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Mitch PerrySeptember 21, 2015

Fourteen-year-old Andrew Joseph III was killed Feb. 7, 2014, as he tried to cross Interstate 4 in Tampa on foot just west of U.S. 301. He had been kicked out of the Florida State Fair for alleged disorderly conduct. He was among the more than 100 young people ejected that night after a stampede of teenagers had […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 15, 2015

No, Hillary Clinton is not losing the race for the Democratic Primary, not if you take the Real Clear Politics average of the national spread between her and Bernie Sanders. She’s up overall by 21 percentage points. But in the first in the nation voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire? It’s a completely different […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 22, 2015

Republicans “want to take us backwards,” Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday morning, taking specific aim throughout her comments at Florida Republican Presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio. Wasserman-Schultz pivoted into a critique of many members of the Republican field on equal pay issues, saying that “not only do […]

Mitch PerryJuly 31, 2015

In his first speech in Florida since becoming a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, Vermont democratic socialist U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders delivered a searing indictment of the American capitalist system. He also spoke in strong terms about reforming the criminal justice system, in response to the string black people’s deaths while in detained by […]

Mitch PerryJuly 31, 2015

Greetings from the Extended Stay America motel in Fort Lauderdale, just a few blocks from the Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center. That’s where three of the Democrats running for president: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley will address the thousands gathered at the National Urban League’s annual meeting. The event comes a couple of […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 21, 2015

Luther Campbell is best known globally for his work in 2 Live Crew. As it happens, though, he’s reinvented himself many times over: as an entrepreneur, and now, as a columnist for the Miami New Times. Tuesday’s column calls attention to “a rash of homicides” in the Miami area, after which “there have been no marches or […]

Associated PressJuly 6, 2015

A statue of Andrew Jackson in downtown Jacksonville has been vandalized twice in the past week. The Florida Times-Union reports that graffiti was sprayed on the statue of the seventh president over the weekend. Jackson was also Florida’s military governor in 1821 after the territory was acquired from Spain. Large orange letters spelled out “Black […]

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Stephanie Haridopolos. Image via USF.

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