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Voters have to decide in coming weeks whether to raise their property taxes to help pay for costs of running local schools.
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The Lutz team’s coach is using the exercise to build character. Here’s his letter.
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![President Joe Biden delivers remarks at an event to celebrate the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act on the South Lawn of the White House on July 11, 2022. Calling the new law "the most significant gun violence reduction legislation in the last 30 years," the White House invited lawmakers, gun violence victims and other supporters to the White House to commemorate its passage.](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 562 316"/%3E "President Joe Biden delivers remarks at an event to celebrate the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act on the South Lawn of the White House on July 11, 2022. Calling the new law \"the most significant gun violence reduction legislation in the last 30 years,\" the White House invited lawmakers, gun violence victims and other supporters to the White House to commemorate its passage.")
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/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/2UQPSAYTSDQHCRMPVETTAPMS2M.jpg "Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., second from left, gestures to Sen. Marco Rubio, D-Fla., as Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., and Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., center, react along with members of the Florida Congressional Delegation, during the unveiling of a state statue from Florida of Mary McLeod Bethune, in Statuary Hall on Wednesday")
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/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/GWLLJFC7UC2X3344MLZ22SU62E.jpg "Abortion-rights activist rally at the Indiana Statehouse following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 25, 2022, in Indianapolis. The lawyer for an Indiana doctor who has found herself at the center of a political firestorm after revealing the story of a 10-year-old girl who traveled from Ohio for an abortion says her client provided proper treatment. (AP Photo/AJ Mast, File)")
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/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/P7OZE2LLNHUTSCHP5NAEXY7XQY.jpg "School is the place where childhood happens.")
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