Tag / Florida
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Resolutions That Stick
My resolutions come to me as they please. I don’t set my sights firmly on one when the New Year comes around. Instead, they take a bit of time to crystallize out of thin air – kind of like brainstorming ideas for a WUPR piece. I’m here to advocate for letting resolutions come to you.…
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Splitting the Ticket: The Gap Between Statewide Races and Ballot Initiatives
Looking past the top line numbers in the House and Senate, one of the most interesting results of the midterm elections is the gap between ballot initiatives and statewide races in red and purple states. The results of the statewide races clearly show the strength of partisan polarization. Incumbent Democratic senators lost in Missouri and…
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Deconstructing the Harvey Experience
I’ll start with a few statistics. Over the course of six days from August 24th to the 30th, Hurricane Harvey dumped an estimated 27 trillion gallons of water onto the area from the tip of Texas to Louisiana. As observed by Vox, that’s approximately 1 million gallons of water for every inhabitant of the state…
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Neoliberalism and Climate Change
The effects of climate change, long warned about but always seemingly far off in the consciousness of ordinary people, are already here, and they’re deadly. Harvey and Irma have devastated American coastlines in quick succession, causing unprecedented damage and ruining countless lives. India has been pummeled by severe flooding in recent years, one instance of…
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Patriotism Trumps Politics
I hear something in Hebrew. I look back, confused, at the woman behind the counter. She switches languages and says, “Ah of course, you are American. How will you be paying?” I hand her my credit card and she responds, “thank you. So you are American. How do you feel about Trump?” This exchange was…
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Medical Marijuana is a Farce
BY JOE LENOFF On November 4, my home state of Florida voted on the legal permissibility of medical marijuana. It failed, but it is still significant that Florida voters went to the polls to decide whether the state would become the 24th in the country to approve medical marijuana. Medical marijuana is a nonsensical term…
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The battle for Florida has turned ugly. More than policies, more than ideologies, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are trading blows at the lowest level of politics: personal attacks. After last week’s debates, Gingrich made it known that he was unhappy over the decision to disallow audience members from…
