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Today on Context Florida: Richard Corcoran, Iowa redistricting and the GOP debate

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Today on Context Florida: Speaker-Designate Richard Corcoran is poised to take over the reins of the Florida House of Representatives for the 2016-2018 term. Former state Rep. Mike Fasano has known him for more than 30 years and says finer public servant than Corcoran would be hard to find. He has the skills, abilities and Tallahassee “know-how” to be an effective leader. He knows how to “get the job done,” Fasano adds. In the far-from-perfect world of politics, Martin Dyckman says…

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Today on Context Florida: Elston Edward “Steve” Roady, generational poverty and cyber-skimming

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Today on Context Florida: Martin Dyckman writes that Florida lost one of its oldest and best citizens when Elston Edward “Steve” Roady, a professor emeritus of political science at Florida State University, died at Tallahassee last week, four months into his 96th year. He was one of Dyckman’s favorite professors there, long ago, and a good friend. Nearly 1 million children live at or below the poverty line in Florida — roughly defined as having an annual income of about $24,000…

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Today on Context Florida: Jeb! or Jeb?, Jeff Atwater & speech and Pensacola sickness

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Today on Context Florida: To appreciate why Donald Trump is thumping Jeb! Bush in the polls, Martin Dyckman says to simply substitute a question mark for the exclamation point. Jeb? isn’t doing so well at persuading people that what they think they heard isn’t what he meant to say. It doesn’t take a degree in psychology to know that someone’s first, unguarded remark reveals much more about him than any effort to explain it. The latest example is his vacillating position…

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Today on Context Florida: Arrogant billionaires, technical disruptions and Donald Trump

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Today on Context Florida: Our next president may well owe the office to arrogant billionaires or be one himself, says Martin Dyckman. Meanwhile, The New York Times reports that fewer than 400 families account for nearly half the $388-million already invested in that election still more than a year away. Did America shed blood to be rid of monarchy only to have it come to this? Blake Dowling asks: What is technical disruption? Simply described, he thinks of it as new…

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Today on Context Florida: Medicare foes, pro-life attacks and skunks in Martin County

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Today on Context Florida: America’s doctors have long since made their peace with Medicare, which marked its 50th anniversary last week, but Martin Dyckman says the program’s oldest and most implacable enemy, the ideological right wing, is still bent on destroying it. In their libertarian outlook, any government program that helps people deprives them of liberty. Dyckman doesn’t doubt that some of them truly believe this, although with others it is simple selfishness coated with snake oil. Pro-life proponents continue their…

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Today on Context Florida: Marco Rubio a Bush-spoiler, obnoxious Donald Trump and Pensacola investment

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Today on Context Florida: Marco Rubio has already raised more than $12 million for his White House bid, says Peter Schorsch, with outside groups aligned with Rubio raising twice that. So far, raising money and handcuffing Jeb Bush are about all Rubio’s been able to accomplish on the presidential campaign trail. According to Martin Dyckman, there hasn’t been a presidential candidate as fat-headed, obnoxious and unqualified as Donald Trump. Yet more Republicans seem to favor him than any of the others. That…

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Today on Context Florida: Charlie Crist, climate change and good news

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Today on Context Florida: While thinning files last week, Martin Dyckman came across one labeled “Crist” and wondered whether to dump it. After successive losses for the U.S. Senate and for governor again, hadn’t Charlie reached the end of the line, he thought. No, something will happen to bring him back. The next day, something did. On climate change adaptation, Alan Farago says the hour is very late. Only seven years ago the mainstream media began reporting the likelihood that warming temperatures…

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