In January, the FTC reported that nearly 37,000 consumers victimized by Simple Health Plans were paying $6.3 million in monthly premiums. Between December and February alone, plans distributor Health Insurance Innovations charged consumers 165,798 times, totaling about $14.6 million, for products purchased through Simple Health Plans. ... Read More
Magic City Casino wants to make Miami’s nickname go ‘poof’ from other company names
He said the name dates back to Henry Flagler, the pioneering developer and railroad baron, who once asked a writer to pen a magazine story to help woo northerners to the swampy, mosquito-ridden region under development. It was the article that first referred to Miami as the “Magic City,” although the name was believed to have been “borrowed” from Birmingham, which called itself the Magic City of the South. ... Read More
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ arrogant abuse of political power | Editorial
House Bill 5 is a spiteful, nakedly partisan attempt to hobble, confuse and complicate the citizen petition-gathering process. It is no coincidence that it comes in the face of petitions that are circulating to, among other things, raise the minimum wage, outlaw assault weapons and revitalize democracy in Florida with open primary elections. ... Read More
Will Southern Baptists’ Political Truce Last Through 2020?
After a polarizing presidential election in 2016, evangelicals rethink their discourse and engagement. Unlike its tense annual meetings over the last few years, when partisan allegiances shook up the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), leaders at this week’s gathering offered broad encouragement to transcend political divides, while the messengers rallied together to condemn sexual abuse. The abuse issue has offered Southern Baptists a common enemy, in contrast to some of the infighting... Read More
Are Guns Inherently Evil?
Shane Claiborne and Michael Martin envision a future without firearms. Should believers rally to their cause? Someone, somewhere in America will be the victim of gun violence today. Mass shootings have become part of our routine national experience. What should be done with guns? That, essentially, is the question animating a new book from Shane Claiborne and Michael Martin, Beating Guns: Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence. Claiborne and Martin argue that that guns should be destroyed... Read More
Oh, the Places We’ll Stay
In a world that promises liberation from the limits of place, we are called to be rooted disciples. My favorite house we owned started out a salmon-pink bank-owned foreclosure on the corner of 800 East and 900 South in Salt Lake City, Utah. When we sold that house to move to the California suburbs six years later, my husband had refinished floors, built me bookcases along the stairs, knocked down a wall to make a bedroom, and we’d painted nearly every wall in the house (the salmon pink... Read More
Praying for Patients Is Common, But Comes With Legal Risk
Most healthcare workers want to offer spiritual care if the sick are open to it—but doing so cost a Pentecostal nurse in the UK her job. A British nurse named Sarah Kuteh was fired from the hospital where she had worked for nearly a decade because she spoke with patients about her faith, passed out Bibles, and sang hymns on the job. Last month, a UK court rejected Kuteh’s most recent appeal. “The Respondent employer did not have a blanket ban on religious speech at the... Read More
There’s a giant dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico — thanks in large part to pollution from Chicago
Just off the coast of Louisiana, where the Mississippi River lets out into the Gulf of Mexico, an enormous algae bloom, fueled by fertilizer from Midwestern farm fields and urban sewage, creates an area so devoid of oxygen it’s uninhabitable to most marine life every summer. Nutrients like nitrogen… ... Read More
Driverless big rigs could be hitting Florida highways next year. Are you ready, good buddy?
Asked how Starsky Robotics plans to assure Floridians of the safety of the company’s driverless trucks, Starsky founder and CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher said only that the company, founded in 2016, has been working with all relevant authorities, including the Florida Department of Transportation, Florida Highway Patrol, the Florida Turnpike Authority, and those agencies’ federal counterparts. ... Read More
Say goodbye to BB&T Center — ‘Truist’ will soon be name for home of Panthers and concerts in Sunrise
The two regional banking corporations announced Wednesday they’ll re-brand under the name Truist Financial. The merger hasn’t been finalized, so there’s no timetable yet for when the BB&T Center will undergo the name change — or what the full name will be. The merger is scheduled to be completed in the third or fourth quarter, meaning it’s probable it will remain the BB&T Center through the next NHL season. ... Read More