Don Gaetz
Tallahassee Democrat
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Past articles by Don:
Amendment 12 is important for Florida government ethics
If approved by the voters, Amendment 12 would establish in Florida the nation’s highest, toughest ethical standards for public officers. → Read More
Gaetz: So who should run Florida elections?
If you get involved in this political stuff, be warned: you may be branded a shameless extrovert and God help you if you’re practicing nepotism. → Read More
Gaetz: A Yankee surrenders to the sittin’ porch
I am a Yankee, my mother-in-law insists on reminding me, but I am getting past it. → Read More
Belly up to the trough, it's honest graft: Gaetz
As the Statewide Grand Jury pointed out in its indictment of local corruption, gray borderland exists between ethically right and legally wrong. → Read More
Why not two statues on Palafox Street?: Gaetz
This popular perversion of applying what we are sure of today to what our forbearers struggled with centuries ago isn’t history, it’s hogwash. → Read More
Sidelights of Irma: Heroes, gougers and clothing optional: Gaetz
Disasters intensify the human condition. Those of us who are good become very, very good and those who are bad turn positively horrid. → Read More
Upside of the world's nastiest neighborhood: Gaetz
Not that long ago missiles landed in the heart of Jerusalem. Every Israeli knows it will happen again. Not if, but when. → Read More
Evers was man’s man, tough opponent, solid friend: Gaetz
Physically fearless and morally outraged at waste, mismanagement and poor conditions in Corrections, Evers pushed aggressive reforms through Senate → Read More
Gaetz: Welcome home, O.J. Fla. is your kind of place
This is a story that could make for a “Fargo”-type miniseries. But it isn’t set in the tundra of the upper Midwest. This story is about us right here in Northwest Florida – about sex, suspicion, money, greed, g → Read More
Gaetz: And now, the next governor of Florida...
If 2018 is a year for warm-not-hot, reasonable, comfortable, run-toward-the-middle candidates, bet the farm on Adam Putnam and Gwen Graham. That’s the safe play. → Read More
Gaetz: “Why don’t these damn kids know anything?”
Graham thinks our children shouldn’t graduate without knowing the basics of how their government → Read More
Gaetz: Can oil rigs and lionfish bring us together?
The Department of the Interior, which cannot be called beautiful or cute like the lionfish, is or was, maybe still is, in the hands of idiots. → Read More
Gaetz: No pampered posteriors got hit when door shut
Celebrities shouldn’t confuse the right to speak with the privilege of being taken seriously. → Read More
Gaetz: A triumphant week for Northwest Florida
The Florida Legislature stopped itself from creating another oil spill disaster this week. → Read More
Gaetz: Why can’t Grandma make it on $35 a month?
Lucy Kennedy had planned for days what she would wear when the “two important men” came to the nursing home. → Read More