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I was 15 years old when I wrote my first — and only — letter to the editor. The trigger for my burst of righteous teenage indignation: An Oct. 26, 1981 column by the Sentinel Star’s longtime political columnist Charley Reese titled “Leave Nancy alone.” In it, he defended the First Lady’s decision to purchase 200-something place settings of Lenox china for the White House. I don’t remember ...

Once upon a time, Florida’s open-government laws — crowned by constitutional guarantees against secrecy — were regarded as a national model. State leaders boasted of their openness and backed their play with decisive action: Former Gov. Charlie Crist (then a Republican) and former Attorney General Bob Butterworth (a Democrat) formed a strong partnership to defend public access. Lawmakers like ...

‘We certainly won’t be the secondary promotion at All In.’

In May, Gov. Ron DeSantis had this to say, after signing one of the toughest abortion bans in the nation: “One of the things I’m most proud of is that the state of Florida stands unequivocally in defense of the family, and in defense of our children. And we have done more to protect children than any state in the country.” What DeSantis knew — what most Florida families probably did not know — ...

The price of freedom is pathetically low in Florida, and the cost of injustice is much too high. The going rate is $50,000 for every year people languish in prison before being exonerated for crimes they did not commit. That’s less than $6 an hour, much less than the minimum wage. The necessity for this reality is a deeply flawed system where wrongful convictions are commonplace. There have ...