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  • Florida joins seven states with updated domestic violence policies

    From 2000 to 2020, in Leon County alone, domestic violence offenses increased by about 33%, but domestic violence-related arrests decreased by approximately 40%, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. And those were just the reported cases.  While the causes of the rise (and fall) of offenses and arrests are too complex to blame just one…

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  • Lawmakers, public-sector unions at odds

    In the late 1800s in New York City, the Central Labor Union sought to introduce a radical concept to capitalism: community over rugged individualism.  On Sept. 5, 1882, the first Labor Day was created to celebrate the spirit of the working class and organize across trades. Despite the annual festivities that the first Monday of…

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