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Christmas Chronicle 2016
December 2016 Dear Friends and Family, Leonard Pitts This will be the most un-Christmas-like letter you will ever receive. Because, sorry...
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Dec 19, 20167 min read
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Command Performance
This is a bit late, but I have to talk about the great concert I heard Saturday night (Dec. 10) in Lake Worth. The Symphonic Band of the...
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Dec 15, 20162 min read
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Move over, men.
I found out Thursday night that it’s no longer a man’s world. And I was pretty happy about it. The Palm Beach County chapter of the...
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Dec 12, 20162 min read
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Open Letter to Red State Electors
Dear Elector, President-Elect Donald Trump Our country is on the verge of succumbing to a real threat to our democratic system of...
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Dec 3, 20164 min read
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Facebook Feedback
Donald Trump An acquaintance opined on Facebook recently that Donald Trump’s presidency would bring about compliance with the...
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Nov 14, 20164 min read
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Black Votes Matter
Hillary Clinton A big factor in whether, or by how much, Hillary Clinton wins the presidential election Tuesday is black voter turnout....
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Nov 5, 20165 min read
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The Would-Be Dictator
Donald-Trump This presidential election contest is getting scarier by the day. Not just because of the behavior of one of the candidates,...
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Oct 15, 20165 min read
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Freebie
In a couple of hours, the Amazon Kindle version of my book MURDER IN PALM BEACH: The Homicide That Never Died, will be available FREE for...
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Oct 9, 20162 min read
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Getting a Kick out of You
The way it works, I give a signed, paperback copy of my book to anybody who donates $20. I sign and ship the book personally to the...
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Sep 30, 20161 min read
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Plumbing a Political Quandary
Donald Trump Diehard supporters of Donald Trump for the presidency are beyond persuasion that he would be disastrous for the country. He...
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Sep 21, 20165 min read
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Book It.
Hear ye, hear ye! Tomorrow – woops, we’re almost there – you can, if you have a Kindle or compatible device, get my current book for...
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Sep 19, 20162 min read
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Stan Kenton Redux
Dennis Noday Stan Kenton had to be smiling in his grave last Tuesday when the Dennis Noday & Lee Harris Superband filled a room at the...
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Sep 11, 20162 min read
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Autism and Awful Journalism
Leonard Pitts Jr. A week or so ago, I sent an email to the Miami Herald’s Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr., decrying...
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Sep 8, 20164 min read
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Freeebook, i.e., Free ebook
You might have heard something on the grapevine about a book called MURDER IN PALM BEACH: The Homicide That Never Died making the rounds...
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Sep 7, 20162 min read
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Privatization Prologues
Pat Beall Last week, two events that will alter the social landscape in America made newspaper (there are some left) headlines. One was...
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Aug 23, 20164 min read
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Good Bice Books
Bice Ristorante A website on Google says Bice most often is used as a female name in Italy, and pronounced bicha. In English, a similar...
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Aug 16, 20162 min read
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State of Anomie
M. William Phelps At the South Florida Book Festival on Saturday, M. William Phelps, a New York Times bestselling author of about 30...
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Jul 27, 20163 min read
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Fluoridation Flimflam
“Fluoride vote acknowledges passion, yields to science.” Thus read the headline of an editorial in the Palm Beach Post after the...
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Jul 15, 20165 min read
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If a Tree Falls in a Forest …
Mike Norris Jazz Orchestra Get this. The Mike Norris Jazz Orchestra played without cover charge Monday at the American Rock Bar & Grill...
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Jun 30, 20162 min read
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A Real Blast
Stan Kenton One of the finest entertainment-and-dining experiences I’ve ever had occurred Monday night at the American Rock Bar & Grill...
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Jun 22, 20162 min read
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