#Column: Reflections of a mid-season replacement council member
This year of 2014 A.D. did not go exactly as I had originally planned.
When Ginger Snead suddenly and unexpectedly resigned her seat on City Council this past...
#Column: Blowing in the (Fan-Produced) Wind
And they wonder why people call it Flori-Duh.
Fan-gate, if you haven’t already heard, is the actual story about how the second debate between Florida’s gubernatorial (goober-natorial?) candidates...
#Column: What do tequila, government meetings, and Key deer have in common?
The catchphrase our local Tourist Development Council uses when speaking about numbers of tourists is “heads in beds.” I have always derived a bit of amusement from...
Where there’s smoke, there’s … nicotine testing?
Way back in May, I wrote a column about Monroe County’s decision to quit hiring tobacco users for county jobs effective January 1. That’s all forms of...
A chance to meet a musical legend and true inspiration
I got my first guitar for Christmas way back in our nation's bicentennial year. By the following May, I was performing on stage and had won my...
And Now, Stand Up and Make Some Noise – Heat haters really need to...
It’s hard to believe that it’s been four whole years since the “Big 3 Era” began for the Miami Heat. It has been a grand experiment in...
Not just for breakfast anymore – Slogans and mealtime meet in a harmonic convergence...
“It’s not just for breakfast any more!” The Florida Orange Juice Growers (or more likely, its ad agency) created this slogan to try and expand the orange...
Angels & Demons at the Inferno – It would take a Da Vinci to...
Dan Brown writes interesting books, filled with historical arcana and geographically accurate settings. And the critics hate his incredibly wealthy guts.
Most people know of Dan Brown through...
Is the U.S.A. becoming dumb and dumber?
Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts, a Pulitzer Prize winner (and remnant of what once was one of our great newspapers), once wrote a column called “Losing the...
Monroe County Commission going up in smoke over new rule – Smoke ‘em if...
What were they smoking?
Last week, the Monroe County Commission ruled that smokers have no place in the Monroe County workplace. The Commission voted unanimously to prohibit hiring...
