Throughout the political landscape, our elected officials have called for support for the people of Cuba as they protest the tyrannical regime…
Whether or not you believe in vaccinations, whether or not you believe in the protective value of face masks, whether or not you believe the c…
Whether or not you believe in vaccinations, whether or not you believe in the protective value of face masks, whether or not you believe the c…
Let’s stop for just a moment of pure joy. A manatee, once near death from starvation, made her way back to the welcoming waters near Blue Spri…
Cheers: To the City of Key West and Monroe County for working out a deal to keep the Poinciana Assisted Care facility open. The agreement, as …
Florida’s environmental leaders pick their battles when it comes to the micro-organisms that threaten the state’s water bodies. Ann Shortelle,…
Gainesville has longstanding problems in areas such as housing and health care that were only worsened by the pandemic. A windfall of federal …
Last month, the Senate stopped action on the For the People Act, the wide-ranging set of voting reforms drafted by Democrats to make elections…
Two large protests happened recently, one 100 miles to our north, the other, 90 miles to our south. Both groups were protesting the same thing…
Hurricanes, swamps, heat, humidity, weeds, eroding beaches, mosquitoes, palmetto bugs, alligators, snakes and other funky critters.
Gov. Ron DeSantis claims to support intellectual freedom in higher education, while at the same time threatening to cut funding from college a…
More than a month after an armed SWAT team raided a local real estate office, questions remain unanswered about why the Gainesville Police Dep…
Florida’s environmental leaders pick their battles when it comes to the micro-organisms that threaten the state’s water bodies. Ann Shortelle,…
This region would be a much different place without Reid Hughes. Less green, certainly. Less beautiful. Less prepared to meet the infrastructu…
Many residents of Key West are asking the same question: When is enough enough?
Cheers: To the return of the magnificent fireworks display on the Fourth of July at Higgs Beach. After being canceled last year because of COV…
Sometimes we have to wonder about Gov. Ron DeSantis’ priorities. Recently, the governor took an action that was particularly baffling — issuin…
Mary McLeod Bethune accomplished many things during her time on this Earth. She founded a school that grew into Bethune-Cookman University. Sh…
The word “no” appears to be absent from the Suwannee River Water Management District’s vocabulary.
One of Florida’s most iconic creatures is under siege.
Cheers: To the U.S. Coast Guard, which has been extremely busy this season with numerous marine rescues, drug-smuggling arrests and an influx …
It is the nightmare scenario that no community ever wants to experience. The kind of thing we believe could never happen here.
The latest twist on the civil rights lawsuit against Harvard has the U.S. Supreme Court asking the Biden administration its thoughts on the matter.
Just recently, the Pulitzer Prize board gave a special citation to Darnella Frazier, who at age 17 thought to use her cellphone to shoot video…
We may act irritated when we’re teased about our home state, but most Floridians revel — even if just a bit — in the state’s reputation for we…
Cheers: To Monroe County for the approval of the MPOOP program, which mandates sewage pump-out facilities for every live-aboard marina in the …
Last year marked some exceptional American news reporting — riveting accounts of death and dying in hospital COVID-19 wards during the darkest…
America reclaimed some lost pride last week when President Joe Biden met in Geneva with Russian President Vladimir Putin — and did so without …