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Every Golden Globes Best Drama Winner Since 1952 By Joseph Bien-Kahn, Stacker News On 3/1/21 at 8:00 PM EST This years Golden Globes were unlike any other in its storied history, which began in 1944 when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association gathered at the studios of Twentieth Century-Fox to celebrate the filmmaking achievements of 1943. Seventy-plus years later, the Golden Globes Awards show is the first to kick off the awards calendar, and after being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemi...

Yet another noteworthy occasion occurred on this date 15 years ago. On Feb. 14, 2006, New College of Florida hosted a lively public forum. The hot topic: homelessness. The event responded to the National Coalition for the Homeless’ designation of Sarasota as America’s “meanest city.” Sarasota was tagged after the City Commission passed an ordinance authorizing police to arrest homeless people for camping in outdoor public spaces.  Some proponents of the local law simply wanted to sweep...

The pejorative phrase described a state that conducted an extraordinarily close 2000 presidential election. In the process Florida placed “hanging chads” in the lexicon, introduced Sarasota’s own Katherine Harris – then the secretary of state – to America and generated controversies settled by the U.S. Supreme Court. Sarasota County attracted more negative attention to the state in 2006. Touch-screen computer problems and “undervote” oddities cast a shadow on Republican Vern B...

Tip or no holiday tip? Etiquette for letter carriers, dog walkers, and other VIPs Letter carrier Tom Tryon visits a home in Croydon on December 4, 2018. DAVID MAIALETTI / Staff Photographer Editor’s note: This article was published in 2018. If you decide to give tips in person, you should take precautions against contracting COVID-19. Tom Beggs’ holiday tips have run the gamut. A garbage collector in the King of Prussia area for the last decade, Beggs has received winter gloves, swea...

Newly elected local officials tend to overestimate their ability to make big changes in government and underestimate their potential to create a bigger mess. Just look at the three newbies on the Manatee County Commission who, along with an incumbent commissioner, formed a Gang of Four that engaged in a failed effort to abruptly – and without cause – fire the county administrator. The plot was dumb and became dumber as the backstory was revealed. It didn’t achieve its goal and generated...