Tag: Florida State

Associated PressOctober 12, 2015
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With recent shootings on college campuses in Oregon and Arizona, Tallahassee Community College president Jim Murdaugh has received plenty of questions from staff and students about Florida’s plans to deal with such incidents. The main thing he has stressed to them is that everything has been well planned. “I would say Florida has been progressive […]

Adam WeinsteinJanuary 8, 2015

4min225
New Year’s resolutions posing as columns always seem a little cheap. They seem even cheaper when they emerge a week into the New Year. But 2014 was tough on Floridians in many respects. The economy swelled, but so did our distractions and our frustrations — with each other and occasionally with ourselves. A better 2015 […]

Julie DelegalOctober 26, 2014

7min175
Ferguson. Sanford. Tallahassee. What do these three cities have in common? It’s not what you might think. It has nothing to do with perceived arch-villains such as Darren Wilson, George Zimmerman, or Jameis Winston. I don’t believe in arch-villains. I do believe, though, in the predictability of human nature. Sometimes, human beings behave badly. And […]

Adam WeinsteinSeptember 25, 2014

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It’s all over now but the glad-handing. As the insider Board of Trustees planned all along, John Thrasher will be the next president of Florida State University. Even though he’s prevented by law from lobbying on FSU’s behalf for the next two years- — and lobbying expertise was supposed to be his strong selling point. […]

Adam WeinsteinSeptember 11, 2014

10min196
Two years ago, a Florida state senator introduced a bill “to halt the revolving door between the Legislature and state universities” and bar lawmakers from running to jobs at colleges they fund. He explained to the Florida Times-Union that “even in cases where lawmakers are doing everything ethically,” such a relationship could raise “red flags,” adding: “It […]


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