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The VA And IRS   By Rick Beottger   Acronyms everyone knows—the Veterans Administration and Internal Revenue Service. Especially now, as both are being crucified …

Infinite But Maybe Not Forever   By Christina Oxenberg   In the Hamptons one summer, Anna and I lucked upon a spare house. Don’t ask! …

‘Love And Terror’   By Mark Howell   It’s amazing how you can move to a faraway island and meet up with someone you haven’t …

ARMCHAIR COMMENT Weller gets 4th win on the 4th BY RALPH MORROW MANAGING EDITOR Key West grad Blayne Weller, after starting the baseball season as …

Middle Class, R.I.P.   By Rick Boettger   The School Board recently voted 4-1 to keep outsourcing the district’s maintenance workers. This is a terrible …

Weekend Indulgence – Shrimp Po’ Boys   By Kerry Shelby   I try to eat light, healthy dishes during the week, but on weekends I …

If You Have Joy, You Have It All   By Mark Howell   Key West, a friend tells me, is a unicum. I didn’t know …

Puff Mommy   By Christina Oxenberg   I bought a jasmine tree, stout and abundant with bushy foliage and tiny white flowers which I was …

Friends Who’d Never Met Reunited At Last   By Mark Howell   “The hot afternoon sun was beating down mercilessly on those people foolish enough …

Pork Ribs With Spicy Mango Grilling Sauce   By Kerry Shelby   There are three definite and unfailing signs of early summer in Key West …

The Comforts Of Home Roasting A Chicken   By Kerry Shelby   Ask chefs what they cook for themselves on that rare and precious day …

Fun With Firearms   By Mark Howell   “Offhandedly” is a gun term, meaning shooting a rifle or pistol without aiming and without premeditation.

Snowden And The FDLE   By Rick Boettger   Edward Snowden exposed our federal mass spying program over a year ago. He saw our National …

Three Classic Summer Cocktails   By Kerry Shelby   It’s summertime and our thoughts immediately turn to…summer cocktails! Summer calls for light, crisp, ice-cold coolers …

Who’s Conning Whom?   By Mark Howell   Once upon a time we asked a famous Key West writer and film director, who has long …

Mimi A Pseudonym, Well Over 60   By Susan Mitchell   After earning a BA in Liberal Arts from Indiana University and being one semester …

ARMCHAIR COMMENT Ratcliff’s Houston team advances to Super Regionals BY RALPH MORROW While every team from Florida has been eliminated from the College Baseball World …

Organized Crime   By Rick Boettger   Who will win the war of truth about the death of Charles Eimers at the hands of the …

Tuna Two Ways   By Kerry Shelby   From late fall to early summer, tuna move into the warm waters off Key West. The majority …

Riding The Rails   By Mark Howell   Yours truly, author of this column, once collaborated on a series of stories with Mark A. Praught …