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Should Florida Bet Its Future on Expanded Gambling?
By Tom ZuccoAssociate Editor
They’re like a couple who dated forever and are finally talking about tying the knot.
Florida has been carrying on a relationship with gambling for more than a century. It began when railroad tycoon Henry Flagler opened a couple of illegal casinos along the state’s east coast in the 1880s, and exploded statewide [...]...Read More |
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New Casinos Would Be a Big Win for Florida, Taxpayers
By Ron Sachs
There is one surprising new certainty clearly emerging on Florida’s horizon: Casino gambling is coming to our Sunshine State to stay.
The near future will soon welcome casinos into Florida, enthusiastically, because the real benefits will win over taxpayers/voters, public officials and even many former opponents. The reasoning is simple math: more tourists, higher-paying [...]...Read More |
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New Florida Gambling a Bad Bet – and It’s Not Even Close
By James A. Smith Sr.
As legislators consider gambling expansion to balance Florida’s budget in tough times, they ought to keep in mind a simple mathematical formula: 3-1.
That’s not the odds that lawmakers will approve or vote down gambling expansion. Three-to-one is the ratio of government spending needed to address the social ills created by every [...]...Read More |
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Tax-Credit Scholarships for At-Risk Students Extend Civil Rights
By the Rev. H.K. Matthews
Last fall, I shared a stage inside a crowded Fort Lauderdale chapel with a young man who at one point in his life seemed destined for failure but rose to become valedictorian of his eighth-grade class. His name is Antonio Trigo, a student now at Miami Union Academy. As a child, [...]...Read More |
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Tweedledee to Tweedledum: From FCAT to End-of-Course Exams
By Marion Brady
Maybe it’s because just about everybody older than 5 has been to school. Whatever the explanation, most people have an education-reform theory, and many aren’t reluctant to share them. Controversies about educating probably generate more letters to editors, more friction at school board meetings, more editorializing, and more pontificating by politicians and syndicated [...]...Read More |
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The Last Week of ‘Free’ FloridaThinking
By John Koenig
Editor & Publisher
Free is not forever. At least, it can’t be at FloridaThinks.
While we’ve offered complete access to our articles, commentaries and polls at no charge these past couple of weeks, we cannot do so for much longer. Producing and delivering high-quality journalism is not a hobby for us, it’s how we earn [...]...Read More |
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