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Colorado first-grader suspended for making finger gun

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Another example of zero-tolerance critique has cropped up in the news this week. A first-grader in Colorado Springs, Colorado, was suspended for pointing his fingers in the shape of a gun at another student. Six-year-old Elijah Thurston said “bang, bang” at the other child as he made the gesture. In a climate where school shootings are becoming all too normal, the school’s reaction to suspend the young boy for a day may not seem too harsh. But consider that even…

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#4 on list of Tampa Bay’s Most Powerful Politicians — Jeff Brandes

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If Rand Paul is the most interesting man in politics (as he was labeled last fall by Time magazine), then Jeff Brandes is definitely on the short list for the most interesting lawmaker in Tallahassee. Though he skews right (sometimes extreme right, as when he was the only state senator who opposed the Joe Negron “hybrid” proposal on Medicaid expansion in 2013), he’s also got a strong libertarian bent that distinguishes himself from the majority of his GOP brethren. He…

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Progressives to rally statewide Tuesday for alternative legislative agenda

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As the legislative session kicks off Tuesday, a progressive group is coming together in communities across the state to put forth a more progressive agenda than what has been seen in the overwhelmingly conservative Legislature. The group Progress Florida is organizing statewide rallies called “Awake the State” for the fifth year in a row as the 2015 session gets underway. The group will unveil its list of five legislative priorities during a noon-time rally at the state Capitol in Tallahassee…

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Previewing the Legislative Session with Progress Florida’s Damien Flier

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With a super-majority in the House and a strong majority in the senate, Florida Republicans stand a pretty good chance of getting their way during this year’s Legislative Session. But that doesn’t mean progressive Democrats aren’t still riled up with messages for lawmakers. The group Progress Florida came together in Governor Rick Scott’s first term in office to fight an onslaught of Tea Party ideals including drastic cuts to public education and efforts to seemingly silence minority voters at the…

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Second strip joint, err, adult establishment – the Bottom 2 The Top Club – opens in downtown in St. Petersburg

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So I was talking to my good friend Mark F. last week and he couldn’t stop telling me about the new adult establishment that he visied, err, I mean opened up in his neighborhood: The Bottom 2 The Top Club. Along with SINN, the bikini dance club which opened up next to the Scientology Life Improvement Center in Decemeber, the Bottom 2 The Top Club is the second so-called Gentlemen’s Club to open in downtown St. Petersburg in the three…

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