Opinion Archive

The government shutdown ended Monday when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) promised to take up an immigration bill that would protect an estimated 800,000 Dreamers from deportation under an open amendment process, if the Democrats would agree to end the shutdown. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y) said that pledge was enough for his caucus to accept a three-week government funding bill, which passed on a vote of 81-18.

Good science exists after full and rigorous peer review. When science is subverted by politics it is no longer science but science fiction. The global warming or climate change claims are attributed to one variable and has excluded the effect of the sun and other variables. Of course there is climate change because the climate is driven by many variables.

We live in a world where all too often star athletes who don’t get their way handle that moment of being humbled in the worst way possible.

We have an awesome Mind, Body, Spirit insert this week. We should have this many articles on health every week. We have a “Healthy Living” section each week and it is full of great information usually from local practitioners and community partners that want our readers to know how to get and stay healthy.

Tuesday’s Holley Navarre Water System board election has reaffirmed something – there may be hope for a drowning system. No – they are not drowning financially, in fact, they are rich by any nonprofit’s standards. But they have been drowning themselves in the proverbial testosterone war that dogs usually lift their leg for.

The Florida House recently passed a bill that would ban the use of cameras at traffic lights in the state beginning in July 2021. The legislation now heads to the Florida Senate. I totally disagree with the 83-18 decision. I think additional cameras are needed at busy intersections throughout the state, and they should be implemented July 4, 2018. That would save hundreds of lives annually.

At the beginning our nation was formed as 13 independent states with a limited sovereignty from the federal government outlined and guided by the words of our Constitution of which each state ratified. This limited state sovereignty is also guided by the limitations placed on the federal government by the words of the same Constitution that limits the type and thus amount of sovereignty the States were willing to give away in forming our federal government to form the United States.

Indiana Republican Milo Smith forgot to ask Santa for a new brain. He needs one because his latest legislation idea is about as idiotic as they come.

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If you’ve ever wondered how seriously state legislators value your constitutional right to open government, you can thank the Florida Society of News Editors for bringing it out in the sunshine.