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Police union protects incumbent sheriff by playing hardball in Palm Beach sheriff’s race | Pat Beall
Columnist Pat Beall writes that a Palm Beach County police union obtained private health information on a Republican challenger to Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and then used that information in an...
School district and state showed transgender athlete’s mom the way | Pat Beall
If Jessica Norton, the mother of a transgender girl who was playing volleyball in violation of the law, "lied," "bullied" and "distorted facts" as her accusers say, she certainly had...
Who needs NOAA when you’ve got Project 2025? | Pat Beall
Among the many radical changes proposed in the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, a blueprint for a right-wing presidential administration, is the dismantling of NOAA. Columnist Pat Beall notes that this...
What to do with all those classified documents sitting around your house | Pat Beall
Now that U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has given the go-ahead to bring all our nation's secrets out in the open, writes columnist Pat Beall, it's time to drag those...
Panthers’ ocean trip with Stanley Cup horrifies nation’s hockey prudes | Pat Beall
Has the entire world forgotten a race horse eating oats from the Stanley Cup? Or its place on a strip club stage? Or the baby that peed in it? Outraged...
When the next Jeffrey Epstein arrives, will we spot him? | Pat Beall
Columnist Pat Beall writes about the sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein of Palm Beach, who unsuspectingly terrorized young women for years.
Young or old, everything is relative | Pat Beall
Columnist Pat Beall shows how age and wisdom do not necessarily go hand-in-hand.
From the Senate floor to your bedroom, pols hide anti-contraception, anti-IVF agenda | Pat Beall
People like Florida's U.S. senators have an odd way of denying that anyone is coming after contraceptives or IVF and then voting to deny guaranteeing access to contraceptives and IVF,...
Florida schools still indoctrinate children — as long as it’s the right kind of indoctrination | Pat Beall
Briefly removed from Google's app store for hate-speech violations, PragerU's "educational" videos, including climate change denial and belittling the horrors of chattel slavery, are welcome in Florida's classrooms, writes columnist...
Palm Beach County ex-cop and cyberstalker has a new life as a Putin toady | Pat Beall
After fleeing to Russia one step ahead of the FBI in 2016, former Palm Beach County Sheriff's Deputy John Mark Dougan has found new life as a Kremlin propagandist.