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Today on Context Florida: Donald Trump — comedian or candidate, Botox and International Year of Light

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Today on Context Florida: Donald Trump understands that when running for office any news is good news, Marc Yacht writes.  A campaign manager will argue that garnering media attention will improve name recognition and such attention means votes. No candidate gains more successful press attention than presidential hopeful Donald Trump. But as a serious presidential candidate, though, Yacht says the nation would fare better if he keeps his day job. After sending her best friend a selfie, Catherine Durkin Robinson received…

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Email insights: Uber partners with UN Women to create one million jobs

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While Republicans in Congress seem to be really, really turned off by laws that would mandate equal pay for equal work and local governments seem too enamored with taxi companies to really work with ride share companies, Uber and UN Women are joining forces to help each other out. On one hand, Uber is committing to creating 1,000,000 jobs for women across the world, on the other, UN Women is standing behind them, making them pretty hard not to like.…

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Kendrick Meek pens op-ed: ‘Anti-Israel bias has no place at the UN’

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Congressman Kendrick Meek and candidate for the US Senate has a pretty forceful op-ed in today’s Sun-Sentinel: “We all know of the serious challenges Israel faces at the United Nations. The anti-Israel bias at this world body poses a very real obstacle to Israel and members of the peace-supporting international community.” Full story here.

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Kendrick Meek pens op-ed: ‘Anti-Israel bias has no place at the UN’

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Congressman Kendrick Meek and candidate for the U.S. Senate has a pretty forceful op-ed in today’s Sun-Sentinel: “We all know of the serious challenges Israel faces at the United Nations. The anti-Israel bias at this world body poses a very real obstacle to Israel and members of the peace-supporting international community.” Full story here.

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So what’s Wrong With Deveron Gibbons? He took my shoes!

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As Alannis Morisette once asked, Isn’t it ironic? The Bay Buzz is in a tizzy because someone has designed an anonymous blog attacking Deveron Gibbons: Who’s behind mysterious Deveron Gibbons site? — An anonymous blogger has begun an anti-Deveron Gibbons for mayor campaign on the Web. What’s Wrong with Deveron? links to newspaper stories and campaign material referencing Gibbons from 2004 to present. The author goes by the name Keepin’ It Real. Bay Buzz had our Web staff do some…

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