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After 10 Glorious Years, Sunshine State News and I Are Passing the Baton

You probably can't imagine how much fun I've had at Sunshine State News over the last 10 years. I don't think anybody could. 

By Nancy Smith
November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
The Ribault Monument

Florida Continues to Flow Down History's River

By Kevin Derby
November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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Vacation Rental Giant on Winning Streak in Florida Courts

By JOHN HAUGHEY THE CENTER SQUARE
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Only You

By Henry Payne
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Columns

Guest Column
China Should Accept Hague Ruling on South China Sea
By Marco Rubio
From his perches on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on Monday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., weighed in on the decision by an international tribunal in The Hague regarding China’s claims in the South China Sea:
Guest Column
Statement by Florida Senator Maria Sachs
By Maria Sachs
(State Senator Maria Sachs today released the following statement. It is accompanied by copies of a notarized affidavit dated Jan.
The FedEx Flub: Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is Joe Garcia
By Nancy Smith
In case you haven't noticed, hypocrisy out there in Campaign Land keeps piling up and gets deeper the closer we get to actual voting. The latest candidate wielding a shovel and adding to the mess?
Is Anemic Growth the New Normal?
By George Will
America's economy has now slouched into the eighth year of a recovery that demonstrates how much we have defined recovery down.
Guest Column
Letter to Our U.S. Senators: The Endangered Species Act Defies Common Sense
By Peter Antonacci
(Editor's Note: The following letter addressed to U.S. Sens. Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio was written by a frustrated and emboldened executive director of the South Florida Water Management District determined to defy a "myopic" federal edict to flow more water into Lake Okeechobee on behalf of a rigid Endangered Species Act. The letter below went out Friday.)
Guest Column
Condemning the War On Police and Calling for National Conference
By Jim Gilmore
Yesterday’s attack on the police in Dallas resulted in the deaths of five officers and the wounding of seven more policemen.
Guest Column
Ahead Of Warsaw Summit, NATO Alliance Remains Important
By Marco Rubio
As leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) gather in Warsaw today, the NATO alliance is more essential than ever to U.S. and transatlantic security.
10 Snail Kite Nests Mean 20 Billion More Gallons of Water for Algae-Plagued Estuaries
By Nancy Smith
Everglade snail kite
Because 10 endangered snail kites are nesting in the Kissimmee River floodplain, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has ordered a halt to the vital storage of 1.4 feet of river water north of Lake Okeechobee. 
The Sobering Evidence of Social Science
By George Will
The report was so "seismic" -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan's word -- that Lyndon Johnson's administration released it on the Fourth of July weekend, 1966, hoping it would not be noticed. But the Coleman report did disturb various dogmatic slumbers and vested interests. And 50 years on, it is pertinent to today's political debates about class and social mobility. So, let us now praise an insufficiently famous man, sociologist James Coleman, author of the study "Equality of Educational Opportunity."
Rick Scott Will Propose 50/50 Septic-to-Sewer Match in His Next Budget
By Nancy Smith
Rick Scott and algae in Stuart
Nobody is doing more for the Everglades or the problems in the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee estuaries than Gov. Rick Scott -- and frankly, nobody gets less credit for it from the people who will benefit most. And the governor announced more Wednesday: his intention to propose additional funding in his 2017-2018 budget to help local communities deal with the fetid, algae-choked bodies of water in Martin, St. Lucie and Lee counties on a more personal basis.
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