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May 6, 2024 | 
wtxl.com | Channing Frampton |Sydney Walsh
More than 100 wild American Flamingos were counted across Florida in February. Many of the flamingos are believed to have flown here during Hurricane Idalia in 2023. Read the news release below to see why this count matters. AUDUBON NEWS RELEASE: In February, Audubon Florida organized an American Flamingo survey across the Sunshine State.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
lakegenevanews.net | Sydney Walsh
Foreman and her wife were the first lesbian couple married in Sarasota County in 2015, soon after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. For years, LGBTQ+ students knew they could talk to her. But since last year, those conversations have become tortured, she said. In one recent class, one of her students started crying, and asked Foreman to step outside. She'd just been dumped by her first girlfriend, in the middle of the school day, via text.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
lakegenevanews.net | Sydney Walsh
Even some Republicans seemed embarrassed by the excesses of the campaign. The local GOP disavowed the pro-ZEM PAC to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and two of the conservative candidates — Enos and Marinelli — denounced its mobile billboards. Marinelli was compelled to withdraw from a campaign event hosted by a member of the Proud Boys.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
lakegenevanews.net | Sydney Walsh
Another district teacher, who asked not to use her name because, like many younger educators in Florida, she's employed on a year-to-year contract, said the same law had recently dissuaded her from buying books for her classroom library since they'd all have to be vetted by a "media specialist" — a process that could take months.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
lakegenevanews.net | Sydney Walsh
"That school will end up an all-Black school," Foreman predicted — a reversion to the mid-1960s state of affairs before integration. Then, as historian Daniel Campbell has written, Sarasota underwent a similar convulsion, as a far-right faction aligned with the John Birch Society declared there was a left-wing conspiracy to infiltrate county schools. District and school administrators, as well as teachers, were accused of being communists or homosexuals.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
lakegenevanews.net | Sydney Walsh
But after all the controversy, graduation day was a success. Moricz, now 19, delivered a pointedly coded speech about the travails of being born with curly hair in Florida's humid climate: how he worried about the "thousands of curly-haired kids who are going to be forced to speak like this" — like he was, in code — "for their entire lives as students." Videos of the speech went viral. Donations poured into Moricz's youth-led nonprofit. That summer, he left to study government at Harvard.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
lakegenevanews.net | Sydney Walsh
SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. — On a Sunday afternoon in late May 2022, Zander Moricz, then class president of Sarasota County's Pine View School, spent the moments before his graduation speech sitting outside the auditorium, on the phone with his lawyers. Over the previous month, the question of what he'd say when he stepped to the podium had become national news.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
djournal.com | Sydney Walsh
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
mycouriertribune.com | Sydney Walsh
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
the-messenger.com | Sydney Walsh
Foreman and her wife were the first lesbian couple married in Sarasota County in 2015, soon after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. For years, LGBTQ+ students knew they could talk to her. But since last year, those conversations have become tortured, she said. In one recent class, one of her students started crying, and asked Foreman to step outside. She'd just been dumped by her first girlfriend, in the middle of the school day, via text.
