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Warming comes for Florida’s economy

Florida was the future. The weather’s balmy in winter, the beaches are divine and there’s no personal income tax. All that and a lower cost of living had set off a sizeable migration of companies from New York, Chicago and California. Between 2021 and 2023, Florida was the fastest-growing state. Now as a second monster hurricane in two weeks smashes the western coast, many Floridians have been turned into serial refugees. Florida is no stranger to the occasional big “blow,” but climate change may have completely rewritten the meteorological future, and it’s not sunny. We ...

Lots of frauds since Oct. 7, but also leaders

What began last Oct. 7 with the invasion of Israel by 6,000 Hamas gunmen bent on slaughtering Jews has reached the one-year mark, with Hezbollah, another heavily armed and genocidal enterprise, firing thousands of missiles at Israeli civilians. The left has largely whitewashed or defended Hamas’ and Hezbollah’s attempts at genocide while accusing their victims of committing one. This much is clear: All too many, professing to be “progressives,” have spent the past year preening for those who believe that the massacre of Israelis is fundamentally A-OK. Spineless or morally lost, ...

Demagoguery hurts hurricane relief efforts

An underwater arts district. Health-care workers and patients stranded on hospital rooftops. Isolated residents pointing mirrors at the sky to catch rescue helicopters’ attention. The tragic scenes from Hurricane Helene’s path of destruction are nothing short of heartbreaking. In the week and a half since it made landfall, subjecting coastlines across the Southeast to storm surges and downpours, the tempest struck forcefully where few expect such events: inland, high in the Blue Ridge mountains. Consequently, even “ climate haven ” cities such as Asheville, N.C., felt the ...

Black clergy speak out for Israel

On Monday, Oct. 7, my organization, CURE, Center for Urban Renewal and Education, co-hosted with Michigan Lighthouse Ministries a press conference with more than 50 pastors from across the State of Michigan, noting the atrocities committed last year by Hamas terrorists against Israeli citizens and expressing solidarity with the State of Israel. We chose a church in the state of Michigan for this program because Michigan is home to the largest Arab American population in the country. It is also home to Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American representative in the House of ...

Waiting rooms have become a wasteland

Waiting rooms have become a wasteland. I travel it with the same promised oasis in my hand, catching up on emails or scrolling through social media. However, I still like to peek up and look around to see who else might have drunk enough from the fountains that allow us to forget about the desert around us. As someone who lives in an actual desert and is underprivileged in melanin, trips to the dermatologist are part of the routine. After the cancer they found years ago didn’t redevelop, exams went from every six months to yearly. That’s enough time for a medical practice to get ...

Free speech in the crosshairs

The most consequential issue on the ballot this November is the fate of free speech: your ability to speak your mind. At former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally Saturday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk leaped on the stage and urged the nation to support Trump. It’s “the bedrock of democracy,” Musk said, warning that “the other side wants to take away your freedom of speech.” That’s true. Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, want government and its proxies to muzzle us, limiting what we can post on social media, and censuring whatever ...