Editorial: Bureaucratic Incompetence Costs The Taxpayers
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Editorial: Bureaucratic Incompetence Costs The Taxpayers

How often do we see the taxpayers money wasted because government bureaucrats fail to use good business practices in our local governments. In the late 1980’s Manatee County entered into a contract with NDC, a local construction company to build the downtown county office building and parking garage. Normally parking garages should last for 50…

Editorial: High IQ Stupid People
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Editorial: High IQ Stupid People

America’s urban area inhabitants are the victims of “high IQ stupid people”. We have seen beautiful cities become uninhabitable because social studies and anthropology majors from northeastern colleges have been allowed to unleash their favorite professors’ theories on the unsuspecting inhabitants of what used to be well-run cities.

Editorial: False Accusations of Racism in Manatee County
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Editorial: False Accusations of Racism in Manatee County

One of the few certainties in today’s highly charged political environment is that when one side in an argument is losing they will accuse the other side of being racist. My argument does not make sense so obviously my opponent is racist. We find this label often used by Democrats to accuse Republicans of racism. …

Editorial: Guns and Violence
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Editorial: Guns and Violence

The issue of guns in America has floated over our political landscape like cumulus clouds on a summer day.

Many opinions on firearms can be correlated to where a person lives. Many people living in urban areas have had little experience with guns and are uneasy when they are exposed to firearms. Many people living in rural areas have had extensive exposure to firearms and consider them a normal part of everyday life. 

Editorial: DeSantis Showed Common Sense
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Editorial: DeSantis Showed Common Sense

Four years ago the voters of Florida nearly elected Andrew Gillum as their governor. Gillum was a Tallahassee politician with a history of questionable ethics. He did not mind using taxpayer dollars for his personal benefit. The Florida Democratic Party and Charlie Crist campaigned for Gillum and warned the voters that DeSantis as Governor would be a disaster for the state.