Politicians suffer the slow burn of weather-related amnesia | Pat Beall
Perhaps the heat has affected their brains, but a lot of politicians seems to have forgotten climate change, writes columnist Pat Beall.
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Florida’s meatheaded ban on lab-grown meat | Pat Beall
"Passing a law banning customers from eating a burger that they cannot buy from supermarkets that cannot sell the burgers because there is not yet an industry to make the...
Palm Beach Democrats had better fix things now | Pat Beall
The dust-up among Democrats in Palm Beach County is indicative of the factional splintering taking place across the country, writes columnist Pat Beall, and the election is just six months...
Dateline Palm Beach: The more things change … | Pat Beall
Columnist Pat Beall returns to the pages of the Sun Sentinel with a review of recent news out of the county that finds Boynton Beach in a westward expansion phase,...
Observations on the courtship rites of developers and local governments | Pat Beall
Columnist Pat Beall notes that, whether delivering ultimatums or showering their sweethearts with gifts, developers woo city and county governments in different ways.
Even after arrests, trials and sentencing, pill-slinging doctors keep medical licenses | Pat Beall
Columnist Pat Beall writes that doctors arrested for and even convicted of fraudulently prescribing opioids keep their licenses years afterward, even after going to prison.
Time is the friend of ‘Riviera’s worst nightmare’ | Pat Beall
Fane Lozman has fought Riviera Beach all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won -- twice. Those were landmark victories for free speech and houseboat ownership, columnist Pat...
When Neo-Nazis and free speech collide | Pat Beall
The Florida Legislature is considering a bill that would crack down on hate speech, but would such a law run afoul of the First Amendment? asks columnist Pat Beall. And...
Legislature wants to scare you into silence | Pat Beall
Welcome to the free state of shut up and sit down. Not content to ban books and undermine the right to protest, Tallahassee is now poised to put a statewide...
Ag Reserve is a land of broken county promises | Pat Beall
You had to admire the moxie of a GL Homes representative who on Saturday walked into the lion's den of the Sierra Club Loxahatchee Group, and listened quietly through two...