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Today on Context Florida: Charlie Crist, climate change and good news

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Today on Context Florida: While thinning files last week, Martin Dyckman came across one labeled “Crist” and wondered whether to dump it. After successive losses for the U.S. Senate and for governor again, hadn’t Charlie reached the end of the line, he thought. No, something will happen to bring him back. The next day, something did. On climate change adaptation, Alan Farago says the hour is very late. Only seven years ago the mainstream media began reporting the likelihood that warming temperatures…

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Mitch Perry Report for 7.8.15 — Could Francisco Sanchez become the Willie Horton of 2016?

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The furor over Donald Trump’s comments about Mexican immigrants shows no sign of diminishing as ESPN decided to pull its charity golf tournament from his Southern California course yesterday. It’s been a very rough week for the celebrity/businessman/GOP presidential candidate, with major corporations like Macy’s, NBC and Univision cutting ties with him in the wake of his disparaging comments last month, when he said, “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists,” adding, “and some, I assume, are good people.’” But Trump is doubling…

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CNN to return to Florida for presidential debate in 2016 — could Tampa Bay host again?

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As has been the case in the last two Republican presidential primary cycles, CNN will be bringing its resources to Florida to host a televised debate. The cable news network announced on Wednesday that it will come to the Sunshine State to host a debate on March 10, just five days before registered Republican voters here will vote in the presidential primary. CNN said that it announced the debate because it is unlikely the GOP will have chosen a nominee by that date “given…

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Team Rubio not impressed by Hillary Clinton’s soft opening

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The political media world was abuzz about Hillary Clinton’s expected announcement on Sunday that she would be declaring her candidacy for president. CNN even had foreign policy maven Fareed Zakaria broadcast live on his Fareed Zakaria GPS program, with a graphic on the side of the screen with the words, “Awaiting Hilary Clinton announcement.” But the Rubio camp indicated that they weren’t breathlessly awaiting the announcement. “We like the contrast between Hillary Clinton’s virtual announcement and Marco Rubio’s real announcement,”…

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Like Hillary Clinton, Bill Nelson says he’d rather carry just one phone

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One of the biggest criticisms coming out of Hillary Clinton’s press conference on Tuesday was her admission that she opted to use a personal email account during her time as secretary of state because, “I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two.” That comment led many observers to note that you can actually have two email accounts on one smartphone. But Bill Nelson understands where Clinton is coming…

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Marco Rubio slams White House, Charlie Crist over oil spill

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Marco Rubio slammed the Obama administration Wednesday, CNN reports, for its response to the Gulf oil spill. And Rubio did not miss the opportunity to criticize his opponent Florida Gov. Charlie Crist for not doing more to get the resources Florida needs to defend against the spill’s onslaught. “I think the federal government took its time responding to this early on,” Rubio said of the spill in an interview that aired on CNN’s The Situation Room. “I think that they…

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HD video of oil spill released

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As CNN explains, BP has released high-quality video images of oil flowing from its damaged well, after pressure from Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer and Bill Nelson, who demanded “full access to all video” to allow independent experts to make a better estimate of just how much oil is flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.

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