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Besides the public’s opposition to arming teachers, there’s plenty of evidence it can be downright dangerous. New Times has identified a litany of troubling incidents involving Florida educators and guns, including many that have gone previously unreported.

Eric Swalwell’s first stop on the campaign trail will be a town hall at the BB&T Center in Sunrise with Parkland families.

On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union cautioned immigrants and people of color about traveling to Florida. The travel advisory comes in response to two “anti-sanctuary” bills currently moving through the state Legislature.

In response to the Green New Deal, Rep. Matt Gaetz is proposing a competing plan, snarkily titled the “Green Real Deal.” The problem with the plan, however, is that it sucks. If America relies solely on the provisions in Gaetz’s plan, the planet will cook and the seas will swallow us whole.

Pastor Allen B. Jackson is one of the few community leaders who still support former Sheriff Scott Israel. But he has a very strong financial reason — $36,000 a year in taxpayers’ money to be exact — to praise the former sheriff.

Last month, GOP legislators introduced bills that would require offenders to pay back court fees before they become eligible to vote. The Florida ACLU will hold sit-ins to urge lawmakers to oppose any further restrictions on felon voting rights.

A Florida bill that would force minors to get parental consent for abortions passed the House Judiciary Committee yesterday. The ACLU warns the bill will hurt underage girls if enacted.

On Wednesday morning, Parkland dad Fred Guttenberg posted a photo of the letter he received from the NRA condemning gun-control “extremists” who “threaten your individual liberties.” Guttenberg responded, “My daughter was the only one to lose freedom.”

Arguably the most important rule for visiting South Beach is this: Watch out for overzealous towing companies. Tow companies for years have preyed on unsuspecting tourists and residents alike — in 2013, New Times wrote in a longform feature that Miami Beach’s towing companies were orchestrating a “decades-long, politically sanctioned operation to hold people’s cars for ransom for hundreds of dollars” and were raking in millions each year by outright tricking drivers into parking illegally using all sorts of schemes.

A year and a half after Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico, the island is still recovering. Borinqueños continue to face power outages and water shortages. The agriculture industry is rebuilding from the storm’s damage to local crops. But President Donald Trump and Congress are sparring over aid. After Senate Democrats blocked a…

Embattled political operative, Roger Stone, is scheduled to speak at Deerfield Beach’s TrumpFest rally and the Trump 2020 Team Florida fundraiser in Oakland Park on Saturday.

The modern anti-immigrant movement in America was largely created by white nationalists and eugenicists. One of the nation’s loudest voices is a group called the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, which was founded in 1979 by John Tanton, a doctor who believed in eugenics. Tanton received funding from his…

A quick history refresher: After President Abraham Lincoln freed America’s slaves during the Civil War, white Southerners spent a great deal of time devising ingenious and evil ways of preventing black people from voting. Those restrictions morphed into the “Jim Crow” laws — among them were poll taxes, which forced…