I was born and raised here [in Florida], so I still have tremendous affection for the state - especially the few wild places that haven't disappeared under concrete. What's left is still worth fighting for, and that's why I stay.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.

Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.