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• Chan Lowe: The John Goodman case

  For those who doubt that you get as much justice as you can afford under the American system, just look at the case of Palm Beach County’s polo playboy, John Goodman. The heir to a large fortune was driving home drunk one night and ran a stop sign, killing a [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Choosing a new Pope

  I’m not a Catholic woman, but Mrs. Lowe Down is, and she’s with me on this: The Church wouldn’t have nearly as many institutional problems if women had more of a leadership role in its governance. [...]
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• Chan Lowe: The Sequester

  It’s easy to rail about big government in the abstract. The rules change, though, when policy breaks out of the Beltway and reaches down to kick the little guy upside the head. The fiscal conservatives in Congress are slapping each other on the back right now for holding out on [...]
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• Scripps...a blockbuster biotech blunder

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• Chan Lowe: Scripps Florida, ten years later

  I remember the big ruckus ten years ago. Scripps Research Institute, the powerhouse lab from La Jolla, California, was thinking of opening a branch here in South Florida. It was going to be the catalyst for a new biotech-based economy that would free us from the boom-and-bust cycles of development [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Rick Scott's reversal on expanding Medicaid

  Rick Scott ran for governor in 2010 as the tea party-backed candidate. At that time, the former health care executive railed against Obamacare as the worst kind of government overreach. [...]
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• Chan Lowe: The Harlem Shake

  A colleague told me that at the height of the “Harlem Shake” craze last week, some 4,000 homemade versions per day were being uploaded onto Youtube. Once you get past the notion that had I written the above sentence ten years ago, it might as well have been in Martian, [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Herman Cain hired by Fox News

  It’s hard to say who provided the best cartooning material during the 2012 Republican primaries. The lunatic fringe voters, the ones who turn out for these events, dutifully produced a rich, colorful succession of front runners; Bachmann, Gingrich, Santorum, Perry, Paul, Trump and—one of my favorites—Herman Cain. [...]
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• Watch Gary and Chan's newest video!

  Catch our latest toe thrust into the waters of the new journalism—Gary and I stage a prison brawl about FAU's sale of naming rights for its new stadium to a private prison firm. [...]
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• Chan Lowe: FAU sells stadium naming rights to a prison company

  The grand old names—the ones we gave to places before somebody invented “naming rights” for sports venues—can still stir the American spirit with their roughhewn poetry: Camden Yards, Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium, Candlestick Park, Three Rivers Stadium, the Coliseum. [...]
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