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3 weeks ago | 
flamingomag.com | Dave Seminara
by Dave Seminara | May 15, 2025 Denied at UF & FSU: The New Reality for Florida’s Brightest Students On a Friday afternoon in February last year, Tate Keber was waiting for an admissions e-mail from the University of Florida that she thought would validate her years of hard work and service to her community. Everyone told her she was a slam-dunk candidate to be admitted to the Gators’ Class of 2028—and for good reason.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Ross Clark |Dave Seminara |Alex Castellanos |Jonathan Miller
What did Donald Trump tell us outside the White House? According to the President, tariffs will lead to a boom in the economy, bringing in almost $8 trillion of investment as overseas firms rush to establish factories in the US to feed the market without incurring tariffs. On that, he is likely to be disappointed.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Ross Clark |John Carney |Dave Seminara |Will Prescott
What did Donald Trump tell us outside the White House? According to the President, tariffs will lead to a boom in the economy, bringing in almost $8 trillion of investment as overseas firms rush to establish factories in the US to feed the market without incurring tariffs. On that, he is likely to be disappointed.
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2 months ago | 
flamingomag.com | Dave Seminara
by Dave Seminara | March 10, 2025 How To Attend the Miami Open Like a Pro 40 years ago, Butch Buchholz, a former player and president of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) brought a tennis tournament to South Florida with an ambitious goal: to create a two-week tournament like the sport’s four majors (The Austrailian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open) but organized and run by players. The 1985 Lipton International Players Championships was a bit of a mess.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Dave Seminara
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The Beat writer Jack Kerouac, who lived and died in St. Petersburg in the 1960s, said that the city was ideal for the “newlywed and the nearly dead.” Kerouac wouldn’t recognize the city now. It’s a booming and contradictory place that’s cool but unpretentious, with a thriving gay scene and an abundance of Midwestern exiles who don’t do winter.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Dave Seminara |Katja Hoyer |Ross Clark |Grace Curley
Matt McCaw doesn’t want to live anywhere but in Oregon. But during the pandemic he felt like he was living under tyrannical rule imposed by the state’s progressive majority in metro Portland. The school that his six children attended closed for more than a year due to a state mandate — and they received just four hours of online instruction per week. His church was forced to close, and his business selling textbooks suffered because school districts were buying online curricula, not physical books.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
city-journal.org | Dave Seminara
It’s been a brutal few weeks for my adopted hometown of St. Petersburg, Florida. Hurricane Helene battered us with a six-foot storm surge on September 27, and Hurricane Milton brought 17 inches of rainfall and near 100 miles-per-hour winds less than a fortnight later. My home was miraculously spared from flood damage both times, but many of my friends and neighbors lost everything. More than a week after Milton, our city is still a mess.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Dave Seminara
Kamikochi: Japan's car-free town that autumn hikers loveAlamyWith a record 35 million foreign visitors expected in Japan this year, Kamikochi is an idyllic, relaxing break from some of the country's more heavily touristed destinations. Nestled in the Japanese Alps at 1,500m elevation, the seasonal resort town of Kamikochi is an idyllic, car-free getaway with cool, crisp mountain air, riverside hiking trails and an abundance of Japanese snow monkeys.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Dave Seminara
One night last week I got a robocall asking me to participate in a candidate town hall. “If you’d like to ask Ed Montanari a question, press star three,” a female voice instructed me as I joined the call to satisfy my curiosity.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Zoe Strimpel |Matthew Parris |Dave Seminara |Jonathan Spyer
When Black Lives Matter created the figure of the Karen, it was a sign of that movement’s darker, bullying qualities. What exactly was wrong with a white middle-aged woman who asked to speak to the manager when things were unsatisfactory? The answer seemed to be in the white part and the woman part, and perhaps also in the middle-aged part.
