Cheers: To Key West’s fire rescue team, which quickly and effectively transferred an ill cruise ship passenger from the vessel to the hospital…
It’s too soon to declare mission accomplished, and the economy needs more time to recover. But the nation is approaching the winter holiday se…
It’s too soon to declare mission accomplished, and the economy needs more time to recover. But the nation is approaching the winter holiday se…
In a serious state governed by serious people, a couple of looming crises — like an unsustainable housing insurance market and dangerously und…
Now that the Sarasota County school system has downgraded its districtwide mask-wearing policy from “required” to “optional” — and may soon re…
Safety improvements should have been made to campus-area roads long before the deaths of two University of Florida students shocked and sadden…
Cheers: To the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, whose staff not only does its best to protect and serve our residents and citizens, but also ke…
In the early days of the campaign to raise Florida’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, the predictions were dire: This move would send small busine…
Over the past few weeks there has been exhaustive national — in fact, global — coverage of the initial disappearance of North Port resident Ga…
When Gov. Ron DeSantis announced recently that the state would once again attempt to go after social-media giant Facebook, you could hear the …
Cheers: To former Key West City Commissioner Bill Verge for his suggestion as part of the city’s Charter and District Boundary Review Committe…
Gov. Ron DeSantis is doubling down on his disastrous approach to COVID-19, selecting a surgeon general for Florida who has downplayed the effe…
For many Haitians, the United States is the end of the rainbow. They hear this from childhood and focus their dreams on tales of a better life…
If you’ve been paying attention to local, state and national environmental news, you can’t help but be alarmed. With every passing year, threa…
Gov. Ron DeSantis pleased many when he announced he would end the Florida Standards Assessments, the year-end tests that have been the bane of…
Cheers: To least terns and the Truman Waterfront ballfield construction crew for accomodating each other. Least terns choose to lay eggs and r…
It’s a distinction no state should want: Florida stands alone this school year by refusing to take federal money to help feed 2.1 million low-…
The University of Florida’s top-five national ranking is a bright spot for our city and state at a time when so much of the news is negative.
Even Floridians who may not subscribe to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ politics have a serious and sincere interest in the governor being successful when…
Remember Reaganomics? There was a time when Republicans, particularly conservatives, used to preach about how free markets were critical to cr…
For 60 years, we have watched launches slip the bounds of earthly gravity and hurtle into space. And we have dreamed of one day being among th…
It’s good to see that not every lawmaker has surrendered to the relentless, decades-long, bipartisan legislative assault on open government in…
In Florida, the rate of children infected with COVID is soaring, and more than half the students now attend school in districts where face cov…
Getting accurate local information about COVID-19 is literally a matter of life and death.
Gainesville needs to get a grip on gun violence before it become a bigger problem in our community.
It has been 20 years since terrorists hijacked commercial airlines and caused not just havoc, but those catastrophic events threatened the ver…
Cheers: To Key West Chief Building Official Raj Ramsingh for his balanced approach to the concerns at the Santa Clara Condominiums. While putt…
Louisiana Highway 1 is a winding two-lane highway that passes through New Orleans and ends at the state’s southernmost harbor, Port Fourchon. …