Fred Grimm

Florida’s cattlemen and their allies in the Legislature say a move to ban cultured meat is all about “consumer safety,” writes columnist Fred Grimm. But really, it’s about n…

The thinly veiled racism of the state government’s battle against diversity and critical race theory has run up against the overt racism of supporters of Republican legislators’ bill to…

From cocaine-addled bears to children’s literature, people of the future may be confused at what the Floridians of the 2020s were apparently afraid of, writes columnist 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…

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…

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…