House passes bill to prevent oil drilling in the Everglades

The company had proposed to drill an exploratory well about 11,800 feet below the surface, at a 5-acre site about 5 miles west of U.S. 27 and 10 miles south of Alligator Alley. The company’s expert testified that there was a 23 percent chance of finding oil, considered high by industry standards, and if oil were found, it could be possible to extract 180,000 to 10 million barrels. ... Read More

President Trump’s alarming campaign kickoff in Orlando | Editorial

* He lied when he claimed that “many, many” auto plants are being built in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida.” All but South Carolina are swing states, but no plants have been announced in North Carolina, Florida or Pennsylvania. Suppliers in Florida are expanding, but no cars are about to be built here. ... Read More

How to tell if a presidential candidate has a serious climate change plan | Opinion

To hedge against such uncertainties in the future, a serious climate plan would seek to generate as many emissions-reducing options with the potential to scale globally as possible. In the electricity sector, that means not limiting support to renewables or nuclear or fossil fuels with carbon capture, but instead exploring how and under what conditions each of these technologies, as well as others, might be made to work affordably. ... Read More

45 years after killing Fort Lauderdale cop, three men want to be freed from prison

One of the four thieves, later identified as then 21-year-old Alvin Bernard Ford, shot him twice in the chest and, when Ilyankoff was helpless on the ground, once in the head. He was quickly caught, along with 25-year-old George Angelo Decosta and 21-year-old Alvin Ray Lewis. The fourth robber, Henry Robinson, 26, was tracked down in Guatemala three months later. ... Read More

Why Indians Choose to Follow Jesus Despite Opposition

Christ’s message of love, forgiveness, peace and justice is too compelling to resist. When Prime Minister Modi and his cabinet assembled on May 30 to take their oath of office, nobody expected that a relatively unknown minister sworn in at the end of the ceremony would steal the show. Applause broke from the audience when Pratap Sarangi walked onto the stage. Earlier that day, a picture of him leaving the austere hut where he lives went viral, drawing praise for his modest... Read More

The Purpose of the World: To Become the Church

Paul on “good works”—and my replies to initial critiques of this series. Let me begin this essay by responding to some critiques of the series up to this point, and especially about last week’s essay, “The Church Does Not Exist for the Sake of the World.” While most readers seem appreciative, I expected pushback for the counterintuitive emphasis I’m trying to bring to bear in the series. Note that word—emphasis. The careful reader sees that I’m... Read More

HIV, Hep A, measles. CDC director shares his priority list of diseases to wipe out in Florida.

A. I don’t think there’s any question that will happen, but I don’t pretend to predict when. When I started treating men and women with HIV infection in the 1980s, my patients had less than a year survival. No one saw on the horizon that this would be a condition that you can live a natural lifetime. Who would have predicted that? Science has provided tools that can help with stigmatization and make it so you can no longer transmit HIV to another person. This is huge progress. I am... Read More