* “I told you so.” I’m afraid we’re going to hear that before too long. It will be because someone on a scooter will have been seriously injured or killed. And some official in St. Pete will explain again why that hipster city had decided on watchful waiting instead of giving the go-ahead for scooters.
* When it comes to school mascots, Florida State University makes a good model. Seminoles are not depicted as some demeaning Sunshine State Chief Wahoo. The Seminole Tribe gets a percentage of paraphernalia sales, and the Seminoles have an embedded curricular place in the teaching of Florida history. The school board should keep context in mind when looking at Hillsborough Native American school mascots and ethnic stereotypes. In Tallahassee, Chief Osceola and Renegade are points of pride–not parody.