April 23, 2021
Editor's column
An Overdose of Bureaucracy
Florida's medical system displays a disconnect between care and customer service.
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Published on 3/29/2021
Learning and Earning
Fifteen years ago to the month in this space, I wrote about an apprenticeship program that ...
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Published on 3/1/2021
Reshaping Teaching
A decade ago, more than 5,000 graduate and undergraduate students were enrolled at the University of South Florida's College of Education.
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Published on 1/27/2021
Post-Votem
The GOP's effective Florida ground game was evident in the 2020 election.
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Published on 12/30/2020
Settin' the Woods on Fire
It didn't generate big headlines, but an important organization has relocated its headquarters in Tallahassee.
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Published on 11/25/2020
Less Flori-Duh, Please
Over the past 20 years, two of the biggest changes in Florida have involved the state's educational institutions.
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Published on 10/28/2020
The Limits of Home-Work
In the face of a Big Event, it seems to be an occupational hazard ... for some journalists to leap from the initial experience of the event to overblown, simplistic conclusions.
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Published on 9/25/2020
COVID - Some Perspective
Sifting and sorting through the data and the mess ... it's possible to say a few things that will hold up as we move forward.
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Published on 8/26/2020
What Now?
The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis echoes off Florida's own sorry racial history.
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Published on 7/27/2020
Echoes of history
Two ships, two struggles to do the right thing.
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Published on 6/25/2020
Dam(n)
The saga of the Rodman Dam will enter its 50th year in a few months.
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Published on 5/27/2020
Out of the bubble
The strategy of trying to moderate the spread of the coronavirus continues as we await the development of a vaccine or effective therapy.
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Published on 4/27/2020
Incomplete
I've been a history buff for some time, believing that the more you understand about the way things were, the more you start to understand about the way things are.
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Published on 3/25/2020
Breaking the Cycle
These are remarkable days in Florida. Our state is adding population at the rate of a city the size of Tampa each year. GDP has risen from $967 billion in 2017 to more than $1.1 trillion in 2019.
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Published on 2/26/2020
By the Numbers
Florida's economy is a lot more sophisticated than ag and tourism.
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Published on 1/27/2020
Forgotten
“If you live in Northwest Florida, you learn the cavalry isn't coming.”
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Published on 12/26/2019
A Better Way
For many Floridians in the 1950s and 1960s, the name Chattahoochee was synonymous with mental illness.
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Published on 11/26/2019
Heavy Lifting
In 2012, the city of Orlando decided to spend around $200 million to demolish and rebuild the old Citrus Bowl football stadium...
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Published on 10/25/2019
Teaching, Anyone?
Efforts to expand the teaching labor supply in Florida aren't working.
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Published on 9/25/2019
At Shortstop, W. Ockham
Theories strike out in trying to explain baseball's low attendance in Florida.
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Published on 8/26/2019
Safe Places
Flagler Health is working to make behavioral health services more available and more effective.
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Published on 7/26/2019
Safer
The Burr Foundation helps provide the words - and understanding - necessary to keep children safe.
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Published on 6/24/2019
Right Time, Right Train
Florida is getting express rail service without putting taxpayers on the hook.
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Published on 5/28/2019
Off the Street
Kudos to Broward County's business and government leaders for taking on homelessness
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Published on 4/26/2019
Up on the levies
2018 voting put to rest the notion that Florida is dominated by cranky anti-tax retirees
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Published on 3/27/2019
