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Perhaps the heat has affected their brains, but a lot of politicians seems to have forgotten climate change, writes columnist Pat Beall.

"Passing a law banning customers from eating a burger that they cannot buy from supermarkets that cannot sell the burgers because there is not yet an industry to make the burgers is peak Florida meathead," writes columnist Pat Beall.

Columnist Pat Beall notes that, whether delivering ultimatums or showering their sweethearts with gifts, developers woo city and county governments in different ways.

Columnist Pat Beall writes that doctors arrested for and even convicted of fraudulently prescribing opioids keep their licenses years afterward, even after going to prison.

Fane Lozman has fought Riviera Beach all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won -- twice. Those were landmark victories for free speech and houseboat ownership, columnist Pat Beall writes, but in Lozman's latest battle, he's trying to dredge part of Lake Worth Lagoon to build homes.