Today on Context Florida:
As much as we would like to think otherwise, in politics not everyone can be a winner. Peter Schorsch says that few will disagree that 2014 was a particularly fertile political year, one that produced a bumper crop of political winners – most of them Republicans. Nevertheless, the political calculus is always the same. For every successful campaign, there is an equivalent loser. Schorsch offers his list of the year’s most disappointing Florida politicians, in ascending order of disappointment.
Shannon Nickinson’s Christmas wish is a humble one, from one informed citizen to whatever benevolent spirits remain at work in the universe. She wants the grownups to be in charge. Pensacola is a community with promise, where much progress has been made, but where much remains to be done. It needs adults at the helm.
In moving the U.S. closer to normal relations with Cuba, what Obama gives the Castro brothers is the eventual promise of more economic prosperity. But it may be too late to benefit either one of the Cuban leaders, says Jac Wilder VerSteeg. And Obama’s policies on Cuba and Russia raise this question: Should economic sanctions be canceled just because they don’t work?
During two years working with a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sea turtle research team, Claire Gonzales developed a respect for the leatherback sea turtle. But, sadly, sea turtles are in danger. Of the threats, one of the most prominent for sea turtles is the degradation of habitat, partly from the alarming rise of plastic debris in the world’s oceans.
