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Matt Walsh
December 10, 2020

Our challenge: Keep Florida Florida

You can interpret Florida’s presidential election results as delivering two messages.

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Matt Walsh
December 10, 2020

Stay the course, governor

The media chafes that DeSantis is an outlier. But his approach is helping 95% of Floridians not infected with the coronavirus.

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Matt Walsh
December 3, 2020

Florida bounces back

Despite the struggles in hospitality, Florida indeed has seen a V-shaped recovery. But questions remain about early 2021.

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Matt Walsh
November 25, 2020

Triumph of a noble cause

On the 400th anniversary of the Puritans settling in the New World, the story of the repatriation of Williams Bradford’s history of Plymouth Colony is a vivid reminder of why our nation exists.

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By Jim Tollerton
November 18, 2020

My view: Pilgrims learned socialism doesn't work

The first colonists at Plymouth, Mass., almost starved until they switched to private property and ownership.

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By Vittorio Nastasti and Adrian Moore
November 18, 2020

Florida ballot measure results are a mixed bag

Florida passed three of the six amendments on the general election ballot.

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Guest Author
November 16, 2020

Letters to the editor: Readers question recent column on elections

Readers sound off

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Matt Walsh
November 12, 2020

Voters deserve the truth

The integrity of the national election process far outweighs Biden’s unofficial victory claim.

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Matt Walsh
November 12, 2020

A shoutout to Florida’s elections officials and staffs

With each screw-up, elections supervisors and the Legislature reformed and refined the system to the point now that Florida’s elections system is a national model and gold standard.