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ADAM PUTNAM HASN'T HAD AN OPPONENT AS TOUGH AS RON DESANTIS

In any normal election year, Adam Putnam would be a shoo-in to be the next Florida governor. He has been courting and charming conservative activists across the state for years. He can fire up crowds big and small with red-meat partisan speeches; he's sharp and deeply informed about Florida issues; and, most importantly, he is blowing away fundraising records. His Republican rival, Ron DeSantis? Prospective supporters and congressional colleagues are at least as likely to describe him as smug as they are charming. He can struggle to hold a big crowd's attention. He is new to Florida issues, and his money raising has underwhelmed. But this is the Donald Trump era, when career politicians are especially suspect.

'IT WAS MY JOB, AND I DIDN'T FIND HIM,' STONEMAN DOUGLAS RESOURCE OFFICER LAMENTS

It was in some ways the most simple kind of crime to solve: committed by one perpetrator who had surrendered and then confessed within an hour, and yet months later half a dozen inquiries remained underway, each an attempt to derive sense and order from seven chaotic minutes. The FBI was reviewing its threat response. A governor's commission was examining school security failures. School resource officer Scot Peterson had been doing his own investigating, too, studying dozens of pages of documents inside his duplex. He'd re-watched surveillance footage and read witness statements, searching for a way to reconcile the deputy he believed he was with the coward who was maligned each day in the national news.

VOTE CENTERS: THE NEXT BIG THING IN FLORIDA ELECTIONS?

Florida voters spoke loudly in the 2016 presidential election: More than two-thirds of them voted early or by mail, not on election day. That clear preference has county elections officials thinking about a big change to the use of regional vote centers in the future. An increasingly mobile society and the widespread support for early voting makes it inevitable, experts say, that people will vote at regional sites.

DEVELOPERS PUSH SCALED BACK VERSION OF CONTROVERSIAL BEZU CONDO TOWER

Four months after the St. Petersburg City Council rejected plans for the 23-story downtown condo tower, developers are seeking approval of a scaled-down version of Bezu that they say would be more compatible with the historic Flori de Leon apartments next door. But Flori residents and other opponents are expected to turn out in force again Wednesday when the proposal goes before the city's Development Review Commission, which said "no" to the Bezu initially.

THE EIGHT JAMEIS WINSTON INTERCEPTIONS THAT DEFENDERS DROPPED

A Football Outsiders analysis found that defenders dropped eight potential Jameis Winston interceptions. Only Kirk Cousins and Matthew Stafford, with nine, had more. There is some subjectivity in determining what is a dropped interception. We also don't know the play calls or whether receivers ran the routes as they were designed. So Thomas Bassinger went back and watched the eight passes that Winston defenders dropped. His takeaways: There wasn't very much gray area. They were outright drops, or very close to it.

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