Staff opinion: The state should do more for victims
The state should allocate more funds for rape crisis centers.
Sexual attacks often change victims’ entire lives.
Staff opinion: Buffeting a move for fairer taxes
The richest will do anything they can to avoid contributing to the necessary good.
Buffeting a move for fairer taxes
Staff opinion: Musical chairs in the workforce
The simple theory: If you cut taxes on businesses, they’ll use that money to hire employees. But to do what?
Gov. Rick Scott is making the rounds in Florida touting a new job board regulation bill and a new budget he hopes will create jobs (see letters below), but he doesn’t mention the part where jobs are already guaranteed to be lost before his plans even start.
Strip-searching the Fourth Amendment
Someone could conceivably be strip searched after feeding the homeless or for violating a leash law.
Strip-searching the Fourth Amendment
Staff opinion: Being forced to buy insurance isn’t new
People are forced to pay for things they don’t want to pay for all the time — it’s a fact of life.
Insurance debates
Staff opinion: Justice for Trayvon Martin
If George Zimmerman walks away free, we’ll have the perfect blueprint for blaming the dead.
Moments before George Zimmerman shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a police dispatcher told him to stand his ground, but he said it in a different way.
Staff opinion: At war with our own future
When we sacrifice our future to fight a war with an uncertain conclusion, we imperil our way of life.
Country is at war with its own future
Staff opinion: Hacking and crimes of enlightenment
If keeping the government open and its doings accessible to the people is journalism, then Julian Assange is a journalist.
Hacking and crimes of enlightenment
Reassess school emergency protocol
Parents need to take an active role in our children’s safety at school.
Reassess school emergency protocol
Staff opinion: Starvation and the blame game
We need more focus on educating students and rewarding good teachers.
These bills would in effect allow parents and teachers, formerly allied in PTA programs, to tattle on each other to higher authorities rather than to communicate openly.
Staff opinion: Street dining won’t have any effect
Would rampaging drunkards stumble through Hannibal Square if we suddenly legalized European-café-style on-street dining?
On-street dining
Staff opinion: Love doesn’t stink for merchants
Consider plunking some of that dough into the local economy for Valentine's Day.
It’s important to remember that money can’t buy happiness and that love doesn’t cost a thing, but after so many years of economic doom and gloom, a sign of light is lovely.
Staff opinion: Elections aren’t a social death sentence
Local politics tends to alienate the people who had the courage to try to help lead us, and it shouldn’t.
We frequently find that our former public officials, and even those candidates who narrowly missed a seat on the dais, are disappearing from public view, sometimes forever.
Staff opinion: Incentives would benefit businesses
Incentives would benefit businesses
Absent strict specifics, that could leave the door wide open for conflicts of interest between elected officials and their friends.
Staff opinion: New Florida voter laws don’t have equal impact
One of the major changes Florida voters will see this year is their early voting time period shrunk from 14 to eight days.
New voter laws don’t have equal impact
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