With our schedules suddenly opened up — no place to go, no meetings to attend, no events to squeeze in — it’s easy to while away the day in front of the TV or computer or curled up with a good book.
March was a month like one most everybody cannot recall.
That has to be the question on the minds of millions of Florida taxpayers in the tumultuous days since the Florida Legislature unanimously passed a record $93.2 billion state budget.
After we saw toilet paper and sanitary wipes disappear from our grocery shelves overnight with the coronavirus panic, this probably shouldn’t have surprised us.
Why it matters: States should prepare now to protect the 2020 election from the pandemic.
Tokyo, International Olympic Committee made correct, costly call to postpone the 2020 Games.
It’s an unspoken fact of life for government at all levels: If a problem is important to those in power, it gets done — and if it doesn’t matter much to them, it can simply be ignored.
As the deadly coronavirus tightens its grip, Florida faces another gut punch: a massive surge in unemployment claims by people who find themselves suddenly out of work and needing help to survive.
We take them for granted, those grocery store clerks who scan and bag our purchases. Same with with the workers who stock the shelves and slice meat behind the deli counter.
We can’t believe we even have to say this but here goes: Grandparents must not be sacrificed to save our economy.
Most of us are understandably preoccupied with the latest news about COVID-19. So much else goes unnoticed.
We need to pull together now to aid our neighbors who are most in need.
Seniors need us more than ever: Older residents face unprecedented isolation.
Another coronavirus rise: Your anxiety, your inactivity and your fridge. Here’s what to do.
Our corner of the world seems far removed from the way things were a week or so ago.
At a time when patience and kindness should be at a high point, expect tensions to rise amid the latest news about the coronavirus.
You don’t have to be a trained scientist to know that spending time online can raise your blood pressure.
We can reduce the COVID-19 spread and lessen burden on health care system.
If you’re not acknowledging the problem by now, you are part of the problem.
To understand how the United States is dealing with the threat of coronavirus, you have to hold two truths in your mind simultaneously.
The advent of the novel coronavirus in the United States is putting our society to an unprecedented test.
Floridians, don’t cower over coronavirus. Be patient and generous, and help the vulnerable.
Florida pays Medicaid providers 56% of Medicare rates, one of the lowest seven states in the nation.
A peace agreement signed Saturday between U.S. officials and representatives of Afghanistan’s Taliban organization is long overdue, as far as Americans are concerned. We have spent far too much and lost too many lives in what has become the longest armed conflict in our nation’s history.
Haiti is a roiling, boiling mess. But in so many ways, it’s our mess, too. Haiti suffers in our hemisphere; and for South Florida, it’s our back yard.
Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, set a standard for the rest of the private sector on Tuesday by announcing that, in addition to its existing paid sick leave policy, it would provide up to two weeks of paid leave for employees who fall ill or are quarantined because of a confi…
President Trump has defended Saudi leader Mohammed bin Salman despite his displays of bad judgment or worse. If the crown prince wants to return the favor, now would be the time amid the panic in oil markets after a price war broke out between former cartel partners Russia and Saudi Arabia. …
Every day brings more news about the coronavirus. The daily news cycle around this is going to continue for a while, mainly because there is much scientists and health officials are still learning about the virus. The incessant drumbeat of information, though, is not a call to panic. Instead…
Many will welcome the United States-Taliban peace deal signed last weekend in Qatar. They see a war that has lasted nearly 19 years, taken the lives of nearly 3,600, wounded tens of thousands more, and cost trillions of dollars. They see a Taliban force that remains strong, with significant …
There is a crisis for girls in Jacksonville and the state.
The shocking revelations surrounding the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence accumulate by the day. But don’t blame your local organizations that must confront domestic violence. This is a strictly top-down scandal.
Coronavirus is a real global threat, and it’s arrived in the United States. It will almost certainly spread around the world and throughout the nation. But like the seasonal flu that infects people every year, this new disease will not wipe out the population.
Headlines and soundbites are teeming with information about coronavirus, and with good reason.
Katherine Johnson died Feb. 24 at the age of 101. She was the last of three mathematicians who helped send Americans into space at the dawn of the Space Age. Her colleagues, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, died in 2008 and 2005, respectively.
So-called “red flag” laws have been suggested by some as at least a partial answer to keeping firearms away from those who might use them to harm themselves or others. But experiences in Florida, which has had such a statute for nearly three years, indicate a variety of concerns about them.
Whether the United States can fend off serious short-term health damage from the threat of the COVID-19 virus remains to be seen. But the virus already has shown that long-term systemic problems with U.S. health care and economic policies need resolution.
News that the COVIDO-19 virus has hit our neighborhood — the first cases in Florida — was certainly not a surprise to be excited about.
In case you weren’t aware, there is a revolution, of sorts, going on in the world of television viewing.
What does the hard-won, long-overdue conviction of Harvey Weinstein demonstrate?
Ending the requirement would send government further into the darkness and out of the sunshine.
Why it matters: A women’s history museum in D.C. would give the depth and context to our nation’s history that paints a more complete picture of how women were involved in the formation and evolution of the country.
Highlands County is taking bids on disaster debris removal and recovery services for the county.
Only in America could this good news-bad news-worse news combo occur.
FFA was established in 1928 as Future Farmers of America. It was renamed the National FFA Organization in 1988 to reflect the rapid changes and greater employment diversity in agriculture. To most of us, it is known simply as FFA.
Veterans face many challenges when they return home, and some of the most common ones may surprise you: hearing loss and tinnitus. Noise exposure both on base and in combat zones is rampant from gunfire, aircraft, tanks, heavy equipment, roadside bombs and more.
When we left our son’s home in eastern North Carolina, the sun was shining. How nice to get an early start with a bright sky as our companion.
St. Catherine Catholic Church in Sebring will be starting a “Rainbows for All God’s Children” chapter that will begin March 22. The organization is an international, non-profit organization that fosters emotional healing among children grieving a loss from a life-altering crisis such as deat…
If Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred hated baseball and wanted to destroy it, he wouldn’t be acting any differently. America’s pastime needs new leadership, stat.
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles about the 75-year struggle for women’s suffrage.
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