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Today on Context Florida: Love & government, vote solar, America’s greatness and virtual public schools

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Today on Context Florida: Darryl Paulson offers a warning – never mix love and government. In 1868, Florida passed a law making it illegal for a “Negro man and a white woman … who are not married to each other … to habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room.” Violation of the law was a second-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine. Florida also made it illegal for such individuals…

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Today on Context Florida: Alimony bill veto, America’s future, more stuff and Florida’s economy

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Today on Context Florida: Brian Burgess believes that Rick Scott should veto the alimony bill because it’s the ‘right thing to do.’ With Scott as governor, Burgess says he has largely lived up to expectations as a social conservative, albeit one whose primary focus is on the economic, rather than social issues that affect Florida’s families. Now, he is being asked to sign off on a similar bill that would also apply retroactively to Florida families and children, changing the rules…

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Today on Context Florida: Disastrous nominees, top Tallahassee stories, nasty conventions and Donald Trump

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Today on Context Florida: The economist John Kenneth Galbraith memorably said that politics “consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” But Martin Dyckman asks what if the only choice is between the disastrous and the disastrous? That’s the predicament of establishment Republican politicians who think John Kasich, the only decent human being who remains in their presidential primaries, is either too liberal (i.e., he accepted the Medicaid money) or too unlikely to limp to the finish line at the…

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Today on Context Florida: Republicans don’t think – they believe, high-stakes elections, America at a crossroads and tanning beds

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Today on Context Florida: Florida GOP voters don’t want to think, says Diane Roberts, they just want to believe. Rick Scott endorsed his Soul Brother, but only after that big Florida Primary win. Scott signaled his man-crush back in January, writing breathlessly for USA Today that Herr Drumpf reminds him of, well, him: wealthy, an “outsider,” a business hombre incensed over “endless and tedious regulation and taxation.” You know …  crap like the Clean Water Act. And the Voting Rights Act.…

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Today on Context Florida: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton and Florida’s flawed death penalty

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Today on Context Florida: Wake up Florida, says Ed Moore. Donald Trump is dangerous. More is taking one more swipe at Trump before the Florida primary, hoping (with all his heart) that fellow Floridians wake up Tuesday morning realizing they are being taken for a ride by one of the most negative people ever to seek public office. You might think our British friends would be too busy freaking out over the refugee crisis, their epochal June 23 referendum on whether…

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Today on Context Florida: Voter laws, Florida State Parks, public service, Donald Trump and unintended consequences

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Today on Context Florida: The 2016 presidential election is increasingly on the mind of voters as moments from the televised debates, and primary results reverberate through the media. Beverlye C. Neal says the fight to protect the right to vote has also received lots of media attention because Florida and other states have seen election laws passed that make it harder for many voters to participate in the process. When faced with laws erecting barriers to the ballot, the federal courts…

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Today on Context Florida: Slinging mud, Full Sail, constitutional liberty, doing things differently and taking the stage

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Today on Context Florida: Marco Rubio and Donald Trump are slinging mud by spraying water. Jac VerSteeg suggests this may be from the unconscious influence of their ties to Florida, a vast peninsula surrounded by the sparkling aqua stuff. Trump himself is master of an estate whose name – Mar-a-Lago – derives from its proximity to two bodies of water. Rubio’s persona is shaped by the 90 miles of Florida Straits separating his family’s adopted country from Cuba’s tyranny. It is…

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