The coronavirus pandemic overshadows many other issues, including climate change.
Nancy Pelosi must be supremely confident of a sweeping Democratic victory on Nov. 3. How else to explain why she refuses to compromise on a coronavirus relief bill when President Trump is aching for her to accept another $1.5 trillion?
September is National Suicide Prevention Month, and now, more than ever, we need to be mindful of our own mental health and that of our loved ones. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has led to increases in anxiety, depression and suicides, but there are things we can do for ourselves and for …
With fewer people on the roads during the coronavirus pandemic, it seems nearly all states are reporting that those on the roads are speeding more than ever. The result is making deadly highways even deadlier.
There’s a movement spreading across the country this year. One which recognizes a monumental event. It’s not about race, the election, or the coronavirus and the economy. It’s about gender.
Given her history, it’s unsurprising that U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos tried to use the pandemic to coddle wealthy private schools at the expense of public school children by unilaterally altering the standard school funding formula in disbursing pandemic relief funds. Thankfully, a …
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You have a far better chance of getting hit by lightning than being injured on a theme park ride in Central Florida.
The South Carolina Senate has passed a resolution honoring actor and Anderson native Chadwick Boseman, who recently died at age 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer.
It is more important than ever to get your flu shot this year and to get it early.
There was a time in America when discussing mental health was something that just wasn’t done. Admitting that you were feeling sad or depressed was considered a sign of weakness. Thankfully, many today understand that it actually takes an incredible amount of strength to talk to someone abou…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has taken the right move to protect people from evictions during the coronavirus pandemic. They are right, throwing thousands of whole families into the streets or forcing them into shelters is a sure-fire way to spread COVID-19, which wil…
For more than six months now, many workers deemed essential have had to strap on face masks for shifts at meatpacking plants, Walmarts, grocery stores, hardware stores and restaurants. It is a necessary sacrifice for the nation’s well-being. But at universities across the country, while scor…
In the national news, the riots that have been ignited all over the nation have been making headlines. One of the biggest controversies surrounding the riots is the absolute destruction they have caused across the nation. Many people argue that these riots are counterproductive for their cau…
The violent protests of the last three months in Portland, Ore., escalated on recently into a right-left confrontation that resulted in one man shot dead in the streets. This is what happens when political leaders fail to perform the most basic responsibility of government to protect innocen…
We live in a world of stark extremes that are artificially created for partisan impact.
Floridians have never been able to trust the number of coronavirus cases reported by the DeSantis administration.
We’re helpless against violence, whether locally or in Wisconsin or somewhere else in the nation. Worse, no one has a promising plan or idea to stop us from showing our worst to one another.
This fall’s general election will be both unusual and important.
As is often the case, a few bad apples make us forget about the good in the basket as a whole — particularly when we are talking about young people. It is too easy for members of older generations to grumble about “kids these days,” and point to examples of irresponsibility, apathy and even …
America basically has turned into an outrage machine, which makes it odd to say that there is one topic that is not producing enough outrage in American discourse.
Thank you to the businesses, institutions and individuals who are taking it upon themselves to encourage proven health and safety measures as we navigate this most unusual time. We all yearn for a return to life as we knew it before the coronavirus took all of that away.
Imagine your job involves typing on a keyboard – not a stretch for most us.
The wave of restrictions began hitting college campuses around the country this past week. It seemed almost inevitable that it would.
Fall classes already have begun at some colleges and universities. During the next few weeks, hundreds more will attempt to do so.
Labor Day weekend in 2020 will be a lot like Memorial Day weekend and Fourth of July weekend were. Large gatherings will be frowned upon, or at least discouraged.
The news from Florida’s most ignored hotbed of COVID-19 is getting worse: Behind bars, and away from society, the coronavirus is spreading like a California wildfire.
The Democratic convention case against President Trump boils down to Covid and character, and the polls suggest it’s working. But the bigger issue next year will be reviving the economy from the shutdown recession, and on that score the Democrats are mostly quiet. Perhaps that’s because Joe …
It’s right to worry about voting. President Trump is worried about voting by mail. Constituents are worried about safety at polling places. Election commissioners are worried about staffing the polls. And we all worry about election fraud. With the November election 79 days away, the topic o…
You can tell when state leaders in Tallahassee don’t want to do something.
Did you know the U.S. Postal Service is sitting on about $47 billion that could be tapped to add employees, improve service, pay overtime and otherwise make its operations more efficient?
Even before President Trump signed an executive order that could soon smother social network TikTok, Microsoft emerged as a potential savior for the U.S.-based but Chinese-owned video snacking service. Now, Twitter and several investment companies are also reportedly talking to TikTok’s owne…
The Big Ten and Pac-12 became the first Power 5 conferences — those eligible for the college football national championship — to cancel fall play last week, putting caution ahead of pressure.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed a lot of things about our daily lives, but there are some things that never change. While the majority of us are doing what we can to adapt to the changing situation, there are others who are out to prey upon the vulnerable for a quick buck.
Your elected officials let small business support and unemployment support run out during the worst public health care crisis in 100 years and the worst economic downturn in 90 years. Is there even one public servant left in Washington, D.C.?
It may have been a tough decision to make, but tomorrow marks the first day that many of our students will return to the actual classroom for the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year.
A nation’s story will never be fully told if it excludes or minimizes the stories of all the people who make it a nation.
A publication from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about novel coronavirus infections among attendees at an overnight camp in Georgia made some headlines when it was published July 31.
Unfortunately, it feels a little like mid-March again when COVID-19 began scrambling our lives. That included the national sports events we enjoy watching, which fell like dominoes back then: the NBA, the NHL, baseball, the NCAA basketball tournaments …
Representative Louie Gohmert, Republican of Texas, is not the first member of Congress to test positive for the coronavirus. At least 14 lawmakers, hailing from both parties and both chambers, are known to have either tested or been presumed positive for the coronavirus.
If you’re one of those people who hates it when a stranger shows up uninvited at your home, the coronavirus pandemic has had one upside: keeping you away from door-to-door salespeople, petition-gatherers and religious proselytizers. The chance of getting COVID-19 discourages such outreach, p…
There is no good reason for parents not to immunize their children.
Tropical Storm Isaias brushed by Northeast Florida last week, leaving little behind but pounding surf and a scattering of brief power outages. By mid-day last Sunday, officials in Volusia, Flagler and St. Johns counties were pretty sure they would be spared any significant impact, and they w…
An analysis from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School looked at what it will take to protect voters and poll workers alike in November. We know digging out of the hole the coronavirus has pushed us into will have heavy costs, but the price tag for safer elections …
About 40% of the more than 146,000 Americans killed by COVID-19 have been residents of nursing homes. Somehow, despite knowing older people with pre-existing health conditions are most vulnerable to the virus, we as a nation allowed that to happen.
Early in the dispute over the wearing of face masks, supporters explained that the coverings weren’t so much about protecting the wearer as about shielding others.
The danger of erecting monuments to men is that they all stand on clay feet.
The escalating confrontation between the United States and China, the world’s two largest economies, could further destabilize the international situation. Both countries should realize their heavy responsibilities and stop the chain of retaliation.
