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Jackson: Triumphant Legg has skeptics
The Tampa TribuneJohn Legg, fresh (and remarkably energized, considering) from his debut in the Legislature's upper chamber, has returned to his two-county district feeling -- there is no other word for it -- triumphant. And why not? Following the hurly-burly that saw...Tags: Elections, Tampa, Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, School Examinations, Barack Obama
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Bob Graham: Legislators gave away too much on environment
The Florida Conservation Coalition was founded after the devastating legislative session of 2011 which rolled back 40 years of bi-partisan environmental stewardship. Since the 1970's Florida's governors and legislators, Democrats and Republicans, have...Tags: Natural Resources, Environmental Issues, Conservation, Everglades, Environmental Cleanup
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Florida Elections Commission: Donna Hayes' $3,000 fine late
Bradenton HeraldFormer Manatee County Commissioner Donna Hayes was ordered to pay a $3,000 fine after the Florida Elections Commission concluded she had misused excess campaign funds. The agency clerk said Thursday the fine remains unpaid, and the option to appeal...Tags: Elections, Political Candidates, Fines, Punishment, Local Elections
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Guilford raises? Maybe
The High Point Enterprise, N.C.County officials are still awaiting the results of a pay equity survey that could figure into employee raises next year. Many of the proposed department budgets commissioners have seen include amounts for merit raises. "We may have to put a pot of...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Pension and Welfare, Labor Legislation, Local Elections, Local Government
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Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla., Robert Trigaux column
Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla.If airline flights are shrinking nationally, those in Florida are (pardon the phrase) on a crash diet. Airline mergers, belt tightening and a recession that cut demand for air travel combined to contract the number of airline departures at U.S. airports...Tags: Southwest Airlines Co., Tampa, American Airlines, Inc., Air Transportation Industry, Transportation Accidents
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Photos, Video: Florida Cabinet, on the road again
Orlando SentinelGovernor Rick Scott and his cabinet made one of their semi-regular road trips out of Tallahassee for a cabinet meeting, this time to Orlando's Lake Nona, at the Nemours Children's Hospital, Wednesday. Scott was joined by Attorney General Pam Bondi, CFO...Tags: Pam Bondi, Government, Executive Branch, Jeffrey Atwater, John Hitt
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EDITORIAL: Vindication for Harry Sawyer on early elections
Florida Keys KeynoterSometimes, it does feel good to be proven right. That's how former Monroe County Elections Supervisor Harry Sawyer must be feeling now, as he enjoys retirement, knowing his push for extended early voting windows will soon become law -- again. On...Tags: Elections, Marathon, U.S. Department of Justice, Local Elections, Barack Obama
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Dolphins owner Steve Ross blasts House Speaker Weatherford
South Florida Sun SentinelMiami Dolphins owner Steve Ross blasted House Speaker Will Weatherford in a statement Friday night, saying he had reneged on a promise to give the Sun Life Stadium renovation plan a vote. Here is Ross' full statement: "Tonight, Speaker Weatherford did...Tags: Elections, Super Bowl, National Football League, Miami Dolphins, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida)
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Florida's shame: the Florida House
The legislative session ended Friday with state lawmakers scurrying out of Tallahassee with the one thing 3.8 million of their fellow Floridians lack — decent health care. Poor constituent service? You betcha. Missed opportunity? Huge. One out...
Tags: Tampa, Rick Scott, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate, Government Health Care
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The Bradenton Herald Vin Mannix column
Bradenton HeraldNone of the questions state Rep. Jim Boyd faced Tuesday morning had to do with the state's Medicaid impasse, teacher raises or ethics reform. Rather, fifth-graders at Rogers Garden Elementary School wanted to know other things. To wit: ? Who's his...Tags: Elections, NAACP, Rick Scott, Florida State University, Ethics
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Dierdre Macnab: Here's what we learned from this year's legislative session
Florida citizens, this is no time to take your eyes off the Legislature in Tallahassee. For those who have political fatigue after the frenzied past two years of endless presidential campaigns, remember: Tallahassee is where Florida's future and our...Tags: Elections, Values, Religion and Belief, Tom Lee, Winter Park
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FAMU names Sylvester Young as new marching band director
Sylvester Young, a former music professor at Ohio University, has been selected as FAMU's new marching band director. Officials at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee announced early last month that they were interviewing two people for the job of...
Tags: Music, Florida Classic, Entertainment, Hazing, University of Missouri
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