The 2022 State of the State delivered by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was more a continued tour for his national profile than a report on the Sunshine State. All state-of addresses are really craftily disguised campaign speeches. But DeSantis seemed adamant to let his White House ambitions show. The guv said some form of the […]
¡Pero por supuesto! Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had to know that his stance against mask mandates in public schools — and his threat to defund schools and take away the salaries of school officials who defy him — would become campaign fodder for the 2022 election. He didn’t have to wait long. Congressman and former […]
By GUEST COLUMNIST George Volsky Statistics daunt. Early this month, more than 200 million cases of Covid-19 and 614,000 deaths, were recorded in 182 countries. These totals, believed to be considerably undercounted, unequivocally confirm that the pandemic that appeared to have stabilized at the beginning of the year, has surged anew. This is due mainly […]
Can you imagine 30 people in a room today without masks? The governor can. If those people are children. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — who has repeatedly failed to act responsibly on the COVID-19 emergency — has come under intense fire for his executive order forbidding local governments from making mask mandates. This came after […]
Our state governor was in Little Havana last week on hand to distribute vaccines to the Bay of Pigs veterans at a press conference at the Brigade 2506 house. “We are inspired by folks who are willing to stand up and fight for freedom,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said, just a little over a month after […]
As expected, Florida’s House Bill 1, the governor’s priority anti-protest law disguised as an “anti-rioting” measure, passed its first committee meeting Wednesday — along partisan lines. The 11-6 vote at the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Subcommittee followed a hearing of more than two hours with about 70 public commenters, most against the bill, and […]
The presidential search committee at Miami Dade College meets this week to resume the politically-tainted process of finding a new leader to take the nationally-recognized state college into the future. They will review 60-plus applications for the top job and whittle that down to a maximum of 10. But it might be another colossal waste […]
Karma is, indeed, a bitch. Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez — who has famously blocked Ladra from events and expelled her and others from council meetings — was himself intercepted and prevented from entering a meeting Tuesday with Gov. Ron DeSantis and several local mayors to discuss ongoing efforts to curb the spread of COVID19 in […]
Where were you when Miami immigration activist Thomas Kennedy told Florida Gov. Ron “DeSastre” DeSantis and Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez off for bungling the response to the COVID19 health and economic crisis? That’s what future generations will ask each other every summer as they take a week to honor our COVID19 dead. Kennedy did Monday […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis showed Wednesday that he is not a leader, but a follower. And he’s following the wrong people. DeSantis issued a statewide “stay-at-home” order Wednesday, one day after refusing to do so simply because President Donald Trump had a change of heart. He pretty much said so. He also literally took the “essential” […]