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Today on Context Florida: GOP flips the bird, Baltimore, Earth Day and tainted FBI testimony

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Today on Context Florida: With nearly four days left in the Florida Legislature’s regular session, Speaker Steve Crisafulli and House Republicans essentially flipped us the bird and flew home, says Daniel Tilson. The political class in Tallahassee likes to call such adjournment of each year’s session by its traditional Latin name, Sine Die. But given the shocking way it went down, no such lofty labels are in order. Steven Kurlander says the lessons of Baltimore are that Americans need to wake…

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Today on Context Florida: Online voting, Scott’s Florida, fair balance and water issues

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Today on Context Florida: Peter Schorsch notes two bills making their way through the Legislature that have to do with online voting and voter registration. Seems like a good idea, except Gov. Scott – and by virtue of that, now his march-in-lockstep secretary of state, Ken Detzner – is opposed to it. Despite assurances from everyone who knows how these systems work and despite all of the smart safeguards, Gov. Scott is worried that opening up the voter systems will encourage…

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Today on Context Florida: Scott’s conscience, taxing sunshine, healthcare conspiracy and testing reform

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Today on Context Florida: Two years ago, Gov. Rick Scott announced support for expanding access to healthcare in Florida saying he, “in good conscience,” could not deny the uninsured access to care. Fast forward to 2015 and he is opposed to a plan to close Florida’s coverage gap endorsed by the entire Florida Senate, Democrats and Republicans alike. After this latest about-face, Mark Ferrulo wonders whether Scott even has a conscience. Bruce Ritchie asks whether there is there a fair way…

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Today on Context Florida: Marco Rubio’s aspirations, should Jeb step aside and Rigged to Fail

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Today on Context Florida: In the political hothouse that is Florida, Jack Stevenson says the number of people who actually believe that Marco Rubio would be a better president of the United States than Jeb Bush would fit into, well, Freedom Hall in Miami. Nevertheless, the political cognoscenti who fear Marco’s presidential candidacy is just the opening gambit in a run for governor in 2018, a race he might actually be able to win, would fill a much larger venue. Little…

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Today on Context Florida: Adoptions, what you think, Hillary Clinton and real estate law

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Today on Context Florida: More than 600 children woke up without a permanent home to call their own, says Jason Brodeur, who himself is a child of adoptive parents. That is why he authored legislation to make Florida the best state for adoptions – particularly adoptions benefiting foster children. When it comes to helping children, he adds, let us check rigid ideologies at the door – all of them. The poor? The hell with them. Education? Don’t make me laugh. The…

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Today on Context Florida: Child rights, Scott’s flip, diversification and Kim Gordon

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Today on Context Florida: Every child has the right to be loved, says Martin Dyckman. When will the Florida Senate recognize that, he wonders. Should child placement agencies licensed by or supported by the state be allowed to refuse foster care and adoption services that violate their “written religious moral convictions or policies”? To put the question another way, should gay applicants be turned away despite a landmark court decision affirming their rights to be parents? That’s what this legislation, CS…

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Today on Context Florida: Richard Corcoran, Rick Scott, the RFRA and 9,071 years

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Today on Context Florida: Jack Stevenson says that if there were any doubt House Appropriations Chairman and Speaker-In-Waiting Richard Corcoran is a conservative crusader whose commitment to his principles leaves him indifferent to comity, convention and the nuances of legislative diplomacy, that doubt was laid to rest last week when he went on a rampage through the legislative china shop. Looks like Gov. Rick Scott wants to “keep working” past January 2018, writes Daniel Tilson. That is the inauguration of our…

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