Public Enemy Number 1
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A tiny hobbit tries to explain to the marble majesty of America's Sheriff Grady Judd and Publix owner Barney Barnett that they're just two more libs to…
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The former mayor angrily declines to answer questions about the positions and lies of the candidate he so publicly backs with his money and name and fa…
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Saga Stevin is, by far, the most virulently anti-honesty, anti-Lakeland, and anti-black candidate for any office in my 22 years of living here. It's no…
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American kids are watching too many American adults model or indulge nihilism as civics. When power refuses to model just order; we shouldn't complain …
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Only strongly asserted citizenship can make the American idea of representative democracy work. It's up to us. Here's one idea for organizing that welc…
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Human connection and collaboration in public life are impossible without a common frame of citizenship. Saga Stevin wants to shrink Lakeland's frame to…
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Making sense of the anti-Big Test *political* bombshell from Florida that wiped out 25 years of GOP education and "liberal reform" policy rhetoric in o…
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Killing Bryan Riley's pathologies will take much much much more courage and action than fantasizing about killing Bryan Riley's body, Sheriff Judd. You…
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Lakeland's race for mayor offers an excellent localized example of the national struggle between good and bad citizenship that will define America -- a…
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My great aunt Susie Lee Walton championed Putnam County's Confederate Art project in 1924. But 2021's spiteful Confederates also betray the "inspiratio…
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Capitol Lynch Mob supporters love famous Sheriff Grady Judd and are the core of his political support. His meek public submission to them will define h…
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A Polk County case study in how transparency makes for better policy and enhances public trust.
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