Chan Lowe

  • Chan Lowe: Hurricane season ends

    The words coming out of the character on the left’s mouth carry a particular sting for Floridians, because that’s what we used to hear from folks up north whenever we complained about our windstorm insurance rates. [...]
  • Chan Lowe: Fiscal cliff

    I detest the term, “fiscal cliff.” I am repelled by the analogy, if that’s what it is. I swore to myself that I would not stoop to the level of using the “cliff” visual in a cartoon. [...]
  • Chan Lowe: A1A destruction and reconstruction

    There are a couple of ways to think about the issue of rebuilding the storied Florida State Road A1A, which suffered near-obliteration in some places thanks to the ravages of Hurricane Sandy. [...]
  • Chan Lowe: Republicans, taxes and Norquist

    The Occupy movement was vilified in its time because its goals appeared to be incoherent. Nobody could encapsulate in a bumper-sticker slogan what its adherents stood for, so it was dismissed as a tantrum thrown by a self-indulgent bunch of spoiled cranks. [...]
  • Chan Lowe: The state sex survey

    The origins of the Florida sex questionnaire are murky. Gov. Scott’s office is pointing the finger at his surgeon general, or a former surgeon general, and the current surgeon general is ducking and weaving to evade responsibility while simultaneously trying to protect the governor. What we’re getting here is more [...]
  • Chan Lowe: Marco Rubio hits the road

    The Republican Party has a long way to go in its campaign to win the hearts of Latino voters in time for the 2016 elections. It has to tread a careful path, because for every alteration it makes to its hardline immigration policy in order to attract a Hispanic, it [...]
  • Chan Lowe: Allen West calls a cease-fire

    He’s gone for the moment, but certainly not forgotten. [...]
  • Chan Lowe: A Romney Thanksgiving

    Confucius, or one of those other wise guys, said something like this: “Sometimes, the best gift is not getting what you wanted.” [...]
  • Chan Lowe: Thanksgiving 2012

    When the Pilgrims set sail from Leiden back in the early 17 th century, if any of them had ever heard of China it was probably from fantastical tales spun by storytellers . After a less-than-relaxing cruise, they managed to disembark in the New World where they planted some crops, [...]
  • Chan Lowe: The Gaza nightmare

    As Golda Meir said in 1957, “Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”


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