The four top candidates in the race to become Florida's next U.S. senator vied Monday to show the state's politically powerful Cuban-American community why each would be the best to fight for democracy in Cuba. ...more

December 22, 2009

CORAL GABLES (AP) — The four top candidates in the race to become Florida's next U.S. senator vied today to show the state's politically powerful Cuban-American community why each would be the best to fight for democracy in Cuba. ...more

December 21, 2009

It always helps to start at the beginning — in this case America. It begins with that Robert Frost moment of "two roads diverged in the wood" — and the road our founders took "made all the difference" — "the one less traveled by..." ...more

March 22, 2009

For family health reasons, I had to be in the northland last weekend and Connecticut did its very best to remind me why I moved to Florida. Chilly rain changing to ice and snow made driving between Norwalk Hospital to my old home in the north hills of Wilton just plain nasty. ...more

March 4, 2009

Can you name all three branches of the U.S. government? Do you know who Susan B. Anthony was? Do you know what rights the First Amendment guarantees? Most Americans don't. ...more

November 25, 2008

Can you name all three branches of the U.S. government? Do you know who Susan B. Anthony was? Do you know what rights the First Amendment guarantees? Most American's don't. That's according to a report from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that surveyed about 2,500 randomly selected citizens, asking them 33 basic questions about history, government and economics. ...more

November 24, 2008

Business As Usual Re: County and the dredge scheme. ...more

June 20, 2008