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Diane Roberts skewers ruling class during Tallahassee talk

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Writer, international scholar, FSU English professor, opinion columnist and environmentalist Diane Roberts entertained a crowd of North Florida Democrats Tuesday evening with her incisive wit and pointed observations about the state of Florida and its leaders. Referring to herself as “that professor conservatives warn you about,” Roberts let fly a quiverful of bon mots as she skewered the Legislature, “they argue like kindergartners”; Rick Scott, “Could you screw up any worse? Oh yeah, the governor”; and global warming deniers, “If…

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Jeff Atwater hosting ‘Treasure Hunt’ to auction off $700K in unclaimed property

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Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater is asking members of the public to come to Jacksonville this weekend to participate in an auctioning off of hundreds of thousands of dollars in property, held in what is essentially the massive state “lost and found” that his office oversees. Atwater’s office invites “Floridians” — though nearby Georgians will certainly come to join in the spoils too — to the Mariott Hotel in Jacksonville to bid in a massive auction “featuring the sale of 50,000 items valued…

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Pee-resistant walls will return fire if you pee on them

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A Jacksonville-based company has figured out a way to repel liquids – a tool useful in thwarting public urinators. Surfaces painted with the pee-proof paint will have some of that pee splashed right back at them. Take that, pee-pee bandit. The company behind the masterful pee-thwarting paint is Ultra-tech. It’s formulated to create a rough surface with little hills and valleys. That keeps liquid from adhering to the surface and sends it flying right back to where it came. In…

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Gov. Scott touts 100 new jobs in Jacksonville

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Jacksonville is getting 100 new jobs thanks to Johnson & Johnson Vision Care. The company is planning to expand its facility in the North Florida city from its current base of 2,000 employees. The company will also spend more than $300 million to make the expansion happen. “Since December 2010, more than 879,000 private-sector jobs have been added in Florida and we have cut taxes 50 times, including eliminating the sales tax on manufacturing equipment, which shows that Florida’s business-friendly…

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State of Florida cities are good for economic growth, new study says

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North Florida is on the right path of economic growth, says a new “State of the Cities” survey released Thursday by the Florida League of Cities. A combination of high-quality local services, lower property taxes and drawing new business made the difference for Northwest Florida and around the state to maintain positive economic growth in 2014, according to the annual report produced by the League’s Center for Municipal Research and Innovation. “An important part of our continued growth over the…

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Yahoo! The Jaguars, Bills are going to start Internet football

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Good news, everybody. Blake Bortles is on the Internet! Download him today! And he’s facing E.J. Manuel in a battle for bandwidth and the pride of England. Yahoo! This is a good thing, I think. The NFL and Yahoo have announced a partnership that will bring a football game between the Jacksonville Jaguars (tally-ho) and Buffalo Bills (carry on) to the Internet. That means that if you happen to be weary of playing Candy Crush for a morning, there will…

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Today on Context Florida: Lenny Curry, Big Sugar, free parking and standardized test fail

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Today on Context Florida: Bob Sparks says Lenny Curry’s victory in Jacksonville last night shows Republicans the way to win. The political class is analyzing whether Curry’s win gives Republicans any advantage next year in the quest to capture Florida’s 29 electoral votes or to hold a U.S. Senate seat. Since Jacksonville and Duval County usually go Republican (Barack Obama lost this area twice), a Democrat winning twice in non-presidential election years would certainly give the GOP some cause for concern.…

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