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This is Not a Normal Election Time Magazine last week released a stunning interview with the presumptive GOP nominee for president,...

Legislator Scorecards: Beaches Lawmakers Fall Short The Digital Democracy Project, a nonpartisan civic engagement effort that uses a...

Honoring a Great Florida Leader Reading about Bob Graham, his leadership, and his contributions to Florida as Governor, U. S. Senator,...

Working Families Need Tax Relief It's Tax Day, and for those of us who are not billionaires or major corporations, we have paid more than...

Eclipsing Public Education & Our Humanity Today's solar eclipse coincides with threats to two foundational tenets of democracy: public...

Abortion is on the Ballot The Florida Supreme Court yesterday ruled that a proposed constitutional amendment protecting access to...

Celebrating 14 Years of Obamacare The Affordable Care Act, familiarly known as Obamacare, celebrated its 14th anniversary last weekend....

2024 is No Rematch President Biden and his predecessor emerged from party primaries and caucuses last week with enough delegates to claim...

Biden: It's About Freedom and Democracy We admit to a nail-biting start to last week's State of the Union address --- influenced in no...

Celebrating History What better way to kick off Women's History Month than by celebrating the historic firsts in last year's city...

Believing is Seeing This week's headline comes from a recent piece by economist and NYT columnist Paul Krugman seeking to explain the...

Electing a President What makes a great president? While campaigns focus on policies and accomplishments, most presidential historians...

A Whole Lot to Love Amid the deluge of political doom and gloom, we found a whole lot to love this Valentine's Day week: President...

Black History Month at the Beach To celebrate the month, we offer a few highlights of Black history and notable trailblazers at the...

Immigration Battles The GOP-controlled U.S. House is poised to jettison a bipartisan Senate bill on immigration with funding for Ukraine...

Weakening Florida's Gun Laws The release of the Department of Justice report on the Uvalde school shooting is a sobering reminder of the...

8 Ways to Protect American Democracy Martin Luther King's historic efforts to extend and protect the voting rights of all Americans face...

What's Ahead: 2024 Legislative Session The 2024 Legislative Session opens tomorrow (Tuesday, January 9th). Lawmakers in the GOP-dominated...

Three Plus Reasons for Optimism in 2024 We're starting 2024 by channeling Simon Rosenbergand highlighting three reasons he cites for...

You Made A Difference! As we put a bow on 2023, let's celebrate the accomplishments and difference all our hard work made this year,...