Darryl Owens: Guns Stolen From Police Cars A ‘Disturbing Pattern’
• Orlando Sentinel editorial writer and columnist Darryl Owens says recent gun thefts from police cars are part of a disturbing pattern.
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• Orlando Sentinel editorial writer and columnist Darryl Owens says recent gun thefts from police cars are part of a disturbing pattern.
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• Orlando Sentinel columnist and editorial writer Darryl Owens says confederate symbols belong in a museum. He examines their meaning, past and present, starting with the controversy brewing over one now standing in downtown Orlando.
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• New research says high school classes should start later than Orange County’s 7:15am to help combat dangerous sleep deprivation in teens. So Orange County School Board Chair Bill Sublette has proposed delaying high school start times by 45 minutes or so. The idea doesn’t seem popular with other board members, but Darryl Owens says it’s time to wake up to the benefits of Sublette’s proposal.
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• Deadly encounters across the country involving black men and police have spurred a diverse group of Central Florida faith leaders to band together and help different communities better understand each other. Darryl Owens talks about the public forum he’s hosting with faith leaders on the topic of race.
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• Central Florida seems ready to shed its reputation for criminalizing homelessness. That’s according to Orlando Sentinel columnist and editorial writer Darryl Owens. He points to three major announcements in the last two weeks that seem to suggest a new approach to dealing with homelessness.
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• Three former Florida A & M University band members were convicted of manslaughter and felony hazing in the November 2011 death of fellow “Marching 100” member Robert Champion. Benjamin McNamee, Aaron Golson, and Darryl Cearnel are the last of the dozen-plus defendants to be sentenced, but Darryl Owens says there’s much more to the story.
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• After more than a year of wrangling, Orange County commissioners cleared the way to build a new relief high school in the Windermere rural settlement. This week, Darryl Owens looks at what it took to reach the construction compromise, and what might happen next.
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