Some people have one career, Elton Gissendanner has several. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Weather Service, the U.S. National Weather Service and the Georgia Air National Guard Weather Service. He graduated magna cum laude in 1955 as a doctor of veterinary medicine. He was twice the mayor of North Miami in the 1960s, he was a state representative for two years in-between mayoral terms, he worked on Gov. Bob Graham's staff from 1978-79, and directed the Florida Department of Natural Resources from 1979 to 1987. ...more

October 12, 2008

JoAnne Clay aims for a more active role in the community. ...more

July 17, 2008

If you look at the history of the women's movement, it appears to ebb and flow. Intense periods of protests - such as the 1920s, when women won the right to vote - are followed by dormant periods of seeming contentment with the status quo. The 1960s and '70s was a feminist heyday, marked by Betty Freidan, the birth control pill, Roe v. Wade and the drive to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. I was a young woman in my 20s then, living in Philadelphia and, later, Los Angeles, when women earned 49 cents for every man's dollar. I remember the rallies, consciousness-raising sessions and National Organization of Women meetings, selfishly hoping to be the beneficiary of improved job opportunities and equal pay. ...more

January 26, 2008

It's mystifying why the United States still doesn't have an Equal Rights Amendment, or a female president. ...more

October 7, 2007