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Jupiter High School cancels popular powderpuff football game

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A skirmish has broken out in the small town of Jupiter, Fla., over whether the girl students at Jupiter High School have made their last tackle. Town officials are fighting to preserve the 50-year-old powderpuff football game, which has been canceled by. Principal Dan Frank because of safety concerns after a girl broke her leg in recent years and there have been bruises and sprains. Around the country, there are thousands of powderpuff games, but most of those are flag football games.…

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Diane Roberts: Yale tells Rick Scott it’s not ready to swap ivy for kudzu

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It’s springtime! and idiocy is in full Florida bloom. The state Supreme Court just ruled that a disingenuous and dissembling solar energy initiative is good to go on this November’s ballot. The proposed amendment, “masquerading as pro-solar” (in the words of dissenting justice Barbara Pariente), is sponsored by utility companies. Yes, utility companies, those nice people who charge the taxpayers for power plants they may not even build, those great environmentalists who want solar about as much as you want…

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“Trump” missing – from sign outside his Florida resort

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“Trump” is missing – at least from the sign outside of one of the Republican presidential candidate’s Florida golf resorts. The Palm Beach Post reported Wednesday that someone removed the script lettering spelling the owner’s surname from a Trump National Jupiter entrance sign. Resort officials did not immediately respond to calls and emails Wednesday from The Associated Press. Jupiter police spokesman Officer Adam Brown told the AP on Wednesday that no report has been filed and the club has not…

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Mitch Perry Report for 1.21.16 – New Florida Senate poll is interesting

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A GOP presidential poll released yesterday by Florida Atlantic University shows Donald Trump leading in Florida in the March 15 presidential primary, with a stunning 48 percent share of the vote. Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio are well behind at 11 and 10 percent, putting them in 3rd and 4th places, respectively (Ted Cruz is second with 16 percent). Just as interesting was that the FAU poll (of 371 Democrats and 345 Republicans) found in the U.S. Senate race, which hasn’t had a…

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