Viewing 2016 in retrospect -- doing so is unpleasant, but less so than was living through it -- the year resembles a china shop after a visit from an especially maladroit bull. Because a law says "the state of California may not sell or display the Battle Flag of the Confederacy ... or any similar image," a painting of the 1864 Siege of Atlanta was banned from display at the Fresno County fair.
Looking back at the last three years, David Jolly can’t help but feel grateful.
Now that Amendment 2 on medical pot has been approved by Florida voters, the hard work of creating a fair but flexible regulatory scheme to oversee the implementation is critically important.
This column is a vehicle for a number of items in a bits-and-pieces, strictly opinion, sometimes irreverent format. Look for "Just Sayin'" to run once a week in this spot.
Come one, come all and bear witness to the suspense, intrigue and the bitter battle to become the Florida Democratic Party’s next chair. The party’s five candidates will descend upon Pompano Beach in for a forum discussing their qualifications before the party's election next month.
The jaw-dropping world of politics didn’t stop turning in Florida during 2016 -- in fact, its spin this year was slightly quicker (and a little bit crazier) than it had been in, well, pretty much any other year prior.
While the clock is ticking until President Barack Obama leaves the White House, U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla., is taking aim at him with a resolution “disapproving of President Obama and his administration’s refusal to veto the anti-Israel resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council.”
Education is always a revolving door in Florida and 2016 was another year of high-stakes drama in the Sunshine State's education stratosphere. From fierce courtroom battles to whopping fines for testing failures, this year several stories made big waves in headlines.
Here’s what happened this year in Florida education:
The first person to say it is unclear --- most seem to attribute the phrase to Hall of Fame baseball manager Casey Stengel --- but 2016 seemed to prove the old quote: "Never make predictions, especially about the future."
The journalist has an additional warning from the late, great Peter Jennings: "I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions."
