Fred Grimm

Vaccine hesitancy has spread from COVID misinformation campaigns, including that waged by the state’s own surgeon general, to encompass vaccines in general, writes columnist Fred Grimm. Child…

Perhaps, writes columnist Fred Grimm, billboards should be erected at the Georgia state line, alerting anyone who intends to settle in the Free State of Florida that they should bring their own hou…

By 1992, spring break in Fort Lauderdale was dead. Columnist Fred Grimm knows; he wrote the epitaph. But with Miami Beach’s crackdown, those spring breakers have to go somewhere …

The Legislature’s new ban on public sleeping “targets urban homelessness without bothering with the tangle of social, economic, legal and mental health pathologies that have left 31,000…

Especially in touristy areas like South Florida, the use of e-scooters, e-bikes and other “micromobility” vehicles has skyrocketed in recent years, writes columnist Fred Grimm — and so …

Several leading lights of the far-right have blamed diversity, equity and inclusion for the Key Bridge collapse, writes columnist Fred Grimm. Of course, that’s to be expected given that they …

“Homeowner insurance rates have always been about risks, vulnerabilities and the heft of insured losses from previous storms,” writes columnist Fred Grimm. “But lately, climate ch…

A new state law requires appointments to police oversight boards to be made by police chiefs or county sheriffs and bans the boards from investigating police misconduct. If police hadn’t beat…

All the rhetoric dismissing COVID as “just the flu” even as it killed more than 1.1 million Americans has left us less capable of handling the next epidemic, writes columnist Fred Grimm…

After 56 years covering the underbelly of America, Fred Grimm is hanging up his pen.