How the Florida Holocaust Memorial in Tallahassee came to be | Commentary
Former state Sen. Eleanor Sobel recounts the decade-long process of creating a Holocaust memorial in the Florida state capitol.
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Lax home-school rules leave children vulnerable to abuse | Opinion
Former Broward County School Board member and state Sen. Eleanor Sobel writes that horrific recent cases of abuse that were carried out on children supposedly being home-schooled should push the...
Setting the record straight on School Safety Act of 2013 | Eleanor Sobel
I wish I had a crystal ball that accurately predicted the future. What I know is that success depends on a team rowing in the same direction, whether in government,...
A potentially dangerous option that would generate another kind of pill mill epidemic| Opinion
As a former state senator and chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Children, Families and Elder Affairs and as a member of the Statewide Drug Policy Advisory Council, I am...
Medicaid expansion needed in Zika fight
The Florida Department of Health recently confirmed the first case of microcephaly in an infant born in Florida. Microcephaly causes infants to be born with malformed, small heads, and is...
Romney-Ryan are devastating for women’s individual rights
For the first time in decades, women again find themselves having to defend their individual and most personal rights. Women's issues laid to rest years ago have re-emerged as the...
The TB outbreak and future care
During the past month, we learned about an outbreak of tuberculosis cases in the Jacksonville area going back to 2008. Newspapers and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported that...