Andrew Skerritt

What did Jennifer Carroll think would happen after millionaire candidate Rick Scott plucked her out of obscurity to run for lieutenant governor? Readers will hope to get some of those answers to that four-year-old question from Carroll, who is back on the scene doing interviews in anticipation of the publication of her autobiography, When You Get There, about growing up on the Caribbean island of Trinidad, emigrating to the United States, and living in Brooklyn, and serving in the military and…

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Maybe columnist Ann Coulter was on to something when she wrote: “No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer.” Maybe the Molly Pitcher of the Extreme Right had a notion of what she was talking about when she sought to rain on the red, white and blue FIFA soccer World Cup love-fest of the past three weeks. Coulter was acknowledging and criticizing the game’s immigrant status in this country. For her and for people like her, immigrant will always remain a pejorative, a…

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Heisman trophy winner Jameis Winston is in the news again — starring in the clichéd role of troubled star athlete. Winston was caught on camera this week walking out of a Tallahassee Publix supermarket with $32 worth of crab legs and crawfish he now admits he shoplifted. He must send another Thank You note to the Tallahassee Police Department, which has chosen to treat shoplifting like littering rather than the crime it is. So far more than 200 adults, many…

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