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Today on Context Florida: James Tracy, execution road trip, Jim King and brute force versus compromises

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Today on Context Florida: According to Jac VerSteeg, James Tracy is creating an opening for Florida politicians who don’t like tenure and don’t like faculty unions. Because of Tracy’s case, tenure opponents could go on the attack and look good doing it. Tracy is the Florida Atlantic University communications professor who claims the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre is a hoax. Tracy got into a public feud with the parents of one of the children murdered at Sandy Hook. The…

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Today on Context Florida: Donald Trump, getting older and colder, and naming names

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Today on Context Florida: As we rapidly approach the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, Darryl Paulson writes of the increasing speculation that Donald Trump will likely be the Republican presidential nominee. Nevertheless, he believes Trump has no better than a 20 percent chance of winning the nomination. So, why will Trump not win the Republican nomination? Because he will either suffer a Howard Dean-like fall, or because his support is concentrated among people who are not Republicans and people…

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Today on Context Florida: Solving hunger in Florida, coding as a foreign language and updating traditions

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Today on Context Florida: Hunger is a complex problem, says Robin Safley. In order to solve it, we must understand the underlying issues and apply comprehensive solutions to assist those in need. We know that access to a consistent supply of nutritious food is critical to the underlying health of our families and the academic achievement of our children. There’s no better platform to take on those issues than as executive director of the Florida Association of Food Banks (FAFB). Every…

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Today on Context Florida: 2015 disappointments, black universities and holiday newsletters

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Today on Context Florida: Few will disagree that 2015 was a particularly fertile political year, one that produced a bumper crop of political disappointments, says Peter Schorsch. That’s what we get when the Legislature meets yeah I would say almost unceasingly in Special Session because it cannot agree on much of anything. Of course, the key word in this analysis is “disappointing.” One cannot disappoint if they were not held in some regard beforehand. Schorsch offers his list of the year’s…

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Today on Context Florida: Thanksgiving edition

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Today on Context Florida: For Thanksgiving, Chris Timmons reminds us, as Americans, to remember the gratitude for what we have: We still are the richest country in the world; we still do enormous good in global hotspots with our military presence; we still are the most generous country in the world. We can still revive an ideal of this country as free, fair-minded, tolerant, productive, gainful to all and generous. We can never attain it, Timmons says, if we forget the…

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Today on Context Florida: The mighty always fall, social justice warriors and rethinking gender equality

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Today on Context Florida: The mighty always have fallen, warns Dr. Marc J. Yacht. Always. Being a strong imperial power offers no guarantee of continued existence. Ask any Mayan whose empire survived 3,500 years. They sit alongside the Roman, British, Spanish and Mongol empires. The French faced the revolution with Madame Defarge knitting while the People’s Court sentenced French nobility to death. One cannot ignore the Russian Revolution and the end of the Romanov dynasty. It happens and it can happen…

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Today on Context Florida: Fracking, U.S. Therapist General, delayed justice and the latest Salt Shaker Test

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Today on Context Florida: Sarah Maricle Ayers warns that Floridians should weigh facts on fracking before banning its benefits. The exciting energy frontier that hydraulic fracturing represents is one of the best-kept secrets in Florida. The process consists of blasting a water, chemical, and proppant solution under high pressure to create fissures in rocks, which then allows the release of the oil and hydrocarbons locked within. Current dialogue, unfortunately, ignores the tremendous benefits offered by fracking, and raised awareness is desperately…

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