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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Friday, March 14, 2025

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The Coolness Of Old Florida

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BY FROMA HARROP LAKE WORTH, FL – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s recent dig that Florida is “for the old people” cut locals here to the quick. “Florida’s not cool to a 20-year-old, and it has to be,” retail executive Larry Levine told the Economic Council of Palm Beach County. His own children have gone west. Levine’s analysis is only half right. And under it lies a crashing irony. Florida’s future depends not on replacing old […]

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Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.