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An open letter to Gov. DeSantis from Orlando and Tampa Fringe festival staff

'We absolutely are not sexual festivals'

By Scott Galbraith, Trish Parry and Tempestt Halstead

Jul 11, 2024

Dear Governor DeSantis, Like you, we the Orlando and Tampa Fringe festivals care greatly about the citizens of Florida...

An open letter to Gov. DeSantis from Orlando and Tampa Fringe festival staff

Orlando restaurants burned rubber at the 2024 Michelin Guide ceremony

And our thoughts are racing on the ins and outs of this torqued system.

By Faiyaz Kara
Apr 19, 2024
'We are each other’s shelter': Why canceling medical debt matters in Florida

'Urge your commissioners to invest in the health, well-being and financial security of community members'

By Eimear Roy
Apr 15, 2024
Letter to the editor: The City of Orlando must re-evaluate its approach to a Pulse memorial

'Instead of disassociating from the OnePulse Foundation's flawed approach, the City appears intent on replicating its missteps.'

Apr 4, 2024
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tops the list of the year's worst failures of government transparency

The Foilies 2024: Sunshine laws blocked in the Sunshine State

By the Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock News
Mar 27, 2024
Pat Robertson, known for LGBT hate speech and a certain disgusting statement about the Orlando Pulse shootings, is dead

Too soon? Nah, long overdue.

By Jessica Bryce Young
Jun 9, 2023
Op-ed: ‘The immigrant community in Florida is facing an unprecedented attack’

Florida immigration bills currently being discussed put unnecessary and cruel obstacles to participation in nearly every part of daily life

By Omar Johnson and Ricardo Cortijo
Apr 17, 2023
Recognizing the worst failures of the year in government transparency

The Foilies Awards 2023

By the Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock News
Apr 5, 2023
Op-ed: ‘I fight for a world where those with MS get every opportunity to live a full and fulfilling life’

By Therese O'Hara
Mar 21, 2023
At this column’s end, American politics is so much dumber than it was at its beginning

The final installment of Informed Dissent.

By Jeffrey C. Billman
Mar 8, 2023
Op-ed: ‘The breathing room America needs is student loan debt forgiveness’

A bachelor’s degree is supposed to grant economic security and more job prospects. The opposite is happening

By Karoll Marroni
Feb 28, 2023
Op-ed: ‘We must curb the scourge of reading that plagues this nation’s children’

DeSantis doesn’t go far enough

By Karen Houppert
Feb 22, 2023
Guys like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have nothing to offer but rage

Bullying as politics infected the right long before Trump, and purging him won’t get rid of it.

By Jeffrey C. Billman
Feb 14, 2023
Incidents like the death of Tyre Nichols happen because of the 1967 ruling that created ‘qualified immunity’

Immunity creates a lack of accountability that permeates police stations all over the country

By Jeffrey C. Billman
Jan 31, 2023
Evidence in suspended DA’s lawsuit shows that DeSantis simply wanted to target a ‘reform prosecutor’

Republican political operative Larry Keefe picked Andrew Warren after a Google search and a chat with a right-wing sheriff.

By Jeffrey C. Billman
Jan 23, 2023
Start the year right by volunteering or donating to Orlando groups doing essential community work

Our 2023 Giving Guide

By Ida V. Eskamani, Bao Le-Huu, Matthew Moyer, Steve Schneider, Sarah Kinbar and McKenna Schueler
Jan 18, 2023
Kevin McCarthy will be the least powerful and effective speaker in modern history

It would be funny, in a tragicomic way, if the stakes weren’t so high.

By Jeffrey C. Billman
Jan 16, 2023
The 10 most important American political stories of 2022: Part Two

The Woke War drags on.

By Jeffrey C. Billman
Jan 4, 2023
The 10 most important American political stories of 2022: Part One

The end of Roe, the Trump collapse and more.

By Jeffrey C. Billman
Jan 1, 2023
Democrats say so long to the Senate's most attention-seeking member, Kyrsten Sinema

And don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.

By Jeffrey C. Billman
Dec 9, 2022
Elon Musk's Twitter purchase gives him the power of chaos, not the wisdom for governance

Let's definitely let a South African narcissist define what our First Amendment rights mean

By Jeffrey C. Billman
Dec 7, 2022

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1420 Lake Baldwin Lane, #91

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Cannabis Card Orlando East

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