DOWN YONDER, FL. – There’s a mom missin’ ‘round these parts on this Mother’s Day. Oh, she’s not really missin’. We know where she is. It’s just that she’s not walkin’ along the shore or eatin’ supper like the rest of us. And, to be sure, she’s still around. I know that ‘cause I...
The times had changed greatly by that balmy spring morning when Mattie stopped by the old farm house to pay her respects. Martin Luther King, Jr., had preached, led, taught, suffered and died trying to make sure the discrimination and paternalism of the past...
Christmas began, of course, with the birth of a child. Born in a barn and laid in a manger, that tiny infant was a gift to the world; a gift intended to relieve the world of its slavish attachment to itself, to relieve the...
Well, ho-ho-ho, it’s that time of the year again! It’s the time of the year when nearly all Floridians are hailed by their temporary Yankee neighbors with the traditional greeting, “Geez, it just doesn’t feel like Christmas inFlorida.”
Let’s see, doing the math…okay, carry the one…that’s about $7.6 billion additional dollars flowing into Florida and almost 600,000 new jobs. Somehow, I think we’d all say, “yes,” to such a bold investment in ourselves, our communities, our economy, our future.
From Teddy Roosevelt’s Bully Pulpit to President Barack Obama’s embrace of social media, presidential communication tends to define communication as a cultural phenomenon.
