The 2021 Legislative Session adjourned on April 30 after approving a record $101.5 billion budget. The $9.3 billion increase over last year’s $92.2 billion budget is attributed to COVID-19 related impacts. Of the anticipated $10.2 billion Federal American Rescue Plan funds expected to come to ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis is poised to sign HB 233. The bill requires the State Board of Education and each of Florida’s colleges and universities to conduct an annual assessment “related to intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity.” The Board of Education must “select or create an ...
The number alone is staggering. More than 700 children in Lee County are in foster care, relative/non-relative care or shelters. With so many children in the system, some are bound to fall between the cracks. However, Jessica Stanfield, executive director of the Guardian ad Litem Foundation for ...
Recently, I read an article about boat standards, and I learned a great deal — more than I need, quite honestly — about ABYC standards and how ABYC is the U.S. representative of the ISO. The following stemmed from an article I had read entitled, “How To Re-Board When Alone,” a subject I ...
As a young boy, I often struggled with what is called “flying off the handle.” Too many times my anger got the best of me. When my temper flared, I sometimes acted out in harmful ways. Recently, we have witnessed an extraordinary number of mass shootings. Some reports say there have been ...
A friend whom I’ve known since college moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, about 15 years ago. About two years ago his tennis group invited a new member into its doubles game. As is routine when you meet somebody new, you begin asking a new acquaintance questions about his background to get to ...
To bring the unusual and unique to an island native garden, the addition of a silvery-blue buccaneer palm (Pseudophoenix Sargentii) is a great choice. This specimen palm has lots to recommend it for island living. It is very salt tolerant, slow growing and wind tolerant. No two buccaneer palms ...
“Into The Woods,” written by Stephan Sondheim and James Lapine, was the “fairy tale” musical performed by the amazing Florida Rep Education's Winter Conservatory. These teenage students did an amazing job recently performing this rather challenging show. This musical may feature many ...
This is my mother's special, pizza dough recipe. It is easy to prepare and can be placed in the freezer for up to three months. Use fresh yeast only if you can buy it directly from a bakery; most of the supermarket yeast is already past its prime. The starter can be kept in the refrigerator in ...
(For José R. Pacheco) They thought the name would do it. “Let’s call him Joseph, not José, the first Americano in the family, he will speak and read and write in English, he will be one of them.” So after my home delivery, as my father stood at my mother’s ...
