Posts in category Politics

By GEORGE BRENNAN Cape Cod Times HYANNIS, Mass. – Jesse Barboza remembers looking at the photographs of American presidents on the wall of his teacher’s …

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON – To supporters, zero-tolerance policing has long represented a logical crime-fighting approach: Crack down on minor infractions before they …

By MICHELLE HOLLINGER MHollinger@sfltimes.com MIAMI – The three women have been impacted by gun violence in devastating ways. Sybrina Fulton lost her 17-year old son, …

By MEGAN TRIMBLE Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. – Police in New Jersey’s capital city have reinstated a curfew for juveniles, but the decision to drop …

By DR. GREG GERDEMAN I have built my career, the last 20 years, on the study of how marijuana affects the brain, and am very …

By JESSICA SPENCER “Our Health Matters,” writes Kim McCray in last week’s Political Special Section. In her piece, which is actually a perfect display of …

By MICHELLE HOLLINGER MHollinger@Sfltimes.com MIAMI – If they had nothing more to go on than the candidates’performance at a recent forum,voters in attendance just might …

Judge Fred Seraphin 11th Judicial Circuit Group 5 Seraphin was born in Port Au Prince, Haiti and became the first Haitian-American judge in Florida. Suffering …

By EUGENE K. PETTIS The fight for justice and equality is nothing new for the African-American community. Since our arrival in this country, there have …

By REVEREND O’NEAL DOZIER After failing to pull the wool over the eyes of Florida voters in 2014, the proponents of Amendment 2, the so-called …