Steven Kurlander

A reader of this column called me the other day from a city park, where he usually goes once or twice a week to take a break from his busy business to eat lunch and regroup.

He was pretty upset. Nearby, he said, a Palm Beach County worker was parked...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is on the verge of implementing stricter privacy rules under The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) that will result in expanded and more stringent privacy and security requirements in the health and insurance industries and will allow...

Last weekend, Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng arrived in New York City with his wife and children to begin a new life in the United States.

Chen is a blind, self-taught lawyer who served four years in prison and remained under house arrest upon his release for...

Florida parents and educators got some really bad news recently when the results of the 2012 FCAT writing tests were released by state education officials.

This year, only 27 percent of third graders got a passing grade of 4 out of 6 on this year's exam, compared to...

At the end of the 1980 campaign, Republican Jacob Javits of New York, a four-term Senator, came to my law school to deliver a foreign-policy speech to the students and faculty.

Javits was a moving force in New York politics and a powerful player in the Senate,...

Earlier this week, under the symbolic backdrop of the Freedom Tower in Miami, Governor Rick Scott signed a bill that prohibits the state of Florida and local governments from negotiating $1 million-plus contracts with firms that do business in Cuba or Syria.

It's modeled after a prior bill...

My son Aaron is attending NYU and has been working his way through school part-time as a salesperson at a high-end boutique clothing store in fashionable SoHo.

Aaron found the job about a year ago and has been averaging a good 20-25 hours a week, which allowed...

Last Thursday night, I was watching Game 7 of the NHL Ranger-Ottawa playoff series when I got a phone call from a friend.

"Hey, O'Reilly just tore you up," said my friend. "He had your name posted up on the screen -- and he even implied you were a liberal!"

We've been hearing a lot lately from President Obama and fellow Democrats about the GOP prosecuting a "war on women" in this country.

The allegation is the latest round of an effective political strategy of distraction by the White House that promotes diverting attention away from the moribund economy and...

Recently, Bill O'Reilly of Fox News and other conservative pundits criticized Vice President Joe Biden for his lack of charitable giving, based on the figures reported on Biden's 2010 income tax return.

This attack was made within the context of the push by Biden for the implementation of the Buffett...

Last week, something unusual happened in regard to a number of judicial races in Palm Beach County, Fla. -- some lawyers had the nerve of filing to run against four sitting judges in the upcoming 2012 elections.

This election year, there will be four contested races for...

The Canadian government recently announced that the Royal Canadian Mint would soon stop producing that country's penny and begin taking it out of circulation.

The elimination of the Canadian penny will affect only cash transactions, which will now be figured in increments of five cents in Canada -- rounding off...

A recent episode of Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice featured two teams of famous personalities designing and promoting an interactive segment and producing a "Walk with Walgreens" starter kit to be distributed nationwide to promote the drug company's walking fitness program.

For three hours, viewers watched as the...

Obama 2012 invaded South Florida in a big way this week.

Sandwiched between fundraisers at mega-rich supporters' homes, which raised over $2 million in contributions, President Obama gave an exceptional stump speech in Boca Raton calling for increased taxation of the wealthy to a packed arena of FAU students, faculty,...

On Saturday night, I took my family to watch the first of what I hope to be many minor league baseball games this year at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, which is the home of two Class A clubs, Miami's Jupiter Hammerheads and St. Louis' Palm Beach Cardinals.

To...

Last Sunday night at Sun Life Stadium, I attended Wrestlemania 2012 with my wife and 13-year-old daughter.

To be honest, I was not thrilled at all about shleping an hour down and back on a Sunday night to watch the WWE event -- usually I can't endure watching more than...

I am very frustrated. My very expensive Chinese-made washing machine hasn't worked right for a long time. Now it is leaking water.

When my wife and I bought it a few years back, money was no object. We paid a small fortune for the heavy-duty washer and bought the three-year...

When asked last Sunday on Fox News Sunday whether he would consider being picked as the Republican's vice presidential candidate, Paul Ryan did not reject the notion outright like he did when his name was being touted last year as a possible presidential candidate.

"I would have to consider it,"...

The last few weeks have not been very good for the Obama administration's conduct of the war in Afghanistan.

First, there was the incident when our soldiers mistakenly burned a number of Qurans (the Islamic holy book) and other holy Islamic texts, which resulted in days of violent rioting across...

"To get clear water, one must go to the source." French Proverb

If you ever want to pick a fight with someone who lives or has resided in New York City, all you have to say to them is that the bagels or the pizza is better...