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What we know one year after Trayvon Martin shooting
Tuesday will mark one year since George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin. The gap between what we all thought we knew then and what we know now is as wide as Sanford's Lake Monroe. Zimmerman wasn't a white man who gunned down a black kid. It...
Tags: Prosecution, Sean Hannity, Witnesses, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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A year later, Trayvon Martin case murkier than ever
The simple story — cops yawn when burly white vigilante stalks and kills unarmed African-American child for the "crime" of walking while black — shocked the conscience of much of the nation a year ago and touched off an explosion of...Tags: Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Crime, Law and Justice, Lab Tests, George Zimmerman, Emmett Till
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Racial detours on the campaign trail
It may have been a bit surprising when the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held its national convention and Mitt Romney showed up. Romney, as comedian Reggie Brown put it, is "what people who hate white people think of when they...
Tags: Reggie Brown, Newt Gingrich, Minority Groups, Rush Limbaugh, Republican Party
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Sentinel's Central Floridian of the Year turns 30
The Orlando Sentinel's first Floridian of the Year for 1983 was a strong-willed woman who slugged it out with this state's power brokers. Coincidentally, so is our 30th honoree, Deirdre Macnab. Marjory Stoneman Douglas wasn't afraid to fight for their...
Tags: Little League Baseball, Toni Jennings, Everglades, Apopka, George Zimmerman
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Seer madness: Readers and I do our duty, predict 2013
With the help of several Latin scholars, I've come up with a fittingly snooty motto for this column's annual exercise in forecasting the news: Non coniectare imprudentior esset. Translation: Not to conjecture is imprudent. Inspiration: "Is it...
Tags: Cook County Government, Donne E Trotter, Executive Branch, Elian Gonzalez, Politics
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George Zimmerman case doesn't speak for Sanford
The national networks are sending in their well-coiffed correspondents to sound off on George Zimmerman's trial and Sanford's racist past. Expect to hear all about how racial tensions in Sanford are front and center once again. What you likely won't...
Tags: Sanford, Gun Control, Lake Mary, Altamonte Springs, George Zimmerman
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'The Watch': These guardians out of time, tune ★★
Timing is everything in comedy. When a neighborhood-watch volunteer was charged with shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martinearlier this year — in real life, that is — 20th Century Fox changed the title of its forthcoming comedy from...
Tags: Ben Stiller, Seth Rogen, Safety of Citizens, Government, Jonah Hill
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Memories of 2012: Long voting lines, too many gun tragedies
A simmering rage was building, with South Florida rallies featuring celebrities wearing hoodies and high school kids holding up bags of Skittles. This was a month after Miami-Dade high school student Trayvon Martin was killed in Central Florida by...
Tags: Voting, National Basketball Association, Fort Lauderdale, Murder, Executive Branch
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Legislative bipartisanship may not last through the holidays
TALLAHASSEE — Drink up, wayward partisans. Florida lawmakers may be striking a bipartisan tone as of late, but there are too many points of ideological contention for this camaraderie to survive intact beyond the holidays. Democrats are clamoring...
Tags: Voting, Fort Lauderdale, Insurance, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Politics
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'Stand your ground' task force just political theater
This is why Florida is the butt of the nation's jokes. We can't count our votes on time. The road to CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus' downfall veered straight off Interstate 4 and into the mansion of "Tampa Kardashian" Jill Kelley. We order...
Tags: Criminal Laws, Executive Branch, Politics, Tampa, Prosecution
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Race and criminality
I don't care about George Zimmerman's MySpace page. Granted, it was gratifying to read recently in The Miami Herald about his crude animus toward Mexicans ("soft ass wanna be thugs") and his reference to a former girlfriend as an "ex-hoe." Given the...Tags: The Miami Herald, MySpace, Crime, Law and Justice, Music, George Zimmerman
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George Zimmerman barely mentions race talking about Trayvon Martin
Something's missing from the hours of video and audio recordings released last week that, for the first time, let us hear George Zimmerman explain in his own words what happened the night he shot Trayvon Martin.
What's missing? Any sign of the rampant...Tags: MySpace, Social Issues, Crime, Law and Justice, George Zimmerman, Civil Rights
Feb 23, 2013
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Feb 22, 2013
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Jul 15, 2012
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Jan 20, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Jan 6, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Jun 5, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Jul 26, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Dec 29, 2012
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Dec 1, 2012
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Nov 17, 2012
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
May 8, 2012
|Column| Aberdeen News
Jun 23, 2012
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
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