This week's most read stories include: The demise of the FCAT, drinking beer and practicing yoga, the golden years of marijuana smuggling and six plaintiffs who plan to fight the state’s ban on gay marriage.
: Children of Florida rejoice: The FCAT is dead. The exam’s death, though, does not mark the end of standardized testing in Florida. The non-profit American Institutes for Research has been picked to design a new exam aligning with Common Core standards.
: At one point I-95 was “a 600-mile bong through which pot was pulled into the lungs of the country,” says Tony Dokoupil in his new book “The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana."
: As much as we try we can’t seem to stop finding themes in our weekly top 10 poetry submissions for our #ThisIsWhere poetry series, here's this week's theme: the "unobvious."
Craft-beer drinkers and yoga practitioners may not always find themselves in the same room -- unless they attend Om Brew Yoga, which ends with a pint of craft beer.
: After the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act last year, Equality Florida saw an opportunity to fight the state’s ban on gay marriage. They sent out a request for plaintiffs' love stories and received 1,200 responses.