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Florida Legislature should keep its nose out of teachers’ business | Letters Here’s what readers are saying in Wednesday’s letters to the editor.     Teachers from Pinellas County joined the public school education rally, "Take On Tallahassee," which was organized last year by the Florida Education Association in a call for improved support from Florida lawmakers of public education. [ SCOTT KEELER | Times ] Published Feb. 17 Union dues bill on Florida Senate fast track | Feb. 9 I have been teaching for five years in Hillsborough County. This past year has been the hard...

The McDonough County Voice In the months leading to Lincoln’s 212th birthday, on February 12, books about him have continued to appear, adding to the more than 16,000 titles that were already in print. Among the recent ones, for example, are “Abraham Lincoln in His Times” (2020), a 1,000-page biography, by David S. Reynolds, and “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington” (2020), by Ted Widmer—about his trip to the capital after winning the 1860 election, when states were seceding to form the Confederacy, national conflict was approaching, and he was being threatened. This...

February is Black History Month, it’s something that no American of any race, color, or creed should forget. African Americans, the decendants of slaves and slaves themselves fought for freedom that was only at best was in the promissory note of the Emancipation Proclamation. Those men, and women in the case of Harriett Tubman and Sojourner Truth, paved the way for freedom for African Americans and all others who benefited from what they fought for: women, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and other Hispanics, Asian Americans, and LGBTQ Americans. That promise being made then, must be...

The Secret History of Vaccines: How an African Slave Paved the Way for Immunization Vaccines have become a fundamental part of the healthcare industry. We have been using them for decades to prevent infection and ward off disease. In the age of the coronavirus, vaccines are considered our best shot at overcoming the pandemic. But where did scientists and doctors get the idea to vaccinate patients in the first place? Some vaccines work by infecting the person with a trace amount of the disease in question. Back in the early days of medicine, intentionally infecting someone with a virus was vir...

I am posting a section of my book Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory! Racism, Religion, Ideology and Politics in the Civil War Era and their Continuing Importance regarding the actions of Southern Democrat Secessionists who had already split their party during the 1860 election because I think it is very relevant today. Former and twice impeached President Donald Trump and his supporters attempted a coup by attacking Congress as it undertook its Constitutional duty to officially count the votes of the Electoral College.  The assault made under the direct order of the former President was brut...