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As the 2012 Major League Baseball season opens, the game appears to be in good shape. The last eight seasons have produced the eight highest attendance totals in major league history despite the economic downturn, which began in 2008. Forbes magazine reported that because of local television contracts the average value of 30 clubs increased 16 percent over the winter and reached a record $605 million per team. And yet, despite the financial records, there is plenty of evidence that, while financially successful, baseball is no longer America's favorite sport.
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An important win for business and job seekers in the recent legislative session was the passage of Gov. Rick Scott's Job Creation and Economic Growth Agenda, which includes provisions that enhance transparency, accountability and accessibility of the state's publicly funded workforce system.
Recent endorsements by Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan have solidified Mitt Romney's status as the presumptive Republican nominee. They also have systemically highlighted Romney's limits as a candidate.
As of Sunday, the United States has the highest corporate tax rate of any country in the world. Given the shaky state of our economy, it's not worth celebrating.
I recently met Daniela and Dayanna Pelaez, two exceptional young Floridians from Miami whose struggles to gain citizenship The Miami Herald has documented well.
It was tragic enough that the man killed with five shots of a .380-caliber handgun was a police officer, St. Petersburg's David S. Crawford.
There has been a lot of talk about Mitt Romney's message, whether it is too moderate for the Republican primary and whether he can make it appealing to swing voters in general election states. But what is President Barack Obama's message, and whom will it reach?
As the people of Hamilton County in North Florida approach the April 10 decision on whether to allow slot machines at Hamilton Downs Jai Alai and Poker, they should know that the referendum's backers have deliberately misled them on the number of promised jobs, as well as the highly questionable behind-the-scenes manipulation on which the referendum is based.
Each April, we commemorate Autism Awareness Month.
Is there any hope for getting debt and government overspending under control in the nation's capital? With a $15.5 trillion national debt and a $1.2 trillion federal deficit projected for this year, America's future certainly seems dark and cloudy.
When you are sitting in traffic on your way to work, do you ever say to yourself, "Can't someone find a way to ease this pain just a little bit? Can't our county do something about this backup every morning?"
As Florida's universities brace for the impact of new budget cuts, the questions that consume us are urgent and practical: How many STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) graduates do we turn out? How quickly do they move through the "pipeline"? Do they get high-paying jobs?
"I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it."
The first time Rep. Paul Ryan presented his budget, it was supposed to be fatal for the GOP. Ryan, after all, was not only touching the entitlement third rail but licking it. Even to some ideological allies, it seemed like a dangerous dare.
Not one like that room.
At nearly midnight on the last day of the legislative session, Florida senators were told we would begin an extraordinary session the following week for a second attempt at drawing new political districts. Earlier that day, the Florida Supreme Court ruled, 5-2, that our first attempt failed to meet the standards of the Fair Districts Amendment. The House maps, by contrast, passed the court's review.
Salt is cheap, easily available and essential for the function of every single cell in the body. However, this sparkling white crystal sparked a lot of controversy in the medical field for many years.
What's the difference between broccoli and health insurance?
There is an old saying: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
Green jobs or, as our president calls them, the "jobs of the future" have been notoriously tough to define and count. The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently did it, though, and now it is the results that are notorious.
Everyone has been talking about mothers having the talk with their sons. But I haven't heard enough about us — fathers, black men — having that conversation with our sons.
When a 1942 Supreme Court decision that most people never heard of makes the front page of The New York Times in 2012, you know that something unusual is going on.
Right now, there isn't enough known about the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a black, by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old part-Hispanic, during his neighborhood watch tour in an Orlando suburb. If evidence emerges that Zimmerman's actions were not justified, he should be prosecuted and punished; however, there's a larger issue that few people understand or have the courage to acknowledge, namely that black and young has become synonymous with crime and, hence, suspicion. To make that connection does not make one a racist. Let's look at it.
Barack Obama's statement that the death of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy that cries out for a more thorough investigation was the right and necessary thing to say.
While policy considerations infuse the Supreme Court arguments about the health-care mandate, the session focuses on this legal question: Does the Constitution give Congress the power to order all individuals above a certain income level to buy health insurance? Twenty-six states, the National Federation of Independent Business and several individuals argue that Congress has overreached. But we believe the government has the better of the policy and legal case for why the individual mandate is necessary and constitutional.
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