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Marco Rubio draws from past despite future focus

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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio launched a Republican presidential campaign this week with a promise to reject “the leaders and ideas of the past.” It was a not-so-subtle jab from a 43-year-old fresh-faced, senator at his likely 2016 competitors, Republican Jeb Bush and Democrat Hillary Clinton, whose families were cemented as political dynasties in the 1990s. A closer look at Rubio’s early priorities, however, suggests that many of his policy prescriptions were born in the same era he’s vowing to leave…

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Today on Context Florida: Pet parenting, faculty tenure and 10 commandments of climate change

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Today on Context Florida: It is stupid to equate parenting with pet ownership, says Steven Kurlander, and misguided in terms of how we in American society think about animals and our relationship with them. Pets, and animals too, are not humans, and should not be considered or treated as such. Few hot-button topics are hotter among university faculty than whether tenure is essential to academic freedom and quality teaching, says former University of North Florida educator Dan Dundon. Tenure reform sometimes…

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Why assisted living is a good choice

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As another generation of Americans enjoys their retirement, the generation beneath them begins to worry about their health and well-being. Particularly for those people with at least one deceased parent, the fear that the remaining parent won’t be able to live alone becomes an ever-present worry. Whether you are concerned for a loved one, or if you are a senior citizen weighing the options, assisted living may be the answer, and it’s not as bad as you think. Because of the…

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New Social Security offices opening Thursday

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The new Social Security offices you’ve probably driven by several times and wondered, “What’s going in there?” will open Thursday at 30 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St. S. According to a blurb in the Times, the new location will include much of the same staff and services as the former offices on 34th St., which closed Friday, said district manager B.J. Hughes. The updated building near Central Avenue will include a hearings office on the second floor, which used…

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Sunday’s editorial pages

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St. Petersburg Times – They put dagger into BayWalk – When BayWalk is boarded up and completes its transformation from downtown St. Petersburg’s jewel to its biggest eyesore, we will know whom to blame. When Muvico closes and there is not a single movie theater in a city that is supposed to be major league, we will know where to point the finger. And when that blight causes the windows in those shiny new condos to remain dark and other…

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