florida’s courts to say. The people of our state have already settled that by voting it into the constitution. The initiative passed with some 6.5 million votes, a 71% landslide, in the 2016 election.
When the Florida Legislature gathers in Tallahassee, a sweep of the Sadowski Housing Trust Funds to pay for projects that have nothing to do with housing usually follows.
The Tokyo Olympic Games started Friday and will run through Aug 8. They will be remembered as the most challenging in the sports event’s history given the unprecedented pressure organizers face to make sure that it is safe and secure amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The richest man on Earth briefly lost that title Tuesday morning, but only because for a few floaty minutes he was no longer on Earth. Jeff Bezos has spent two decades using his Amazon wealth to underwrite a rocket venture, Blue Origin. On Tuesday the company launched its first manned flight…
With competition for employees at historic highs, one trade association is ramping up recruitment efforts to reach potential workers earlier and more creatively than ever. This is a smart approach that may be a harbinger of things to come.
When the cane fields burn and skies turn black over the Glades, mothers bring children indoors. That should tell you all you need to know.
Lawmakers kept on gerrymandering, so Floridians passed a constitutional amendment forcing them to draw fair voting districts.
Last week’s shockingly high temperatures in the northwestern US and Canada were – and are – very frightening. Heat and the fires it caused killed hundreds of people, and are estimated to have killed a billion sea creatures. Daily temperature records were smashed by more than 5C (9F) in some …
Everyone in Florida — and America, for that matter — should take pride in what took place last weekend in the small Italian village of Pietrasanta. Dignitaries from Florida beheld the formal unveiling of the statue of a great Floridian, Mary McLeod Bethune, an educator, feminist and civil ri…
President Biden and other world leaders are on the brink of an extraordinary agreement that could curb the maddening — and until now, seemingly insoluble — problem of corporate tax evasion. Success would mean hundreds of billions of dollars in new revenue for fixing crumbling infrastructure,…
Nine months after the election and six months after the U.S. Capitol riot their rhetoric inspired, many Republicans are still clinging to hope.
Hard to believe, but in a handful of weeks, most youngsters will be back in school.
The COVID wall that has blocked travel between the United States and Canada for 16 months should come down. As post-pandemic life resumes most of its normal activity, foreign travel should be restored as well.
Many of us spent the long Fourth of July weekend earlier this month celebrating our nation’s independence by attending fireworks displays, proudly flying the American flag at our homes or spending time with friends and family at cookouts.
The letters will go out this year as they do every August, notifying property owners in Miami-Dade County of their estimated taxes. The condo owners at the collapsed and now demolished Champlain Tower South will get those notices, too — no matter that their homes have been reduced to rubble,…
People elsewhere don’t care nearly as much about who will be New York City’s mayor as the national media seem to think we do. In one respect, however, the Democratic primary still being counted has major significance for the rest of the nation.
The “sea cows” are dying because of human activity.
When it comes to UFOs, we don’t know the right answer. The truth is still out there.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently served notice to the NCAA that it “is not above the law” and that business as usual is ending.
Parents for many generations have instructed their children to “Go outside and play.” Years ago, children would happily oblige.
South Florida’s long and sordid history of shoddy building practices is hard to ignore in the wake of the Surfside building’s partial collapse.
Sometimes we have to wonder about Gov. Ron DeSantis’ priorities. Earlier this month, the governor took an action that was particularly baffling — issuing a blanket pardon for anyone caught violating a city or county ordinance related to COVID-19 protections and waiving any fines.
The state government wants to know what political ideologies and beliefs university professors hold, and it’s giving the green light for students to secretly record lessons to later use what instructors say against them.
It’s the Fourth of July holiday weekend, so you can bet if Mother Nature cooperates there will be neighborhoods with their own backyard fireworks taking place this weekend. Sun ‘N Lake of Sebring took the lead on this holiday with their fireworks display last night, but there is plenty more …
As we approach the Fourth of July holiday, there is a general feeling across much of the region that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us. With that, this upcoming celebration of our nation’s independence will also be a de facto celebration of escaping the clutches of a once-in-a-…
If ever there were a summer to support local businesses, this is it.
Distance and disability should not hamper political participation.
The powers granted to police in our society are enormous.
The Florida Chamber of Commerce’s legislative report card is a reliable, annual reminder of how out of touch the state’s most influential business group is with the priorities of the state’s working class.
Imagine for a moment that you do terrific work, but you have a job where the rules keep changing and the people changing the rules don’t know or care what you do. But they are certain of this: They know your job better than you do.
For years, we asked what it would take for lawmakers in Tallahassee to take the affordable-housing shortage South Florida — and most of the state — are facing seriously.
Residents will be needing Real ID Act-compliant licenses to fly on airplanes, enter federal buildings or go into military bases. It is only because of the pandemic that the requirement is not in effect now.
They’re unheralded stars, true defenders of liberty and freedom.
The world knows Rosa Parks’ name and her story, and rightfully so.
Gov. Ron DeSantis has consistently been on the right side of one issue: protecting the Everglades.
Internal Revenue Service data obtained by ProPublica and published last week shows in black and white just how rigged toward the rich the U.S. tax code has become.
The Florida Supreme Court has handed down an important — but increasingly rare — open records win that’s going to mean faster access to information not just for the state’s press corps but for all Floridians.
In one short tweet Tuesday, Florida’s senior senator, Marco Rubio, managed to dismiss the idea that racial and social inequities exist in healthcare in this country.
Surf the latest U.S. headlines on immigration, and you’ll read plenty of criticisms from Republicans against Vice President Kamala Harris for not visiting the southern border and plenty of frustrations from Democrats that she needs to focus more on the root causes of migration out of Central…
The University of Alabama’s head football coach, Nick Saban, looks like he isn’t going anywhere.
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