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Column: History repeats itself with brazen voter purges
Audacious is a word that consistently describes Florida’s Republican party and its leader Gov. Rick Scott.
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Column: Individual mandate needed in health care
Speaker of the House John Boehner is committed to “repealing Obamacare in its entirety,” stating that “anything short of that is unacceptable.” While the American public remains divided on the issue, the Republican Party is not.
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Column: No quick fix for the student loan debt crisis
Experts link high education levels with better health, work productivity and economic growth, but what happens when tuition costs continually increase, employment opportunities fizzle and student debt hits $904 billion? Since the 1990s the average tuition rate at 4-year universities have doubled.
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Column: Beyond black and white
After the shooting of Trayvon Martin in late February, police identified George Zimmerman as a white man. It’s no surprise that once the press got their hands on the story, the media sunk its teeth in, delighted to make headlines with another narrative on white-on-black crime.
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Column: Intoxication spray will create issues
As if our generation needed another excuse or pathway for intoxication, French-American scientist David Edwards has released a spray, which, when ingested, causes brief intoxication with no after-effects. No puking. No headaches. You can even pass an alcohol test.
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Column: Rise of the mainstream feminist
In an election year focused on resuscitating the struggling economy, few could have predicted the central role feminism is playing in political debates.
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Column: Trump could damage Romney’s campaign
Donald Trump simply won’t give it up. In another attempt to push the "birther" theory, Trump interviewed via telephone with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and repeated his claims denouncing President Barack Obama’s legitimacy to hold the highest office in the nation.
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Column: Human disregard plays into plastic bag ban
Los Angeles made history last week when it became the largest city to pass the much-discussed plastic bag ban, catalyzing the transition from a small-scale, grassroots movement to one that’s in the mainstream consciousness. According to the Los Angeles Times, the L.A.
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Tech review: Wireless headphones convenient, un‘beat’able
The reason every pair of headphones I have ever owned, maybe 12 in total, has broken is because the wire becomes frayed at the plug-in point and the sound cuts out of one ear, and then eventually the other. My new pair of headphones will never do that.