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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
Lighthouse Point vacation rental

Vacation Rental Giant on Winning Streak in Florida Courts

By JOHN HAUGHEY THE CENTER SQUARE
November 1, 2019 - 6:00am

Only You

By Henry Payne
November 1, 2019 - 6:00am

Columns

Guest Column
Low Income South Floridians Need Permanent, Free Tax Preparing Services
By Carlos Curbelo
This week, U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., South Florida’s only Member on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee and the sponsor of the “VITA Permanence Act," highlighted the need for permanent, free tax preparing services for low income South Floridians in a Subcommittee on Oversight. Curbelo highlighted the legislation’s bipartisan support within the House of Representatives, and emphasized how free tax preparing services help vulnerable populations receive highly-accurate guidance to ensure the largest possible tax returns.
Trump's New Immigration Proposal Is Quintessentially Presidential
By Marc A. Thiessen
President Trump once boasted that his base was so loyal that he "could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters." Now he's putting that claim to the test with his immigration proposal. In his State of the Union address Tuesday, Trump offered to support not just legal status, but a path to citizenship for nearly 2 million illegal immigrants -- the "Dreamers" who were brought to the United States as children through no fault of their own -- if Democrats would agree to fund his border wall and limit chain migration.
Florida Forever and Often-Maligned Florida Agriculture: Florida's Twin Weapons against Development
By Nancy Smith
Florida Forever finally found its land champion in Senate Appropriations Chairman Rob Bradley.  
Can Trump Sustain Newfound Aura of Gravitas?
By Kathleen Parker
It was a good speech. Calm down. I said good. Despite talking for an hour and 20 minutes, the longest speech since Bill Clinton's much-mocked 2000 stem-winder, Donald Trump's first State of the Union address did exactly what it needed to do: nothing.
Guest Column
It’s Time to Talk About Moving Florida’s Capital
By Bill Hager
I recently introduced legislation in the Florida House to start the process of moving the Capital to better serve Floridians - for the next 500 years.  Tallahassee was the right place for Florida’s Capital 150 years ago, when the state’s center was between Pensacola and Jacksonville. That criteria (the state’s center) still applies today. 
Guest Column
Vacation Rentals Support Tourism
By Jennifer Frankenstein-Harris
I recently traveled to Tallahassee to represent the Florida Vacation Rental Management Association (FL VRMA), and an industry which has become a vital part of Florida’s tourism economy, at Tourism Day at the Capitol. There I had the opportunity to listen to an encouraging speech given by Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association (FRLA) President and CEO Carol Dover. One that we would like to hold her to.
Matt Gaetz and CNN’s Chris Cuomo FBI Interview Lapses Into Odd Theistic Syntax Debate
By Brad Slager
Matt Gaetz and Chris Cuomo
Washington D.C. has been slightly abuzz over the missing FBI texts story. Reportedly, upwards of 50,000 text messages mandated to be stored were supposedly missing. (They have since been “located.”) To discuss the Strzok/Page controversy, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz sat in with CNN’s Chris Cuomo. After some sober and solid points, the interview took on a surreal tone.
When Protectionism Is Rampant, No Bad Deed Goes Unrewarded
By George Will
Like Horatius at the bridge, or the boy who stood on the burning deck whence all but he had fled, or the Dutch boy who saved the city by putting his finger in the dike -- pick your analogous heroism -- the Trump administration last week acted to stanch the flood of foreign-made washing machines that are being imported because Americans want them.
Guest Column
Don’t Weaken Safety Regs for Offshore Oil Rigs
By U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan
In a formal objection letter sent on Thursday to the U.S. Interior Department, U.S. Rep.
Some Policy Dentistry Could Combat Truth Decay
By George Will
It cannot be a sign of social health that the number of tweets per day worldwide exploded from 5,000 in 2007 to 500 million six years later. And this might be related, by a few degrees of separation, to the fact that whereas in the 1992 presidential election more than one-third of America's 3,113 counties or their equivalents had a single-digit margin of victory, in the 2016 presidential election, fewer than 10 percent did. And to the fact that in 2016, 1,196 counties -- about 2.5 times the average over the preceding 20 years -- were decided by margins larger than 50 percent.
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