Monthly Archives: January 2019
Ron DeSantis’ imperial governorship – a mixed bag with great potential
Governor Ron DeSantis has entered office with a bang. He’s spent his first two weeks in office suspending local elected officials, reversing Rick Scott’s policies on a few key matters and generally showing he’s able to use the power of the governorship as effectively as Richard Corcoran who is now in his administration, used the […]
A Star is Born: Beautiful and Flawed
A “Star is Born” goes to the heart of what is what is killing music. Technology, commercial interests and over-produced songs have crushed an art form that formerly captured human emotion and elevated the soul. If video killed the radio star in the 1980s then reality television stomped out any integrity or creativity that remained. […]
Central Florida Soccer Club joins NPSL
The National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) is proud to announce that Central Florida Soccer Club (Orlando, FL) has joined the league as an expansion team. The club will begin competition in the South Region’s Sunshine Conference in 2019. “The NPSL is thrilled to grow its presence in Florida,” NPSL Managing Director Cindy Spera said. “We […]
Throwback Thursday: 35 years since the historic first Football National Championship for a Florida school
Thirty five years ago today, the University of Miami were proclaimed the consensus football D1 National Champions – the first of eleven undisputed national titles won by Florida schools. All those titles were won between 1983 and 2013- in that period of the 31 national champions crowned, not only were 11 from Florida but Miami, […]
Book Review: These Truths by Jill Lepore
American history is more important now to comprehend and understand than perhaps anytime in our lives. Jill Lepore’s momentous single-volume These Truths, a critically acclaimed work provides a lens into the past and delivers a narrative of unparalleled significance for our times. Writing a sweeping narrative of American history is very difficult. It’s even more […]
The Florida Squeeze 