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Editor's Choice
Thought-provoking articles and opinions from other publications. |
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More of the Rich Run as Populist Outsiders
The New York Times, July 23
Editorial: Focus session on green energy bills
Fort Myers News-Press, July 20
Don't expect much from this special session
South Florida Sun-Sentinel, July 20
Once a clear favorite, McCollum now chasing Scott in GOP gubernatorial race
St Pete Times, Sunday, July 18, 2010
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FloridaThinks No More
By John Koenig -- FloridaThinks was a success in all areas except revenues. But financial reality demands that we cease publication....Read More |
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FloridaThinks Is Taking a Break
Everybody needs a vacation from time to time, including the staff of FloridaThinks. So we’re going to take a break and let events in Florida unfold without comment from us for a while....Read More |
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Unplugging: So Simple a Cavewoman Could Do It
By Diane Laney Fitzpatrick - I took a rare, long vacation overseas and decided to unplug. And by unplug, I don’t mean that I waited until I got over there to realize that the Italians and the French don’t have normal electrical sockets. (They don't, by the way, but I arrived prepared with six adapters and two converters, yet still couldn’t get my daughter’s hair straightener to work, so I had to buy a French hair straightener. The French charge way too much for straight hair.) No, by unplug I mean I decided to go without TV, phone, texting, Facebooking, Tweeting and other modern means of communication....Read More |
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Back to the Future for a Better Way of Life?
By Marion Brady -- There’s much that our colonial villages with their combined living and working spaces had going for them. Reviving some of their best features could lead to a better economy, environment and lifestyle....Read More |
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Reforming Public Education from the Outside
By David R. Colburn and Brian Dassler -- Many of America’s super wealthy are focusing their philanthropic endeavors on reforming public education in some of the poorest communities in the nation by offering parents and children alternatives to traditional public schools....Read More |
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Lebron James and South Florida’s HIV Challenge
By Chuck Hobbs - While I wish Lebron James much success in his new endeavor, an earlier headline in the week was to me far more important globally and within the city he will soon call home: U.S. government scientists have discovered three strong antibodies that neutralize HIV strains. Scientists believe that they are closer to a possible vaccine than ever before. In Florida, for over two decades Miami-Dade County has regularly been at or near the top of charts chronicling those living with HIV or dying from AIDS....Read More |
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Put Oil Drilling Ban in Florida Constitution
Florida Wildlife Federation's Manley Fuller advocates placing a constitutional amendment before voters this fall that would prohibit oil drilling in Florida's coastal waters. For this to occur, the Florida Legislature in special session needs to act before Aug. 3....Read More |
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Miami-Dade Ahead of the Curve on Reducing Greenhouse Gases?
By Martha Musgrove -- Miami-Dade County has found cost savings while reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. As Congress dithers on an energy policy, local government is where the action is to deal successfully with climate change. But localities such as Miami-Dade need support from federal government....Read More |
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Thank God for South Carolina
By David R. Colburn - Can Floridians really thump our chests and point to South Carolina as the real national embarrassment? Sure South Carolina might have U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene, who stands accused of showing pornography to a University of South Carolina student, but we have Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott....Read More |
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