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Pensacola removes Confederate flag from city property

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The Confederate flag known as the Stars and Bars will no longer be displayed on City of Pensacola property. Pensacola is known as “The City of Five Flags” in tribute to the city’s past under Spanish, French, British, Confederate and Unites States rulers. Displays at the city’s main post office and elsewhere have long featured each of the flags, including the original flag of the Confederacy known as the Star and Bars. The flag is not as recognizable as the…

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Today on Context Florida: An open letter to House Republicans, storm water, genetic predisposition for cancer and continual undeclared war

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Today on Context Florida: Daniel Tilson writes an open letter to Republicans in the Florida House: Word is, most of you are about to vote “Nay” and kill the Florida Senate’s healthcare bill that would insure hundreds of thousands of uninsured men and women stuck in the “Florida Coverage Gap.” Those are your fellow conservative Republican legislators who worked their butts off to craft and pass this legislation. They even came back at it three times to make it as conservatively charmed…

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Today on Context Florida: Red Hills Horse Trials, Pensacola, high school and death penalty

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Today on Context Florida: Tallahassee’s Red Hills Horse Trials isn’t the first thing that comes to mind for working-class people looking to spend a spring afternoon outdoors with the kids, says Florence Snyder. It’s easy to feel intimidated by a United States Equestrian Association event that attracts an international crowd of diehard members of the horsey set. But the “suggested donation” of $15 is a whole lot less than a day at Disney, and the look on children’s faces as they sit on a…

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Charlie Crist to meet with VP Joe Biden on Tuesday

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Charlie Crist will get another photo op with a top administration official when Vice President Joe Biden visits the state Tuesday. Biden will be at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola to examine efforts to counter the oil spill in the Gulf. Crist is scheduled to join him, according to a White House advisory on the event. Continue reading here. It’s the second time this month Crist has gotten face time with the administration. He and President Barack Obama walked…

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Hell must have frozen over: Charlie Crist misses his own fundraiser

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The Fort Myers News-Press is reporting that hell has frozen over.  It must have because Charlie Crist actually missed his own fundraiser and we know something like that is not going to happen unless the apocalypse is upon us. Still in Pensacola focusing on the oil washing up on the shores of Florida’s Panhandle, Charlie Crist wasn’t able to make it to his own fundraiser in south Fort Myers on Sunday night. Instead, he phoned in and spoke to about 40 supporters…

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Marco Rubio slams White House, Charlie Crist over oil spill

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Marco Rubio slammed the Obama administration Wednesday, CNN reports, for its response to the Gulf oil spill. And Rubio did not miss the opportunity to criticize his opponent Florida Gov. Charlie Crist for not doing more to get the resources Florida needs to defend against the spill’s onslaught. “I think the federal government took its time responding to this early on,” Rubio said of the spill in an interview that aired on CNN’s The Situation Room. “I think that they…

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Former Florida Senate President W.D. Childers’ bribery conviction reversed

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A federal appeals court Tuesday reversed the bribery conviction of former Florida Senate President W.D. Childers, who was known as the Legislature’s “banty rooster” because of his feisty personality and short stature. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta issued the 2-1 ruling. The majority found Childers’ trial judge erred by excluding evidence that could have impeached the credibility of the prosecution’s star witness. The ruling came nearly a year after Childers, 76, was…

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