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by Jim Hightower

Wall Street’s financial elites are robust promoters of trickle-down economics. Provide special breaks for us speculators, they say, so we can amass royal fortunes—then, someday, someway, our massive gains will magically trickle down to the lower classes— (maybe).

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by Robbie Sipes

“I wear black on the outside because black is how I feel on the inside.” -the Smiths

So, since St. Patrick’s Day has green beer, now Halloween has its own official libation, a black vodka called Blavod.

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Because minorities tend to vote Democrat, there is already a built-in structural disadvantage by dint of inefficient polling places in minority neighborhoods. But the clever obstructionist realizes that a few more percentage points can be shaved from the “D” tally by introducing procedural impediments that will “gum up the works” and slow things down even more.
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Rating my five favorite Gainesville bands of the last five years is not an easy task. At first, I attempted to address the issue in a kind of objective way. But then I discovered the disingenuousness of such an approach. Music is emotional, visceral, and subjective. And, of course, I would have it no other way: Music should be all those things. So here are—without consideration of genre, trend, or anything—my favorite Gainesville bands of the last five years.

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