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Today on Context Florida: Death penalty inconsistency, David Jolly, drug abuse, campaign insanity and insurance fraud

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Today on Context Florida: In a U.S. Supreme Court dissent last year, Martin Dyckman notes, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote that it’s time to abolish capital punishment death penalty. The whole notion is riddled with too many inconsistencies for a civil society, Breyer said. At the time, only Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg agreed. Every year, about 1,000 people go to Florida prisons for various degrees of homicide. Last year, only nine of them went to death row. U.S. Rep. David Jolly pulls…

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Today on Context Florida: Florida’s death penalty, alimony “reform,” Key West traffic and Obama’s State of the Union

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Today on Context Florida: According to Martin Dyckman, nothing else that government does costs as much as the death penalty in order to accomplish so little. This ought to concern even the most conservative legislators as they cope with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 8-1 decision Tuesday, in Hurst v. Florida that the state’s capital sentencing process is unconstitutional. The choice now is to fix it or repeal it. “Those are our two options,” said Carlos Trujillo, the House Criminal Justice chairman.…

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Today on Context Florida: Wrong solutions, our American concoction and Donald Trump’s philanthropy

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Today on Context Florida: Legislation calling on Florida to once again elect an education commissioner strikes Martin Dyckman as the wrong solution to a real problem. There are plenty of reasons to be dissatisfied with the state of education in the Sunshine State but none is enough, in his opinion, to enlarge the Cabinet and dilute the responsibility of the governor’s office. In two words, Dyckman gives us one of the reasons against it: Ron Howard. Go ahead, America, says Julie…

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Today on Context Florida: Honoring famous Floridians, Marin County’s botched website and a year of melting

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Today on Context Florida: Florida had been a state for less than a century when it came time to honor famous citizens with two statues at the U.S. Capitol. At the time, there were few plausible candidates, says Martin Dyckman. Dr. John Gorrie, the physician who invented mechanical refrigeration – imagine modern Florida without it – was an outstanding choice. But from today’s perspective, Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith is a head-scratcher. Let 2016 be the year the Legislature finally retires…

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Today on Context Florida: Christmas music, kooky professors and making education fun

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Today on Context Florida: There are two types of people: those who, the day after Thanksgiving, turn their radio to the all-Christmas music station, and the rest — Grinchy McGrinchersons. Heather Gibson offers her list of the good, the bad and the quintessential Christmas music. Academe would be a dreary place without its occasional kooky professor, but for Martin Dyckman, James Tracy of Florida Atlantic University is simply too much. Hired to teach about conspiracy theories, he digressed into peddling his…

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Today on Context Florida: Holiday service, homegrown threats, Christmas wishes and what’s wrong with the GOP

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Today on Context Florida: Terri Susan Fine says the Thanksgiving season brought interesting discussions about “the holidays.” Many holidays are celebrated by people of different cultures, religious backgrounds and nations of origin. There are some who may celebrate both holidays such that they wish each other “Merry Christmas” and a “Happy Hanukkah,” while others include Hanukkah decorations on their Christmas trees or add the traditional red-and-green Christmas colors to their Hanukkah menorahs, the eight-light candelabra used as part of the Hanukkah…

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Today on Context Florida: Another day in America, “God isn’t fixing this” and Trump enablers

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Today on Context Florida: Just another day in the United States of America: “Another day of gunfire, panic and fear. This time in the city of San Bernardino in California, where a civic building was apparently under attack.” That, says Martin Dyckman, was the voice, tinged with sorrow and shock, of a BBC reporter describing yet another day in America. Just another year in America, whose homicide rate of 5 per 100,000 is the third highest among the 36 member nations…

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