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Letters to the editor & Op-Ed
2022-2021
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October 24,
2022 12:40 pm
On
Election Day voters are being asked to
decide whether to abolish one of
Florida’s important ways citizens can
directly have their voices heard. If
passed by 60 percent of Florida’s
voters, Amendment 2 would abolish the
Constitution Revision Commission (CRC).
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October 15,
2022 08:47 am
While
some might be disappointed and angered
by the jury vote for life in prison for
Nikolas Cruz, the "Parkland Shooter,"
the Florida Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers says political leaders
and candidates should never shame jurors
for a verdict, penalty, or judgment.
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September
12, 2022 07:55 am
For the
residents of Columbia County, now would
be the time to reach out to the Lake
Shore Hospital Authority and encourage
them to move forward with either the
medical college proposal or something
like it
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August 18,
2022 11:30 am
I am
running for U.S. Congress to be on the
other side of the wave threatening our
democracy and republic. I am heeding the
warning of Benjamin Franklin.
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August 11,
2022 08:20 am
Florida
Governor Ron DeSantis's politically
motivated suspension of 13th Judicial
Circuit State Attorney Andrew Warren is
an unlawful and brutish attempt to force
duly elected prosecutors to bend to his
bidding.
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Posted
July 25, 2022 04:30 am
So,
I've begun a campaign to persuade the
Republican Executive Committees in the
Third Congressional District to get
control of the mess that Congresswoman
Kat Cammack has made of the Republican
Party's 2022 Congressional Primary and
to convince Cammack to debate me.
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Posted
July 13, 2022 07:00 am
A
statue of Mary McLeod Bethune has been
installed in National Statuary Hall,
replacing imagery of a racist
Confederate leader.
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Posted June
25, 2022 07:15 am
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the U.S.
Supreme Court upheld Mississippi’s ban on
all abortions after 15 weeks, overturning
the Court’s own 1973 landmark decision in Roe
v. Wade.
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Posted May
23, 2022 10:18 am
Florida
is struggling. The current wave of death
from drug overdoses has the numbers
climbing. Could Oregon's revolutionary
approach of decriminalization be a
solution for Florida?
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Posted May
5, 2022 09:45 pm
The
recently leaked U.S. Supreme Court
decision will set women's reproductive
rights and health back over half a
century.
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Posted
April 22, 2022 01:00 pm
TALLAHASSEE, FL – Yesterday, the
state legislature passed the
congressional map proposed by Governor
Ron DeSantis, reducing the
representation of communities of color.
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Posted
March 22, 2022 12:30 pm
Judge
Ketanji Brown Jackson: following in the
footsteps of John Adams, Abraham
Lincoln, and Thrugood Marshall
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Posted February
22, 2022 12:45 pm
With
ARPA billions still on the table,
legislative conference committees are
beginning to convene to negotiate the
final state budget for fiscal year
2022-23.
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Posted Feb.
15, 2022 12:45 pm
The
demand for mental health and substance
use disorder treatment has increased
considerably since the start of the
COVID-19 pandemic. It is crucial that
Florida lawmakers fully invest in mobile
response teams (MRTs).
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Posted November 19, 2021 01:45 pm
INFECTED
TALLAHASSEE — Who the hell does Joe Biden think he is,
trying to force people to get life-saving vaccines?
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Posted
June 19, 2021 08:45 am
The opinion
by the U.S. Supreme Court will preserve
coverage for 23 million Americans by ending
the lawsuit brought by Florida’s Attorney
General Ashley Moody and 17 other attorneys
general to gut the Affordable Care Act, or
ACA.
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Posted
April 28, 2021 09:10 am | Op-Ed
Recently, I realized my organization had
more gaps in communication than I would like
in how we handle employees who have left the
organization. I am sharing some of the
communication gaps, which we are now
closing.
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Posted
April 21, 2021 06:15 am | Op-Ed
We take a
broader look at this moment with Chuck
Wexler, the executive director of the Police
Executive Research Forum, a Washington,
D.C.-based think tank, and Janai Nelson, the
associate director counsel of the NAACP
Legal Defense and Education Fund.
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Posted
March 29, 2021 09:45 am | Op-Ed
According
to the American Medical Association (AMA),
the most important public health concern is
systemic racism. We should turn away
patients requesting early at-home treatment
for COVID ("not enough evidence of
effectiveness") and focus on uprooting the
racism that is assumed to lurk in the
subconscious of every white person and to
cause "health disparities."
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Posted
March 24, 2021 06:30 pm | Op-Ed
It is with great regret that I must
tenure my resignation. Coming to work for
the City of Lake City, my hometown for the
past fifty years, was a great honor for me.
I was hopeful that I could do well in this
position and was looking forward to the
challenges that lay ahead. I was not aware
of pitfalls that are associated with working
for the City of Lake City.
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Posted
March 22, 2021 03:35 pm | Op-Ed
The
American Rescue Plan provides a crucial
opportunity for the state to make short-term
investments in programs, services, and
infrastructure. How Florida’s leaders use
this flexible pot of state aid will
determine whether Floridians who are
struggling the most right now can recover
from the health crisis and recession.
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Posted March 6, 2020 05:25 am | Op-Ed
It is a truth universally acknowledged that
Republicans in possession of both legislative chambers
must mess with higher education in Florida.
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Posted February 25, 2021 01:20 pm | Op-Ed
Gov. Ron DeSantis and some other Florida Republicans
are worked up over a perceived threat to the freedom of
speech of politicians, but they’re ignoring a more
significant threat to the public’s right to speak.
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Posted January 12, 2021 11:59 am | Op-Ed
Many people are complaining about being
kicked off social media platforms, either
because of particular posts or because of a
series of posts. The question arises, do you
have a right not to be kicked off Facebook,
Twitter, etc?
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Special to the
Observer
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 The
Last Librarian
An updated twist on the
disappearance of printed books
April 14, 2019
As a retired
public library employee, when the “The Last
Librarian appeared on my Book Cub list I knew I
had to read it. And I wasn’t disappointed.
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 Oh,
Florida!
How America's Weirdest State
Influences the Rest of the Country
Posted February 11, 2018
A woman from the Keys is driving to see her
boyfriend and tells her ex-boyfriend (yep, ex)
who’s in the passenger seat, to take the wheel
so she can spruce up for the new guy, whipping
out a razor to shave what news accounts called
her “bikini” area. It did not end well…
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A Hesitant Adventurer’s Search for
Wonder in the Natural World
Posted
October 9, 2016
El Capulin Monarch Sanctuary, Mexico, 2007. Deep
in the Sierra Madre Mountains, millions of
monarch butterflies are arriving from North
America after their grueling annual migration.
They cover the mountaintop, the trees. Leigh Ann
Henion, there on a magazine assignment, is smack
dab in the middle of them. “They brushed against
my face and fell into my hair,” she said,
enchanted by the glorious sight.
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The inspiring story of the
woman who saved the Appalachian Trail
Posted May 15, 2016
Before Women’s
Lib, before today’s slick designer hiking gear,
and way before GPS, there was Grandma Gatewood.
This strong-minded mother of 11 with 23
grandkids knew who she was and what she wanted.
She wanted to walk the Appalachian Trail from
beginning to end. All by herself. And nothing
was going to stop her.
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Florida
Legislature’s Proposed Amendment 2 Should be
Rejected
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Floridians
Must Have a Say In State Allocation of
Federal ARPA Billions
How to Communicate When an Employee Leaves
Equity:
What Does Anti-Racism Mean for Your Medical
Care?
The Real Threat to Free Speech? Florida's Courts
Does
the First Amendment Apply to Social Media
Companies?
Grandma
Gatewood’s Walk