Cleveland Stampley grinned as he locked the door to his FEMA trailer one last time. Out front, a case worker's pickup waited to take him to his new home at a nearby apartment complex. ...more

June 1, 2008

Joseph H. Brown's at it again. Nearly six years after an overwhelming majority of Floridians voted for Florida's workplace smoking amendment, he's still railing against it, as he did on May 18 in these very pages. He's still cherry-picking evidence to say we're all a bunch of idiots for voting for the amendment while ignoring thousands of reputable studies, easily available to anyone with access to Google, that say we're right. ...more

May 29, 2008

You may have seen the public service commercial. A woman brings her young daughter out to the car and straps her into a car seat. The announcer reminds us that 37,000 Americans are killed every year in automobile accidents, which made me think it was sponsored by the National Safety Council or a seat-belt advocacy group. ...more

May 18, 2008

Ask a roomful of health advocates, cancer specialists and policy wonks the best way to attack the dangers of cigarette smoking, and they'll all suggest the same weapon: teenagers. ...more

January 11, 2008

Oh, the light! The autumn light! Is there anything more glorious than a fall day, awash in the sun's low-slung amber rays? ...more

November 4, 2007

State Rep. Bill Galvano will ask state environmental regulators to begin new soil testing at Bayshore High School to determine what, if any, toxins may be making scores of alumni sick. ...more

October 27, 2007