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Opinion

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 7, 2014
City approvals frustration

City planning staff was disappointed to read the article in the Feb. 14 Business Observer.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • March 7, 2014
Floridians will be safe; it's an election year

When the U.S. Congress and Barack Obama adopted the Unaffordable Care Act, they did something almost unheard of. They broke the long-standing government axiom that governments always operate in the margins.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • February 28, 2014
Weed yes, gambling no?

There is always great cynical amusement — and certainly exasperating frustrations — when Florida's legislators gather for their annual spring fling.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • February 7, 2014
Why stop at $10/hour? Go all the way: $200!

Barack Obama's campaigns for income equality and higher minimum wages explicitly illustrate what the Jesuit priests called “invincible ignorance.”

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • January 24, 2014
SB 542 lets free market fix flood insurance

This is a classic — the saga of flood insurance.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • January 3, 2014
Word for 2014: Revelation - alarm over the State

Happy New Year. Let's hope it is.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • December 19, 2013
Those 700,000 jobs and how we compare

When Jim Michaels was editor of Forbes magazine, he instilled in his editors and writers that this incisive, imperative question be answered in every story: “Compared to what?”

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 5, 2013
Proposed tax reform provision could be harmful to businesses and economy

With chaos reigning in Washington over the debt ceiling, Obamacare and the healthcare.gov website, it's easy for other issues that may have a major impact on businesses (and thus the average citizen) to fall off the national radar screen.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • November 15, 2013
How did this happen? A cosmic collision

The world is a bell curve. Our nation is a bell curve. Americans are a bell curve.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 6, 2013
Do not call it Obamacare

There are two reasons why we should not refer to it by its colloquial name. One is that it is wrong and the other is that it diverts valid opposition.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • August 29, 2013
Common core: Don't do it

Common Core Standards. Put them in the same tin can as Obamacare.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • August 9, 2013
The nightmare of Obamacare

This is sick. No, it's sickening. Obamacare.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 20, 2013
Referring to your column in the June 14 Business Observer...

From a human and humane point of view, it seems to me that their argument against an acute care satellite hospital is a stronger argument for it.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • June 14, 2013
Sorry, not enough people have died yet

Put another way, not enough people died or suffered irreversible maladies on their hour-long or 30-minute ambulance rides to one of the far-away hospitals.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 7, 2013
How the Florida Gators' defense managed to stymie FGCU ... for 25 years

In 1973, Southwest Florida was deemed too small for a university. It would take another 25 years until Florida Gulf Coast University formed to meet demand in the area

  • Opinion
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