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Today on Context Florida: Republican debates, death penalty and falling teen pregnancy rates

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Today on Context Florida: Martin Dyckman says the Republican debates might say a lot about who shouldn’t be president, but almost nothing about which of the 16 might deserve to be. For all but a few moments, the tedious brawl last week was to good government as a demolition derby is to auto safety. It’s hard to disagree with Marco Rubio’s take on the event: “We had a three-hour debate, no discussion about the national debt, very little about the economy,…

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Today on Context Florida: 10 big questions, collaboration, teacher shortages and homelessness

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Today on Context Florida: Peter Schorsch answers 10 big questions Florida politics faced in the summer; before Donald Trump, that is. The questions include what does Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign rollout look like; Can Marco Rubio remain in the top tier of presidential candidates and is Florida ready for Hillary? Michael Preston asks if there any greater struggle between instructor and student than the dreaded “group assignment”? By working together, employees harness the power of multiple brains. Collaboration adds to the…

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Today on Context Florida: Corrine Brown, weather scares and a vibrant Pensacola

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Today on Context Florida: U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown filed a federal lawsuit opposing the reshaping of Florida’s CD 5, the district she represents. Brown contends that redrawing her district in an east-west configuration – as the Florida Supreme Court has ordered state lawmakers to do – would deprive African-American voters the opportunity to elect the candidate of their choice. But would it, Julie Delegal asks. Two annual events occur whose sole purpose is to scare people, says Marc Yacht. Halloween, where…

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Today on Context Florida: Virginia & gun violence, Watchman & racism and understanding poverty

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Today on Context Florida: Reporter Melissa Ross reflects on the murder of two Virginia television journalists, which took place live on air Wednesday. She recalled the night she heard shots while covering a story, and implores everyone – of all colors and backgrounds – to see how gun violence affects everyone. That in itself has become a point of contention, like most American debates. Yolanda Hood has never read Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and likely will never read it.…

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Today on Context Florida: Voucher plea, as seen by average Joes and SLAPPs

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Today on Context Florida: Former State Board of Education Chairman Gary Chartrand issued an impassioned plea on behalf of Florida’s 78,000 voucher students, writes Julie Delegal. Chartrand wants the plaintiffs, namely the Florida Education Association, which represents teachers, to drop its lawsuit opposing the diversion of tax dollars to the voucher program. The FEA lawsuit is now at the appeal stage. Chartrand’s article spurred some ideas as to how the voucher program might survive ongoing lawsuits. Marc Yacht says it would…

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Today on Context Florida: Congressional dartboard, infant mortality and bleeding freely

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Today on Context Florida: Bob Sparks says the dartboard known as the draft Florida congressional district maps is receiving the kind of comments and attacks one might expect. Some are happy, but others fall into the range of sad and outraged. In the end, few new faces are likely to join the Congressional Club in 2017. The infant mortality rate — defined as the death of an infant in the first year of life per 1,000 births — is what Marc…

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Today on Context Florida: Florida’s Constitution & the courts, trumping the GOP and handling grief

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Today on Context Florida: It’s been fun blaming the Florida Legislature for gerrymandering and all that, Henry Kelley says, but GOP state Rep. Mike Hill from Pensacola penned an interesting letter to House Speaker Steve Crisafulli. In part, he wrote: “Under the guise of interpreting Sections 20 and 21 of Article III of the Florida Constitution — Florida’s new Redistricting Amendments — the court is systematically rewriting the Constitution,” Hill wrote. “Most significantly, the Court has cast aside the notion of…

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