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David Willson Special to the Daily News On Tuesday, former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of all three counts brought against him by the Minnesota attorney general for strangling George Floyd to death with a knee on his neck. There were cheers outside the courthouse, bittersweet tears among the victim’s family and a palpable sense of relief almost everywhere else. America had steeled itself for the all-too-likely alternative and more strife on its city streets. Such verdicts are seldom handed down against police officers who kill in the line of duty. They seldom face...

David Willson Special to the Daily News I was reading “Lock In,” a novel by John Scalzi, when this passage caught my eye:  “When everyone you know has more money than they know what to do with, money stops being a useful transactional tool. So instead you offer favors. Deals. Quid pro quo. Things that involve personal involvement rather than money. Because when you’re that rich, your personal time is your limiting factor.” Many of my cartoons for Palm Beach Daily News have touched on various aspects of the Palm Beach money culture, but Scalzi nailed it in a paragraph.

David Willson Special to the Daily News The pandemic year of 2020 has proven to be a banner year for Palm Beach real estate. No doubt you’ve noticed the many eye-popping real estate transactions in the Palm Beach Daily News over the last few weeks. Our real estate editor, Darrell Hofheinz, has been busier than the proverbial one-armed paper hanger. This deluge of deals brings to mind a Palm Beach Daily News editorial cartoon that was published on June 24, 2007, during an earlier island real estate boom. Like today, it was a tale of two economies. The disparity then was caused by the mortgag...

David Willson Special to the Daily News It was a week with Trump-related demolition stories peppering the news — both the helipad at Mar-a-Lago and the former Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino building in Atlantic City. No, I’m not going to write about the ex-president today. But the conjoined subjects of demolition and casinos did a make an odd connection with my memory of another very unusual Palm Beach story. My June 26, 2005, Palm Beach Daily News cartoon was about a very large banyan tree at The Society of the Four Arts that was disassembled, put on a caravan of flatbed trucks and carted ou...

This on-again off-again Trump Plaza naming story has been revisiting our local front pages for decades.