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September is World Alzheimer’s Awareness month, so this news could not have come at a better time.  Yesterday, the National Institutes of Health and National Institute on Aging fulfilled a promise that director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, made at the Alzheimer’s Association advocacy forum in April: a commitment of an additional $45 million in funds to advance research.  The University of Florida Health researchers have ensured that a sizeable portion of these dollars are directed to the Sunshine State with…

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The editorial cartoon holds a cardinal spot in American political history, but is among the casualties in the rise of new, digital media.   No longer. Florida, meet Jason Payne, your new political cartoonist. Jason’s first illustration for Saint Petersblog and Context Florida portrayed the likely consequence of allowing Florida’s Prepaid Dental Health Program to sunset: a health plan capture of per-member per-month fees with little to ensure these dollars are spent on much needed kid’s dental services. And today,…

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Today on Context Florida, we’ve got some words worth heeding from Ben Kirby on how parental engagement matters for kids’ health choices; some ‘what’s up with this weather?’ and a unique solution for Florida transplants from Key West’s Linda Cunningham; a bit of measured pessimism and a call for restraint from Doug Clifton on South Florida’s building boom; and the fourth installment on black voting in Florida from Darryl Paulson, this one on the literacy test and the grandfather clause.…

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Health care dominated the conversation on today’s Context Florida, with opposing posts on aspects of Obamacare, and another describing the many benefits of team-based care. A final piece, from Darryl Paulson, brought the third installment in a six-part series on black voting in Florida. Daniel Tilson wrote on Gov. Rick Scott’s many efforts to undermine Obamacare, this time featuring the governor’s Monday letter to US congressional leaders sounding “the identity-theft alarm that only opponents of Obamacare seem to find in…

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Campaigns & Elections magazine published its list of the nation’s top consulting blogs to bookmark and visit, and among the eight that were chosen: Florida’s Steve Schale. Schale’s blog, hosted at steveschale.com, was lauded by C&E for its analysis of news and campaigns with a personal touch.  While Schale doesn’t update his site daily, when he does, expect a thorough, grounded and often data-rich analysis.   Schale is considered among the best regarded Democratic strategists in Florida, with his fingerprint on…

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Someone I love dearly told me it is not that he’s against higher standards, but rather that he really, really hates violations of 10th Amendment. Well, he can rest more easily tonight knowing that the 10th Amendment isn’t under attack by Common Core State Standards, no matter the folks who cry fire in the political theater. During a Tuesday morning media roundtable, the Foundation for Florida’s Future charted the logic behind the state’s adoption of these streamlined, elevated standards. Common…

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“Picture this,” writes Rebecca Grant in a column for The Hill blog. “You are flying combat air patrol near the South China Sea in the 2020s. Suddenly your GPS goes out. Your favorite datalink to other aircraft and ships floods with confusing signals. Your cockpit radar is a grey blur. The air operations center drops offline in a cyber attack.”  In this first-wave information attack, brought to you by cyberspace strikes, megawatt power jamming, fried satellite communications and disruption of…

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