Browsing: Opinions

     Former State Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried has agreed to take over as the new chair of Florida Democratic Party. Initially Nikki Fried did not want the job, because it had very few thank you’d.  The Florida Democratic Party had a history of financial shortfalls, rampant infighting, and a bad job on voter registration.

      About four years ago, The Gantt Report told you The Cat would throw the blow that would knock “Teflon” Donald Trump off of his right-wing pedestal. The cat returned.

     “I think we all understand we have to be solutions driven. And the solutions are at hand,” Harris said at a climate summit earlier this month. “We need to make up for some lost time, no doubt. This is going to have an exponential impact on where we need to go.”

     The research is copious and hard to refute that minority media ownership is dismally low and discrimination is prevalent and persistent in the media industry. Women and people of color who decide to make media their careers have fewer opportunities than their male or white peers. This lack of diversity and opportunity needs to change. A proposed transaction awaiting the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) approval for close to a year will significantly advance diversity and minority capacity in the media industry.

         Lucius Gantt doesn’t have a reputation as a liar but apparently, Fox News built a large viewership and a huge advertising base by pushing the limit on misdirection and misinformation.

     Oral arguments in the case happened in late February. Litigants, backed by far-right politicians, are trying to derail the Biden plan that would significantly reduce or even eliminate debt for millions of lower-income people across the country. Nearly half of Latino borrowers and a quarter of Black borrowers would have their entire student debt relieved.

     From the very inception of hip hop, there was always something violent and destructive about this art form. No one likes to talk about drugs, sex, guns and crime, but somewhere underneath all the glitz and glamour, there was always violence and death.

    Introduction of the oral birth control pill in 1950   ignited America’s sexual revolution. However, the full impact of the “pill” later occurred in the 1960’s. An overwhelming social and cultural revolution drastically changed individuals’ attitudes and morality towards sex. This liberalized attitude towards sex and morality also ushered in a breed of sexual ‘promiscuous predators and promiscuous partners.

     Recently, a Florida State Senator’s proposed bill that would require bloggers that commented or opined about Florida’s Governor or State Legislators, should register with the Florida State Government, pay a registration fee, and reveal who is paying the blogger.

Many of these threats have been made on social media and in the news by extremists aligning with some of Florida’s best-funded environmental activist groups. At the center of their agenda are all policies that seek to dehumanize us, take away our jobs and ultimately, destroy our Glades communities.