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From the editorial board of the Orlando Sentinel: Orlando’s first gay nightclub, The Palace Club, opened the same year as the Stonewall riots. When Disney’s Magic Kingdom opened its gates, the City Beautiful took on added allure as a safer — though still not safe — space for non-heterosexual Americans to love and live their lives. It still took decades …

From the editorial board of the Orlando Sentinel: Florida’s summer of suffering was also a summer of silence for Ron DeSantis. The governor had nearly nothing to say about his state’s lengthy run as No. 1 in the nation in COVID cases, No. 1 in hospitalizations and No. 1 in deaths. Instead, the governor held almost daily news conferences intended …

From the editorial board of the Orlando Sentinel: If you were one of the 1.1. million followers of DeSantis’ Twitter account, you would have little way of knowing — based on his tweets from July 1, around the time the outbreak began, through Wednesday — that COVID cases, hospitalizations and deaths were surging in Florida. DeSantis tweeted about 130 times …

From the editorial board of the Orlando Sentinel: We’ve never seen the likes of it before in American history. A mob, incited by a president, stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as the House and Senate convened to read, debate and certify the election of a new president. Decked out in their Donald Trump gear and waving Trump flags, the …

From the editorial board of the Orlando Sentinel: We’re particularly appalled — though not surprised — by the appointment of Paula White. Not because she’s a conservative but because of her naked use of religion as a weapon. She’s trying to frighten believers with apocalyptic consequences if they don’t get in line behind this president. Unfortunately, the national attention on …

From the editorial board of the Orlando Sentinel: Donald Trump is in Orlando to announce the kickoff of his re-election campaign. We’re here to announce our endorsement for president in 2020, or, at least, who we’re not endorsing: Donald Trump. Some readers will wonder how we could possibly eliminate a candidate so far before an election, and before knowing the …

The Orlando Sentinel today published a stark front page free of the usual jumble of news items. Instead, this editorial appears: Words cannot adequately convey the depth of the horror and grief in Central Florida in the wake of what now ranks as the worst mass shooting in American history. Orlando now tragically sits atop a list of infamy, sharing …