What Christmas spirit is all about | Letters to the editor
A letter writer was moved by the article about Sun Sentinel staff writer Ben Crandell acting as Santa Claus for special needs students in Fort Lauderdale.
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They all said goodbye in the year 2025 | Steve Bousquet
Columnist Steve Bousquet reflects on some of those who left us in 2025.
‘Chip!’ peeks over the political horizon | Steve Bousquet
Columnist Steve Bousquet takes the measure of Rep. Chip LaMarca's political career in Broward, and what might be ahead for him — and us.
Her ties to ‘Alcatraz’ are no problem after all | Steve Bousquet
Columnist Steve Bousquet explores the Florida Senate's narrow support for a high-level state appointee who's also a major contractor at the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention camp and was on the Hope...
A DeSantis political appointee starts to squirm | Steve Bousquet
Columnist Steve Bousquet takes us to Tallahassee, where a well-connected appointee to the Florida Atlantic University board of trustees faces unwelcome questions at a Senate confirmation hearing.
County holding free-spending sheriff accountable | Steve Bousquet
Columnist Steve Bousquet dissects the simmering dispute between Broward's sheriff and the county commission over spending — and overspending.
R.I.P., ‘Howard from Broward’
Opinion Editor Steve Bousquet recalls a failed Broward marketing campaign from the '80s that was called "Howard from Broward." We're not making this up.
A property tax primer by a Broward expert | Steve Bousquet
Columnist Steve Bousquet writes about Broward County Property Appraiser Marty Kiar and his highly useful guidance to local officials on the subject of property taxes.
The highs and lows of a storied, sad political career | Steve Bousquet
Columnist Steve Bousquet writes about the life and death of Scott Cowan, who for most of two decades was an influential Broward political leader, until his world came crashing down...
A food emergency simmers in Florida | Steve Bousquet
Columnist Steve Bousquet looks at the food crisis for South Florida's neediest, and wonders: What are federal "contingency funds" for, if not for a time like this?