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Today on Context Florida: Selma & LeRoy Collins, voting rights, honeybees and educational icebergs

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Today on Context Florida: State troopers, sheriff’s deputies savagely attacked voting rights marchers at Selma, Ala., with clubs, tear gas and cattle prods on March 7, 1965; Martin Dyckman says two great Americans rushed to the city to try to take command of the perilous situation. One was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., determined to lead a second march — regardless of the consequences — two days later. The other was former Florida Gov. LeRoy Collins, President Lyndon Johnson’s civil rights…

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Lisa Wheeler-Brown nabs backing from Ken Welch

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Pinellas County Commissioner Ken Welch has endorsed Lisa Wheeler-Brown for St. Peteresburg City Council. “Lisa has the passion and character to serve. We have many issues that Pinellas County and the city of St. Pete will need to work together on, including the many aspects of the Redevelopment Plan being developed for the South St. Petersburg Community Redevelopment Area (CRA),” Welch said. Wheeler-Brown is running to succeed District 7 incumbent Wengay Newton. Newton is not seeking re-election because of term…

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Guido Maniscalco & Jackie Toledo fight for momentum in Tampa City Council race

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Guido Maniscalco was on the campaign trail Sunday morning — just not that early. The change in Daylight Saving Time meant that the 30-year-old Democrat made sure he didn’t alienate potential voters by knocking on doors before noon. He was out and about, though, with more volunteers than ever to help him. He’s been given a second life but has a little more than two weeks to close his 17-percentage point gap behind Jackie Toledo. His 38-year-old opponent came in first…

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Some hospitals lose, some win under possible LIP revamp

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Behind the scenes of a looming budget stalemate it turns out Florida and officials of the federal government are negotiating a revamped funding formula for hospitals that could cause a dramatic change of fortune for them. Florida has already been told it won’t receive the more than $1 billion in federal aid it has been getting as part of the Low Income Pool (LIP) program. The program is a pot of supplemental Medicaid dollars, mostly money collected from local taxpayers…

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Karl Nurse in D.C. shopping for aid programs start-up money

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Longtime City Councilman Karl Nurse will represent St. Petersburg at the National League of Cities meeting Monday and Tuesday in Washington, D.C. He has no  specific goals in mind, but hopes to find possible pilot programs to help families that would be funded through various foundations. Nurse has been successful in doing this before. “Several years ago, I brought back the ‘Bank on St. Pete,’” Nurse said. That program pushes cities to promote credit union-type banking systems to steer residents…

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Beekeepers, stung by 2014 veto, try again for research site

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Florida’s beekeepers say honey bees play a sweet role in agriculture and the economy but they need help — and state funding — to maintain a healthy population. The Florida State Beekeepers Association is requesting $3.5 million for an apiary research center at the University of Florida. Florida is the third largest honey-producing state, with a reported crop value of $22.7 million in 2013, according to the university. The state has about 3,500 beekeepers now compared with 1,200 a decade…

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Florence Snyder: Postcard from Red Hills Horse Trials

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Tallahassee’s Red Hills Horse Trials isn’t the first thing that comes to mind for working-class people looking to spend a spring afternoon outdoors with the kids. It’s easy to feel intimidated by a United States Equestrian Association event that attracts an international crowd of die-hard members of the horsey set. But the “suggested donation” of $15 is a whole lot less than a day at Disney. And the look on children’s faces as they sit on a family picnic blanket watching…

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