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Today on Context Florida: Political elephants, MegaNanny Lottery and “Spotlight”

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Today on Context Florida: Underneath the candidate smears that are so much a part of local and national politics, Marc Yacht says there are a number of critical issues that leave both Republicans and Democrats too far apart. Party posturing aside there is substance to both sides of each concern but an inability for friendly if not effective bipartisan discussion. The elephants in the room include the military, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and welfare. Money and debt…

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Today on Context Florida: Bear meat & Whole Foods, GOP bluster, bizarre politics and the Salt Shaker Test

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Today on Context Florida: Doing research about Florida’s “astonishingly efficient” bear hunt, Tom O’Hara came across an equally astonishing analogy. The chairman of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission wrote this about hunting: “Hunting is the first and original organic and natural grocery store, offering locally-grown and harvested protein from the land. Think of it as nature’s Whole Foods. Health-conscious families value living off the land.” But after some investigation, O’Hara learned the analogy isn’t quite appropriate. Republican antics may…

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Today on Context Florida: Judicial term limits, bring back the clowns and balance billing reform

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Today on Context Florida: Term limits have spelled disaster for the Florida Legislature, says Martin Dyckman; it erases experience, dumbs down the process, and leaves lobbyists even more firmly in control. It was the achievement of people who preferred to weaken government rather than improve it. Florida being Florida, he says, it figures that some people now propose to do the same to the judiciary. As a child, Marc Yacht loved the circus. Back then, they were still pitching tents. The…

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Today on Context Florida: Dying vote spirit, curbing gun violence and Northwest Florida goodwill

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Today on Context Florida: The run for the presidency is a bust for both parties and Marc Yacht says there’s something missing from American politics of late. Flag wavers wave as the candidates appear amid the usual rah-rah atmosphere ginned by political diehard groupies. But as Yacht sees it, the “vote spirit” that’s so much a part of the nation’s political process seems to be dying. Fewer care and it shows in low voter turnout. Catherine Durkin Robinson offers 11 concrete…

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Today on Context Florida: The Civil War, Florida’s black bears and 3D printing

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Today on Context Florida: Wars never end, says Marc Yacht. The bullets may stop but the hatreds continue. Both sides remember. The Civil War never ended. The battles are over, the bullets stopped flying but be assured, the hatreds and conflicts continue. Revision of history, the continued growth of intolerance, the white supremacy mantra and hate pose serious threats to our nation’s future. At the annual black bear festival near Central Florida’s Ocala National Forest, Kate MacFall writes that there’s a…

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Today on Context Florida: Numb & dumb, gun regulation and Hispanics & the economy

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Today on Context Florida: Diane Roberts says in case there is anyone left who thinks ÂżJeb? Bush is a fine man running a fine campaign for president, his remarks after the latest mass shooting, this one in Oregon, shows that he comes up numb and dumb again. Under limp leaves of a tasteless and nutritionally void word salad, lurks something rotten and nasty: “stuff happens.” Only an unbalanced citizen would not condemn the killings in the recent shooting in Oregon and…

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Today on Context Florida: Martin Shkreli, political inaction and buttering up in Martin County

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Today on Context Florida: Martin Dyckman talks about Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund manager who bought the sole source of the lifesaving drug Daraprim and raised its price from $18 to $750 per pill. His message to people with weakened immune systems suffering from the parasitic disease toxomoplasis was the same as the old Jack Benny joke: “Your money or your life.” In this instance, though, it was no joke. The welfare system is crashing, healthcare is broken; politicians are…

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