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Today on Context Florida: Crime, Healthy Florida Works, Big Sugar and Andrew’s Capital Grill

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Today on Context Florida: One of the truthful boasts in Gov. Rick Scott’s curiously brief speech to the Legislature last week may not have been good news to all who heard it, says Martin Dyckman. “We are at a 43-year low in our crime rate,” Scott said. By 2013, crime in Florida had fallen 60 percent from its high point in 1988, which was 10 percent better than the national decline. But there are some to whom this might be a…

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Today on Context Florida: No Casinos, Scott’s threat, graduation rates and the Permanent Campaign

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Today on Context Florida: For decades, casino lobbyists have tried to turn Florida into Las Vegas, says No Casinos president John Sowinski. But gambling lobbyists are back again, this time pushing for the biggest expansion of gambling in Florida’s history. There is a reason why they are so desperate to move into Florida and why responsible legislators should once again turn them away. Gov. Rick Scott wrote a letter to President Obama this week. Daniel Tilson asks, “Isn’t that special?” Well,…

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Today on Context Florida: education accountability, Miami Gardens, Student loan debt and sagging pants

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Today on Context Florida: In the second of a two-part series, Julie Delegal examines the move to lower the stakes in Florida’s high-stakes education accountability system, as well as how they got so high in the first place. Republican Rep. Debbie Mayfield of Vero Beach is so frustrated with the entire standards-based accountability system that she wants to give entire school districts the ability to “opt out” of standards-based tests altogether. Florence Snyder talks of the Miami Gardens police, and its…

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Today on Context Florida: Festival of Bad Ideas, craft beer, education and argue jurisdiction

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Today on Context Florida: Some Florida towns have a strawberry festival; others a seafood festival, a jazz festival, or even a frog leg festival. In Florida’s capital, Diane Roberts says there is an annual Festival of Bad Ideas – the 60-day Legislative Session. Peter Schorsch is a huge fan of craft beer: the taste, the smell and even the interesting artwork on the bottles. However, he cannot help but wonder; what might happen if crafties get what they want from Florida…

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Today on Context Florida: Blatant hypocrisy, unfair criticism, Gerry Jaski and the SOTS we deserve

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Today on Context Florida: As a Florida man “of a certain age” with a wife and two daughters, Daniel Tilson is sick and tired of pandering politicians putting so many of our beloved women at risk every year during the state’s 60-day legislative session.  He is fed up with ambitious elected ideologues talking tough about protecting individual liberty and personal freedom – except for that of the women in our lives. Tilson calls that hypocrisy. Blatant hypocrisy, to be more accurate.…

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Today on Context Florida: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, negative editorials, Gunshine Staters and development projects

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Today on Context Florida: Everyone seems to be completely blowing off Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s candidacy and thinks her chances of winning a 2016 Senate race. At the risk commendation to outlier status for eternity, Peter Schorsch makes the case for her. Benjamin Franklin delivered the line, “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Were he alive today, Steve Crisafulli believes Franklin would amend his short list of inevitabilities with a declaration that Florida Republicans…

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