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As homeowners in Florida, we have two choices for property insurance – to be or not to be. If our home is paid off, we are not required to hold insurance on it. Many opt for this approach because of the skyrocketing cost of insurance. Most of us though are on the other side of ownership.…

So, you want to cut property taxes? What a fantastic idea! Wait, what exactly do property taxes pay for? Roughly half of property taxes pay for education, and the rest covers roads, police, fire, libraries, waste management, parks and trails. So, by cutting property taxes, we would be cutting these services, right? This November the…

We are travelers from the Bering Land Bridge with names like Cherokee, Seminole, Hopi, and Navajo. We are settlers from England and Spain in search of religious freedom. We are immigrants from Ireland and Italy, from China and Japan, from Syria and Iran searching for a better life for our children and grandchildren. We are…

Dear America! If you are looking for someone to blow out the candles for your 250th birthday celebration, look no farther than the 342 million of us who call America our home. The last time we were in support of anything was right after 911. We had a common enemy. We were unified. We listened…

Cucumbers are easy to grow in the spring. String beans and peas are good to grow in the Florida soil. Now that the threat of a freeze is over, it is time to put your spring crops into the ground. Seeds as well as seedlings will do the trick. Here are a few of the spring favorites…

The best war is the one that never happens.” —  Sun TzuA new coffee shop opens up across the street from an established one. There are hand grenade insults thrown at each shop from customers showing their team support. This fire fight of words summons a war of best coffee on the block. Online posts ignite into…

Who takes responsibility for our country, our constitution, our three branches of government, even our president? WE do. Do WE point the finger at our governor because Florida is so expensive for actual Floridians to live here? Are our county commissioners to blame for our roads not being maintained? Do WE fault our city mayor…

On the very streets that Americans were exercising their first and second amendment rights, our sister and brother were killed by our own government. This is an undisputed fact and there are two camps of reasoning which have evolved. Both are equally sick. The first group condones and justifies our government’s actions. The second flatly…

Two hundred years ago, everyone owned a leather bucket for one purpose only – to put out fires. Back then we were all volunteer firefighters and if our neighbor’s home went up in flames, the community came together. We did not have a tax funded fire department, yet we did have those who came together…

As an economic system based on the premise of individuals and companies owning the means and production of goods and services, capitalism is the primary structure of our country. We are driven for the acquisition of money, yet money is not the win all. What money brings to us is what drives us, and it all…