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Florence Snyder: Notes from the Florida State Archives

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If you want to feel good โ€” really good โ€” about your government, pay a visit to the overworked, underpaid band of public servants who staff Florida’s State Library and Archives. These are the people who preserve, protect and defend our history from those who would rewrite it for short-term political or financial gain. Floridaโ€™s archivists and librarians are paragons of competence. They are bottomless pits of the childlike curiosity and thirst for knowledge that moves a society in the…

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Is Senate candidate Doug Broxson running in the Panhandle โ€ฆ or Jacksonville?

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Mike Hill and Doug Broxson, two state House members vying for Senate District 1 in the Florida Panhandle both released TV ads this week. Both are sticking to conservative notes and relating their message to the veteran-rich Panhandle district they seek to serve. But a closer look at the Broxson commercial shows several odd things for a Panhandle candidate. Point 1: Army vet? Write in candidate? Resident of St. Augustine (400 miles from SD 1)? Political operative staffing a congressional…

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