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Today on Context Florida: Stephanie Collins, Rep. Erik Fresen and the Confederate flag

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Today on Context Florida: Catherine Durkin Robinson talks about Stephanie Collins, a high school friend who was abducted and murdered by a serial killer and his wife, who both thrived off the attention. It is difficult to get a guilty verdict and death sentence once, she writes, never mind three times, in Florida. Therefore it’s worth noting how pathetic it is that the man continues to sit on death row and appeal these convictions over and over again. Robinson demands Gov.…

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Today on Context Florida: NBA social consciousness, symbolism of The 4th and Confederate flag must go

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Today on Context Florida: Richard Lapchick, director of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, offers his National Basketball Association all-star team of social conscience. The NBA has always led other leagues on best hiring practices both for people of color and women, and has been the most progressive with its policies and impact on communities. So it’s not surprising that basketball is Lapchick’s favorite sport. As we prepare to celebrate the holiday formally called Independence Day but more commonly…

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Today on Context Florida: Confederate flags, Keep Florida Healthy and balanced budgets

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Today on Context Florida: Those who flaunt the Confederate flag insist that it symbolizes “heritage,” not hate. Call it what they will, says Martin Dyckman, but that heritage is a heritage of hate. Through all this ghastly history the Confederate battle flag served as a symbol of the lost “cause” that had led to it all, and, inescapably, of the hatred that has long outlasted the cause and still haunts this nation. Gov. Rick Scott touted the 2015 state budget as…

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Jeb Bush recalls removing Confederate flag from Florida Capitol

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Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush wants voters to know he’s on the side of those calling for the Confederate flag to come down from public places. He’s noting his decision to remove it from the Florida Capitol grounds in 2001 when he was governor. The flag has become a flashpoint since a white gunman killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina. Bush spoke Monday at a plant near Columbia, South Carolina. He says the Confederate battle flag has been…

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Pensacola removes Confederate flag from city property

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The Confederate flag known as the Stars and Bars will no longer be displayed on City of Pensacola property. Pensacola is known as “The City of Five Flags” in tribute to the city’s past under Spanish, French, British, Confederate and Unites States rulers. Displays at the city’s main post office and elsewhere have long featured each of the flags, including the original flag of the Confederacy known as the Star and Bars. The flag is not as recognizable as the…

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Confederate flag bad, Gay Pride flag good

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Nationwide, it’s all about the flags. People still shaken by the tragic massacre of nine African-American church-goers in Charleston, S.C., are shaking up political forums, social media and newscasts from coast to coast calling on South Carolina to remove the Confederate Flag from flying over official buildings. That flag, they say, is racist. Now people in Florida are taking a look at our state flag wondering if it resembles a little too closely the racist Confederate flag. Then there’s Scott…

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The end for SaintPetersBlog

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South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier wants flag removed

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Those who remember Steve Spurrier from his days at the University as Florida understand that Spurrier isn’t one to silence his own opinion. Sometimes, that involves politics. Spurrier, the coach at South Carolina, has come out in favor of the removal of the Confederate flag from the grounds of South Carolina’s state Capitol in Columbia. A day earlier, Spurrier’s supervisor, athletic director Ray Tanner, had come out in favor of the removal. “The South Carolina football team, players and coaches…

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