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  • Denise Federer
  • November 15, 2019
Critical thinkers are critical to your success

There is good news: Critical thinking can be taught.

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    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • October 30, 2019
Review and comment: A $15 minimum wage hurts too many

Floridians are likely to vote in 2020 to mandate a 77% increase in Florida’s minimum wage. Don’t be fooled. It would be destructive to all Floridians — lost jobs, less service, higher prices.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adrian Moore
  • October 25, 2019
Florida’s highway performance is a mixed bag

Reason Foundation ranks the performance of state highway systems relative to one another, and Florida came in 40th.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • August 29, 2019
Opinion: Foolish CEOs butcher, bury capitalists

Business owners and CEOs are deathly afraid to speak to their employees about the virtues of capitalism. But there’s nothing wrong with letting new employees know in their orientations and employee manuals that you and your company embrace capitalism — an

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • August 1, 2019
Our View: English binds us together

The Voting Rights Act created a special class for Puerto Ricans. Once of the consequences is the weakening of the incentive to assimilate.

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  • March 19, 2019
A Call to End the Debt Crisis

With annual deficit spending topping $1 trillion and national debt topping $22 trillion, conditions call for a national convention of the states.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • January 4, 2019
2019 word: Chivalry

Men, 2018 was a lousy year. We need to change the trend lines. Adopting the codes of the honorable knights of the Middle Ages would be a good way to start.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • November 1, 2018
Amendments advice: Where does it fall on the freedom scale?

There are exceptions, of course. This is why it helps to know some of the background and nuances of the questions. As we know, legislators and others sometimes create confusing questions that, on the surface, sound reasonable, but in practice are meant to

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • November 1, 2018
A letter to no-party affiliated voters: You have the power

ur preference on the role of government would be one that serves as a referee in disputes among its citizens and to protect its citizens from others from inflicting physical force.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Denise Federer
  • September 14, 2018
Change management

Here are five ways to help drive a culture of change.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • August 17, 2018
We recommend …

Florida voters often know little about their state constitutional office candidates. Perhaps our rating system can offer some insight.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adrian Moore
  • August 3, 2018
An end to poverty?

Our entire cultural and economic base would have to transform for a UBI to work without creating problems of unaffordable costs, disincentives to strive, create and help others, and even more conflict between doers and takers.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Columnist .
  • July 13, 2018
The burden of over-regulation remains a key threat

Our country needs regulations and no one is calling for zero regulations. But, there comes a tipping point where the burden is just so taxing that it hurts economic growth. Case in point was made by the Obama administration that the over-regulation of the

  • Opinion
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  • Columnist .
  • June 21, 2018
Student loans — economic shackles — present looming heartache

A commission assembled by the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) says change is needed in the undue hardship standards that apply to student loans in bankruptcy discharges.Student loan debt “is one of the most significant economic problems facing the Uni

  • Opinion
  • By Scott Amatuccio
  • June 15, 2018
Want an SBA loan? Get to yes, fast.

SBA Loans, banks, Axiom Bank, small business, yes, Scott Amatuccio

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