David Schutz

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The @sun-sentinel.com and @orlandosentinel.com are undertaking a sweeping, join investigation of Florida’s property insurance market, and whether recent attempts at reforms have been effective — or fallen short.

Of course, there is that pesky First Amendment. lt guarantees free speech, which includes the right to not speak. This is the slippery slope of compelled speech.

“Rhetoric” is the wrong word.

Two words: Kyle Rittenhouse.

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

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One of the biggest storms in years is near. What to expect in your area. Snow and ice will start on Friday across the Rockies and Plains, push into the South, Midwest and Appalachians on Saturday, then reach the East Coast on Sunday.

My area :

Friday 🌤️ 80
Saturday ⛅️ 80
Sunday ☀️ 83
Monday 🌥️ 82

Brutal.

As the day comes to an end, here’s a reminder that if you prioritize ideology over morality, you’re driving without brakes or a steering wheel.

“Thank you for keeping me apprised”???? That’s something I say to work emails that have absolutely nothing to do with my job but I’m just being nice.

Nothing about this is okay.

The President of the United States is on Fox News right now gabbing about the U.S. attack on Venezuela before addressing the American people.

So the new order of information is: Truth Social → Fox News → the public → Congress, maybe?

The link on the White House site goes to that post. And the president’s first statement was not made directly to the American people who funded the operation but to Fox News’ audience.

Just pointing out that the White House’s announcement that the U.S. launched a huge military attack that ended with the capture of the head of another county was through a post made to the president’s paying members of his own social platform. …

At some places, it’s hard to dispute that. I can tell you that as a news decision-maker at a regional news organization, I have not felt one bit of the pressure you described from above — despite media-hostile state and federal governments. Hopefully it stays that way.

As a member of the media, I can’t say this enough: It’s the media’s job to arm you with information. It’s your job to decide what to do with that information.

Kudos to @orlandosentinel.com for pushing the state of Florida on these records.

The DeSantis administration this year cites “safety issues” as the reason for removing rainbow and other decorative street markings. Their own social media posts contradict those claims — until the posts were deleted.

A Christmas gift for Santa: What you learn as an unlikely first-time St. Nick in South Florida How a Sun Sentinel writer’s random decision to grow a beard for the Florida Panthers led to an anxious debut as Santa Claus — and a lesson: Santa is real.

How a first-ever beard — sprouted as a good luck charm for the Florida Panthers — turned our reporter from a spotlight-shunning, stage-shy wallflower into an improbable Santa Claus.

"The most memorable gift I am likely to receive this Christmas didn’t cost a thing."

I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal. One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.

To those who demand to know — on repeat — “why the media isn’t covering this” or “why reporters aren’t talking about that,” I urge you to read this from @washingtonpost.com’s @hannahnatanson.bsky.social. Reporters like her are heroes.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Broward or Lauderdale? Our reader poll shows little support for county name change We asked readers how they would vote if asked to change Broward County to Lauderdale County. Here’s how more than 1,000 of them answered.

Should Broward County become Lauderdale County? Here are the results of our online poll of more than 1,000 readers.

Altidor massacre: Family holds faith cold case will be solved | Listen to Felonious Florida podcast Nearly three decades later, the family of the four victims in the 1997 Altidor murders are no closer to closure. They’ve pleaded again for renewed focus on the unsolved case.

The family of the four victims of the brutal 1997 Altidor Massacre — Theresia Laverne and Marie, Samantha and Sabrina Altidor — gathered at a Miramar city meeting this week to call for renewed efforts on the enduring cold case. Read what happened.

The family of Theresia, Marie Carmel, Samantha and Sabrina will gather next Wednesday at Miramar City Hall to raise their voices in a plea for justice.

‘Pillowcase Rapist’ on trial after sexual assault decades ago | Listen to Felonious Florida podcast Convicted ‘Pillowcase Rapist’ Robert Koehler is accused of raping a 25-year-old woman in her Miami-Dade town home in 1984. His trial started Tuesday in a Miami courtroom.

Miami’s accused Pillowcase Rapist (Season 4: In the Darkness) is on trial for a new attack — this one from 1984.

The “media” asks questions. They are often not answered or answered with lies. @reallyamerican.bsky.social, perhaps you should speak with the voters.

In the category of phrasing matters, I’ll correct this for the @washingtonpost.com and @jacobbogage.bsky.social:

“… after Democrats AND Republicans failed to reach a deal…”

This stuff DOES matter.

I’m not defending either.

In the past three weeks I have acquired an annual pass to Universal Orlando and purchased a pair of Crocs. Am I officially a Floridian now?

In other words, the big announcement was either performative, premature, half-baked, illegal, imprudent, or all of the above.

Please check your information before sharing it. This is inaccurate.

Have you seen “Death of a Unicorn?” I mean, they’re kinda scary.