I’m a huge fan of the arts. My wife and I sometimes lament that we moved from a larger, culturally diverse city to come to Polk County, but then I get to thinking. A week or so ago, I attended a staged reading of the musical HAIR at Theatre Winter Haven, this past weekend I [...]
UPDATE: Ask and you shall receive! From a helpful commenter, presumably related to the Gardens’ PR firm: With only a little more than three weeks having passed since work started, I can assure you that the modifications are numerous behind those fences. You’ll be pleasantly surprised. Consider my skeptical look to have melted away into a [...]
UPDATE: I got an e-mail from the trial lawyer’s section of the Florida Bar that contains an endorsement of these reforms by the chief judge of the twelfth circuit. So it appears that this is at least partly driven by a desire by judges for more control over their files. I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment, [...]
March is guardian ad litem month in the state of Florida. I am a guardian ad litem volunteer. I consider being a GAL a part of who I am and I can’t imagine a better way for me to make a real difference in the world. Today, I had the pleasure of seeing my case [...]
I want to reflect on a recent Supreme Court decision as well as recommend a really great book. The recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Pleasant Grove City v. Summum addresses the question of “whether the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment entitles a private group to insist that a municipality permit [...]