Florida voters, know your rights and risks | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board begins a series of editorials on the importance of the...
Editorials
The final touch on Florida’s warped priorities | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board finds a multitude flaws in the Governor's line-item veto decisions...
Birthright citizenship prevails over bigotry | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board praises the U.S. Supreme Court for upholding birthright citizenship, and...
A very unpopular war, fought very badly | Editorial
From the Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, an updated assessment of Trump’s handling of the war...
James Uthmeier’s dark cloud of unreliability | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board examines the very troubling record of Florida attorney general James...
The Florida GOP’s Sunshine State Letdown | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board rips the Republican Party of Florida for rigged debate criteria...
Keep Trump far, far away from our elections | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board strenuously warns against changes to voting laws and procedures being...
Sara Baxter takes taxpayers for a costly ride | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board shows how Palm Beach County Commissioner Sara Baxter's penchant for...
The injustice of justices ignoring our rights | Editorial
Our opinion: The Florida Supreme Court predictably and wrongly upholds a gerrymandered map of Florida...
Keep the public in Broward public schools | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board offers cautionary advice to the Broward County School Board as...
Tax question filled with shameless propaganda | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board calls out the governor and legislature for a property tax...
Bad Iran ‘deal’ magnifies Trump’s incompetence | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board finds that President Trump's Iran 'deal' is an exercise in...
Property tax revenues keep growing. Why? | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board shows the projected rise in property values across Broward. Growth...
A failing president’s tawdriest distraction | Editorial
A UFC cage overshadowed the White House as part of President Trump's celebration of himself....
A turning point in U.S.-Israel relations | Editorial
Israel's greatest threat in Washington may be its own leadership, which is squandering goodwill built...
Stop fighting the county, Sheriff Tony | Editorial
At a time of high political and fiscal uncertainty, Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony has the...
A midsummer primary’s dream: engaged voters | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board surveys the political landscape as the primary election ballot takes...
Two DOGE probes in Broward are long overdue | Editorial
Tamarac and Fort Lauderdale deserve a good DOGE-ing. We only hope the forthcoming investigations are...
After Pulse, Orlando chose love, not hate | Editorial
After the massacre at Pulse nightclub, the people of Orlando showed they were determined not...
Child custody safeguards are urgently needed | Editorial
No family court judge should be allowed to do an end-run around Florida's dependency courts...
No more free passes for Pam Bondi | Editorial
In a complaint against Pam Bondi last year, the Florida Bar refused to discipline her...
Budget vetoes should reflect fiscal prudence, not petty revenge | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel and Orlando Sentinel editorial boards offer their opinions on the new state...
State ‘tax calculator’ is a slick sales pitch | Editorial
A tax savings estimate calculator put out by the DeSantis administration is a fine piece...
Don’t trust DeSantis to manage our money | Editorial
DeSantis has a history of misleading voters on money in general and constitutional amendments in...
A CBS credibility crisis. That’s the way it is | Editorial
Scott Pelley should have known publicly scolding management would get him fired. His accusations afterward...
Suddenly, Florida’s future is at stake | Editorial
The list of knowledgeable people and organizations, including Republican politicians and fiscally conservative groups, who...
Crying foul over another botched UF search | Editorial
Florida's flagship university has once again announced a lone candidate as presidential finalist. Shielding university...
An unfair outcome for Fair Districts | Editorial
A court ruling allows Florida’s disputed congressional map to remain in place for 2026, raising...
A sloppy and reckless rush to judgment on taxes | Editorial
Legislators should study how DeSantis' property tax proposal will affect municipalities and then produce well-crafted...
Pull the plug on this power mega-monopoly | Editorial
The parent company of FPL plans to gobble up Dominion Energy, allowing it to spread...
Slush fund is the biggest heist in history | Editorial
The $1.8 billion slush fund with which Trump will pay off his criminal supporters is...
This weak budget wasn’t worth the wait | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board opines on an underwhelming state budget that took far too...
Hollywood’s horrendous high-rise mistake | Editorial
The Editorial Board harshly judges Hollywood for having just made possibly the worst development decision...
An ethical caution flag for Delray’s mayor | Editorial
Delray Beach Mayor Tom Carney's lobbying of Planning and Zoning Board members on a construction...
Fliers complained about Spirit — until it was gone | Editorial
Spirit was notoriously known for no-frills flying, and it was ranked poorly by travelers. But...
A crossroads moment for Broward Democrats | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board is of the view that Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz made...
Palm Beach sheriff must answer for immigrant abuses | Editorial
Last year, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw promised immigrant crime victims, "we’re going to...
Shut down Florida’s bogus nursing schools | Editorial
Fly-by-night, for-profit nursing schools that offer Florida students little real training are a serious problem....
Tamarac finds a $500,000 political slush fund | Editorial
There they go again. Tamarac commissioners once again have skimmed city money to use for...
Sloths’ tragic journeys demand our protection | Editorial
The tragic deaths of dozens of sloths bound for a Central Florida animal attraction should...
A failed president and his edifice complex | Editorial
Between the ballroom, the arch, the renamed Kennedy Center and so much more, President Trump's...
The ‘degradation’ of divvying up state dollars | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board deplores the lack of transparency at the state Capitol as...
Florida rewrites history with a right-wing slant | Editorial
The whitewashing of American history continues with Gov. Ron DeSantis' alternative to AP U.S. History...
An outbreak of federal health incompetence | Editorial
A cruise ship hantavirus outbreak shows how far the DOGE-decimated, RFK-run CDC has fallen.
Broward has right approach on airport security | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board praises Broward county commissioners for giving serious consideration to creating...
Get it over with, Governor: Close ‘Alcatraz’ | Editorial
Even some in the Trump administration now want to close Alligator Alcatraz — not for...
A new Pork Chop Gang now rules Florida | Editorial
Unlike other states that have passed extreme gerrymanders after the Supreme Court's gutting of the...
A city’s ugly upheaval hints at more trouble ahead | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board deplores the sloppy and accusatory approach to reviewing the first-year...
As Social Security withers, Congress dithers | Editorial
Social Security could face enormous benefit reductions in seven years. There are plans to save...
Guilt, innocence and a strand of DNA | Editorial
The Florida Supreme Court should be very cautious about sanctioning an approach where the state...
Florida harms women, then keeps it secret | Editorial
How has Florida's six-week abortion ban affected maternal mortality? The Florida Department of Health won't...
A vital presence sadly exits Fort Lauderdale | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board writes that Commissioner John Herbst's unexpected resignation is a major...
The Herbst years: A brief review | Editorial
The high points, and low points, of John Herbst's career as a Fort Lauderdale city...
Family behind opioid crisis gets off easy | Editorial
Florida's 2000s pill mill crisis resulted in thousands of deaths. Doctors and pill mill owners...
The Supreme Court’s assault on voting rights | Editorial
There is nothing "race neutral" about diluting the voting power of Black voters in service...
Our great danger remains authoritarianism | Editorial
From the dismantling of USAID to the State Department's support of far-right leaders and movements,...
The darkest of days in Florida’s Legislature | Editorial
Four Republican state senators voted against Gov. DeSantis' partisan gerrymander, which appears to violate the...
Trashing Florida’s Constitution for partisan gain | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board analyzes the Legislature's consideration of a severely gerrymandered, possibly illegal...
Bleak session’s single success: Vaccines survive | Editorial
This week's special legislative session, dominated by a corrupt gerrymandering of congressional districts, won't be...
State could offer gas pump relief, but won’t | Editorial
In car-obsessed Florida, the governor and Legislature could and should temporarily life the state tax...
Another bird-brained idea from Donald Trump | Editorial
While Florida has been obsessing over Alligator Alcatraz, President Trump has been looking to refurbish...
A flash of financial sanity in Fort Lauderdale | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board praises three Fort Lauderdale commissioners who wisely halted progress on...
A Broward congresswoman’s infuriating downfall | Editorial
Faced with expulsion from the House, Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has resigned, and good riddance. Questions...
End the parade of specialty plates | Editorial
Florida now offers more than 180 specialty license plates. We have clearly gone too far.
Just say no to DeSantis’ election rigging | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board adamantly opposes a nakedly partisan and possibly illegal upcoming special...
The dark side of the U.S.-Israel alliance | Editorial
Just as in our own country, supporting Israel and supporting its rogue head of government...
Removing Trump is no longer an idle thought | Editorial
A Committee on Presidential Capacity, as suggested by the 25th Amendment and now proposed by...
County ‘slush fund’ a dangerous slippery slope | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board applauds most Broward commissioners for staunchly opposing a plan by...
The high cost of corporate cash in politics | Editorial
Florida lawmakers cannot legally accept contributions during the 60-day session, but they were flooded with...
Port land deal looks way too pricey | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board says Broward County would be overpaying for a 4.5-acre parking...
‘Lock her up’ if Pam Bondi won’t testify | Editorial
Pam Bondi is no longer with the Justice Department. Why are DOJ lawyers running interference...
Stop playing politics with Gulf sea life | Editorial
Defanging the Endangered Species Act to allow oil drilling along the Gulf Coast is a...
A shady budget mess unfolds at state Capitol | Editorial
The state budget, left unfinished after the 60-day legislative session, will be wrapped up in...
Uthmeier has forgotten who he represents: Us | Editorial
The problem with an appointed attorney general such as James Uthmeier is that the "people's...
Give voters a say on Lauderdale City Hall | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board urges Fort Lauderdale officials to pay for a new City...
A president who talks like a genocidal maniac | Editorial
The rantings and ravings of our president call into question once again his fitness for...
A life tragically lost, but her ideals endure | Editorial
Nancy Metayer Bowen believed in the power of representative government to do great things for...
Will Florida execute an innocent man? It’s too murky | Editorial
Florida might execute an innocent man. Prosecutors are preventing DNA analysis that would add certainty...
The spectacular rise and sudden fall of Pam Bondi | Editorial
Pam Bondi deserved to go. She ranks among the worst attorneys general in history for...
An intelligence failure in Tallahassee | Editorial
A bill meant to encodify Gov. Ron DeSantis' proposed AI bill of rights passed 35-2...
A growing culture of political violence | Editorial
The threat of political violence must end. It runs in all directions, including to Margate...
Pines wisely prefers voting in November | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board commends the city of Pembroke Pines for reaching a consensus...
Congresswoman should resign or be expelled | Editorial
Whether by her own resignation or a two-thirds vote of the House on expulsion, Sheila...
Time for a penalty flag on James Uthmeier | Editorial
James Uthmeier's latest political stunt continues the state attorney general's crusade to defend the civil...
Hiding in Hope Florida report’s shadows | Editorial
Grand jury findings in the Hope Florida scandal remain sealed. If they have nothing to...
Florida, a land of dubious distinctions | Editorial
Florida is number one: in ICE arrests, carpetbagging disgraced congressional candidates and members of Congress...
A resounding victory by Emily Gregory | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board reflects on Emily Gregory's impressive victory in what was a...
America must reject a war fueled by Christian nationalism | Editorial
Couching the war in Iran as a religious war, as members of Congress and this...
Chaos and a curious loan in Pembroke Park | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board calls for much greater transparency and fuller explanations of suspicious...
The power of ‘sunshine’ vs. Pete Hegseth | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board critiques Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's efforts to control, manipulate and...
Keep news No. 1 in WLRN legal fight | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board revisits a long-running legal dispute with adverse ramifications for news...
Even sheriffs are fed up with immigration policy | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board praises Florida sheriffs who publicly question the nation's hard-line immigration...
A wise red flag for red light cameras | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board salutes the sharp-minded logic of a Broward County judge who...
Suspicious spending in Tamarac draws scrutiny | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board views it as a hopeful sign that Broward County watchdogs...
The endless cycle of Trump embarrassments | Editorial
From fundraising off dead soldiers to politicizing the National Transportation Safety Board, the past week...
Boca’s big blue wave is a mirage | Editorial
Social media is abuzz with news of Democrat Andy Thomson's victory in the Boca Raton...
Let voters approve Trump road marker | Editorial
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board faults Lauderdale-by-the-Sea for a second effort to honor President Trump...
Surveying the wreckage in Tallahassee | Editorial
In this year's regular legislative session, the basic rights of Floridians were under attack as...
As war casualties mount, so do questions | Editorial
Despite President Trump's insistence that maybe Iran had bombed themselves, we now know that a...
Broward health crisis cries out for action | Editorial
The state should step in to mediate the contract impasse between the insurer Florida Blue...