Originally appeared in The Orlando Sentinel, Jan. 8, 2019. Dr. Freud: Come in, come in, Mr. and Mrs. Party. Marriage counseling is a significant step. I hope I can help. Rep: It’s nice to meet you Dr. Freud. My name is Republican, but my friends call me Rep, and this is my wife, Democrat. Demi: […]
Read More →First published in The Orlando Sentinel, Oct. 22, 2018 Republicans believe that private business – free enterprise – will solve the nation’s problems, providing an ultra-small government backs off and doesn’t muck it up. Republicans are wrong. Democrats believe that private business has a corruptness about it, and a large government – a “we the […]
Read More →Originally published in The Orlando Sentinel, Oct. 23 2017 If children are the future, public education nourishes hope. It’s the great social equalizer, because it identifies and rewards each child’s potential and ambition. Or it was circa 1970. Today, Florida’s schools destroy hope teacher by teacher. Their recent loss: my 30-year-old daughter. Most Americans (75 […]
Read More →Originally published in The Orlando Sentinel, Sept. 29, 2017. How awful was Hurricane Irma? The answer depends on more than the debris in your yard. It also depends on the debris in your head. Was the power off “for only three days,” or was it “unfathomable that Duke Energy made us wait when I could […]
Read More →My daughter danced at Pulse nightclub in Orlando a number of times before a crazed gunman opened fire last year. She called each local friend as we waited for word on the victims, hoping each would just pick up, pick up, pick up. We waited for the list of the dead after it was over. […]
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