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By DALE MADISON As someone who has served in the non-profit community from Gay Pride Events to HIV related organizations I have long wondered why no one in the community tried to introduce all of the area non-profits to each other so that each organization knows what services each group provides. Enter, “Our Fund.” When [...]

By CLIFF DUNN This weekend, Leonardo Di Caprio fans—not all of them teenage girls—and history buffs alike will mark the centennial anniversary of one of the most widely-known and depicted disasters in modern history, the sinking of RMS Titanic. I enjoyed the 1997 James Cameron film: I thought that it succeeded in capturing the gargantuan [...]

By ARLEN KEITH LEIGHT, PH.D. He’s gorgeous. Tall, thick dark hair, beautiful smile, great body. Everyone thinks he is so hot, and he’s totally into you. You think he’s great looking and a nice guy. In bed he can’t get enough of you, but you’re just not turned on. Your friends think you’re crazy for [...]

Your favorite virtue? Broadmindedness. Your favorite qualities in a person. Honesty and loyalty. Your chief characteristic. Ambition (although it is sometimes seen as “overzealousness” and being hard to work with). What you appreciate most in your friends. Truthfulness (although sometimes it hurts, and you wanna slap them upside the head!!). Your main fault. Overextending myself, [...]

By CLIFF DUNN “And when Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said… Thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers … And let them judge the people at all seasons: and [...]

Your favorite virtue. These days, I’d like to see more honesty in the world. Patience wouldn’t be bad either.   Your favorite qualities in a person. That’s hard to say. I am accepting of folks pretty much how they are. I don’t expect them to bend to my likings.   Your chief characteristic. I’d like [...]

By CLIFF DUNN  “First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they [...]

  President/CEO of Wilton Manors Main Street Your favorite virtue. Altruism. Tenacity.   Your favorite qualities in a person. Honesty, loyalty, and the ability to actually follow through on what they say.   Your chief characteristic. Kindness.   Your favorite occupation. Considering I’m currently a full-time volunteer, I’d have to say one in which I [...]

  By CLIFF DUNN The jury’s verdict last Friday in State of New Jersey vs. Dharun Ravi was foundational in many important ways, and gave me reason, for a change, to be grateful for the rational system of jury trials that was established under our Constitution. Having lived through the 1995 O.J. Simpson verdict, I [...]

During the 19th and early-20th Centuries, intellectuals and community leaders shared their ideas and thoughts in the form of a parlor game that spoke, truthfully, about the innermost them. This week,we speak CANDIDLY with Justin Flippen. Justin is a native South Floridian and the former Vice Mayor of Wilton Manors. He currently works for the [...]