It is a staple in the newspaper business – especially left-wing newspapers – to exhort people to vote at every election.
Conservatives, however, are more interested in quality than quantity.
That is, they are more interested in having fair elections than in driving everyone to the polls – including...
It will be tough sledding, but the Florida Legislature needs to continue trying to rein in the unsustainable rise in public pensions and benefits.
Fortunately, the state has done a good job in recent years. Local governments, not so much.
Pew Center on the States said in a 2007 study: “Florida is a...
No matter how the Trayvon Martin case turns out in the courts, it has left a permanent stain on the media, which hardly needed any more blemishes.
George Zimmerman was tried, convicted and figuratively executed by the media before it was even determined whether a crime had occurred.
Pundits piled on...
Finally, there is reason to get excited about rail travel in Florida.
This comes after years of claims that taxpayers must pay for trains because the private sector -- meanies who only think about profits and not important things liberals want like windmills and bike trails -- would never run passenger trains.
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Discussions about the efficacy and needs of the public schools in Florida tend to become rancorous.
Those who see them as the great bulwark of democracy believe that spending ever-increasing amounts of money will solve whatever problems they may have.
Others believe the public schools do too little...
Gov. Rick Scott is showing he means business.
The 2012 Legislature produced a lean $69 billion budget and Scott pared it down even more by lopping off more than $600 million in “turkeys” -- pork-barrel projects the state did not need to fund.
This produced the usual complaints but there is no reason...
A Florida man has made the news this week, big time.
Tim Tebow, already a legend at the University of Florida, is leaving Denver's National Football League team, where he had won over detractors by his inspirational play, to go to the New York Jets.
In Jacksonville, fans are distraught at the news,...
We are hearing in Florida the same thing we hear nationally – a plea for more courteous discourse in the civic arena.
Wouldn’t that be nice?
This theme, of course, is a staple of the liberal camp. Being sophisticated cosmopolites and intellectuals, they are offended easily, and constantly are...
Efforts to reform education in Florida faced dogged opposition in the Florida Legislature but recorded some notable success nonetheless.
The well-heeled teachers union and other special interests from the education establishment, which reformers refer to as The Blob, managed to narrowly block passage of one important piece of legislation – the “parent trigger” bill.
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An article in the Tampa Tribune last week tied what it said was a lack of economic growth to an alleged lack of infrastructure and low income levels in the area.
While it is a welcome sight to see an appreciation of economic growth in the media, the connections seem a bit tenuous.
First is the matter...
