When it formed in Tallahassee two and a half years ago, Citizens for Responsible Spending's sole goal was to urge Tallahassee city commissioners to cut expenses before raising property taxes and to shed sunshine on a city budget process that was anything but transparent.
Tallahassee Can Wait No Longer to Fire City Manager Rick Fernandez
Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Reform: The Drug Trafficker’s Relief Act
We’ve all heard of fake news. Well, what about news that’s deceiving?
Florida Should Apply STATEWIDE the Key Lessons Hurricane Hermine Taught Us
Labor Day a year ago, Hurricane Hermine ravaged Tallahassee as it swept through the Big Bend part of Florida.
Letter to the Editor: Push Congress Members to Pass Tax Reform Now
As the congressional “August recess” wraps up and members of Congress get ready to head back to Washington next week, this is the last chance tell your U.S. representative and senator face-to-face what Congress ought to get done this year.
A Conservative Democrat Handicaps the Dem Gubernatorial Primary
The Florida Democratic Party is faced with a huge dilemma. It hasn’t won the governor’s mansion in a generation and unless Democrats nominate the right person, they won’t have a chance at winning back the most coveted position in Florida government.
Alt-Left Bought and Paid For by Mainstream Media
Enough already.
Moderate-Republican elected officials, calm down and take a lude.
Mainstream Media, you’ve run the storyline into the ground now for four days.
An Open Letter to the Constitution Revision Commission
Every 20 years the Florida Constitution requires the appointment of a Constitution Revision Commission.
Andrew Gillum Is a Dead Man Walking
I read Leslie Wimes' column Friday about Andrew Gillum, and I'm not one bit surprised she thinks Gillum walks on water, same as she thinks Obama did.
John Morgan Could Have Authorized Smoking of Medical Marijuana, but ...
Ever since the Special Session ended, the mainstream media in Florida have been breathlessly reporting that John Morgan, the Orlando attorney, who financially spearheaded both amendment drives to install medical marijuana in our state Constitution, is going to sue the state because the Legislature didn’t allow the smoking of marijuana.
Offshore Energy Exploration Is Safe, Has Been Going on for 81 Years
As you know, Florida is a state that continues to grow exponentially year after year. In fact, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2016 annual report, our population increases by 1 percent annually, bringing an additional one million people to Florida every five years. We are fortunate that our great state continues to flourish, however we will need to continue to invest in things like energy infrastructure if we want to continue to live, play and work in the sunshine state.