In an age where the voice of the people is heard in ways that were unthinkable in previous generations, an age where opinions, ideas, and thoughts can no longer be constrained or held back, an age where an individual can express their voice against the collective majority, in this privileged age of self empowerment there [...]

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It’s so embarrassing to find ourselves clapping and cheering shamelessly when people in a position of wealth or power suddenly find they have become one of us: that is, a parent or sibling of someone with a developmental disability. We don’t cheer for the disability, honestly! None of us would choose it. We frankly wish [...]

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Some narcissists who are in positions of power, but believe more power should yet be theirs, seek to make the entire world their stage. But what will they risk to achieve this end? Will they dismantle the world’s greatest democracy?Today, I suspect the founding fathers of this country must be rolling in their graves. For [...]

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It has been almost 100 years since 52 people, most of them prominent American leaders in their own right, issued a call for action on Feb. 12, 1909 that launched what has since become the oldest, best and most successful civil rights organization in the world. This call for action developed in response to an [...]

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District 51 candidate Janet Long has developed a five point plan to stabilize the property insurance industry in the State of Florida. The plan includes:Support the reorganization of CITIZENS so that it becomes a real insurance company organizationally and statutorily. This would create competitive rates and they would be required to do the same risk [...]

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