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Jeb Bush: New gun limits not way to prevent shooting tragedies

Published on June 29, 2015 in 2017/Top Headlines by Associated Press

New gun control measures are not the way to prevent mass killings such as the shooting deaths of nine people in a South Carolina church, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Saturday. Bush, who plans to meet with black ministers in Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday, said identifying potentially violent people before they commit such crimes is a better approach than further restrictions on gun ownership. “We as a society better figure out how we identify these folks long before…

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Today on Context Florida: Health care regret, hate groups, ‘be nice’ and more than a number

Published on June 25, 2015 in Apolitical/Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

Today on Context Florida: Republicans who have left no stone unturned in efforts to crush Obamacare are having second thoughts as they realize 6.4 million could lose their health insurance, says Marc Yacht. The chaos created by such action lies at the feet of conservative Republicans and the ultimate cost at the polls is yet to be determined. It brings up the adage, “Be careful what you want; you may get it!” The murder of a pastor and eight parishioners in their…

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Timing is everything: Rick Scott cuts budget for Bethel AME Church in St. Pete

Published on June 23, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

With little fanfare, Gov. Rick Scott signed Florida’s record budget Tuesday morning, totaling nearly $80 billion. And with an equal lack of surprise, Scott inserted more than $461 million in line-item vetoes – another state record. Among Tampa Bay-area projects not surviving the chopping block was $240,956 set aside for the restoration of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Second Ave. South in St. Petersburg. The project was not momentous, compared to many others that were dropped. No one would…

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Dylann Roof almost didn’t go through with Charleston shooting because ‘everyone was so nice’

Published on June 19, 2015 in Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old suspect in the shooting of nine people Wednesday evening at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C.,, had been planning the shooting for months, friends say. But he almost didn’t go through with the “mission” at the last minute, reports NBC News, because he said “everyone was so nice to him.” Roof, from Lexington, S.C., was arrested Thursday in North Carolina, and is currently being held at a detention center in South Carolina. He will appear at…

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Mitch Perry Report for 6.19.15 — American terrorism, continued

Published on June 19, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

The Charleston shootings on Wednesday night was clearly an act of domestic terrorism. The racial element was also first and foremost in the young killer’s motivation. Now what? “At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries,” President Obama said from the White House Briefing Room yesterday. “It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency. And it is in…

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Jeb Bush: New gun limits not way to prevent shooting tragedies

Today on Context Florida: Health care regret, hate groups, ‘be nice’ and more than a number

Timing is everything: Rick Scott cuts budget for Bethel AME Church in St. Pete

Dylann Roof almost didn’t go through with Charleston shooting because ‘everyone was so nice’

Mitch Perry Report for 6.19.15 — American terrorism, continued

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