August is traditionally a vacation month, and East Coast elites, following European tradition, are thick on the ground in the Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard (the Obamas' choice) and Nantucket.
What happened this week at the Florida Capitol obviously pales in comparison to Friday's historic hoisting of Old Glory in Cuba.
But U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's words, delivered 90 miles away from the Sunshine State Friday morning, were apropos to the Legislature's challenge about where to draw the lines for Florida's congressional districts.
Kerry, in Havana to reopen the U.S. embassy in Cuba for the first time in more than half a century, called the occasion an opportunity "for pushing aside old barriers and exploring new possibilities."
Mrs. Wade, my seventh-grade English teacher, had that special gift. Nearly six decades have slipped away since I sat in her classroom in Simsbury, Conn., and by now there isn't much that stands out about that year in school.
As the Obama administration, led by U.S. Sec. of State John Kerry, reopened the American embassy in Cuba on Friday, U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., pushed back, insisting normalization has hurt efforts against the Castor regime.
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This week, news emerged that Warren G. Harding had, in fact, fathered a child with Nan Britton, a far younger woman with whom he had an affair during his rise to power and during his presidency.
The Florida delegation was the heart of the opposition in the Republican caucus to U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, earlier this year and there could soon be another member from the Sunshine State against the Ohio congressman -- Gwen Graham opponent Mary Thomas.
With the Obama administration reopening the American embassy in Havana on Friday, two Republican presidential candidates, who worked up the Florida political ladder, expressed their opposition this week. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry represented the U.S. at the flag raising in Havana as the embassy was reopened.
The Florida Chamber of Commerce is expanding considerably, bringing on four new staffers.
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Running in the Republican primary to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., slammed the Obama administration’s Cuba policy even as U.S. Sec. of State John Kerry is scheduled to reopen the embassy in Havana on Friday.
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