While the American Rescue Plan of 2021 ushered in a massive stimulus, it also disrupted the labor market for employers across the state. With an “economic impact payment” of $1,400 for individuals ($2,800 for a…
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Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: GRIDLOCK
The Boulder, Colo., shooting rampage once again highlighted the perennial battle over gun legislation, where one side of the aisle lines up in favor of legislation and the other side lines up in favor of…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: VOTING RIGHTS
Florida voters should armor up against assaults on voting rights, with GOP legislators attempting to level the playing field by restricting voting from segments not known to lean Republican. After the “Stop the Steal” narrative…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: TWO WOLVES
As I read that Republicans refused to condemn Texas Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, an active QAnon conspiracy theorist, yet retain as a GOP leader Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who voted to impeach Donald Trump, I…
Orlando Sentinel: Insurrection, inauguration threatened, then confirmed our morals as a country
The events that occurred in our nation’s capital on Jan. 6, during which an angry and violent mob of white nationalists and Trump supporters assaulted the Capitol inspired by the inflammatory rhetoric of a sitting president…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: THE TRUMP PARTY
Out of the debris of the failed Epiphany ’21 Coup could well be the unraveling of our two-party political system. Ten Republicans joined Democrats in the impeachment of Donald Trump on Jan. 13, led by…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: DEMOCRACY WON AGAIN
For the second time since November’s historical vote count, American democracy has won again. What occurred Wednesday, when our Capitol was overrun by a violent and seditious mob stoked to riot by a sitting president,…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: CURIOUS RESIGNATION
Ron Filipkowski, a lifelong Republican and former state and federal prosecutor, resigned from his state-appointed position on a panel which picks judges for which he was nominated by Gov. Ron DeSantis, after Filipkowski reviewed the…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: TALE OF THREE LEADERS
On the federal level, President Trump not only threw his hands up and relinquished responsibility for handling COVID-19, but he actually called it a “Democrat-led hoax.” On the state level, Gov. Ron DeSantis refused to…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: SORE LOSER IN CHIEF
Trailing by 5.5 million popular votes and 70 electoral votes, repudiation of Donald Trump would be apparent, at least under ordinary times. But these are not ordinary times and Trump is not like most presidents….