Fred Grimm

Nothing quite violates my reverie like a sudden encounter with a fast-coming e-scooter on a busy sidewalk.

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…

Had Arthur McDuffie survived the gang attack that left him with five skull fractures, he might have spoken of the need for the kind of civilian oversight panels the Florida Legislature has sabotaged.

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…

We don't give a damn about avian flu in Florida. We abide by MAGA principles of public health.

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

So long. Not that it hasn't been fun chronicling Florida's descent into a waterlogged, python-infested, uninsurable, hurricane-pummeled, book-banning, gay-bashing authoritarian dystopia, but I'm outta here.

So long. Not that it hasn't been fun chronicling Florida's descent into a waterlogged, python-infested, uninsurable, hurricane-pummeled, book-banning, gay-bashing authoritarian dystopia, but I'm outta here.