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Check Out the Point-Counterpoint on Controversial Workers' Comp Drug Repackaging Bill

The insurance industry claims physicians overprice for dispensing drugs to workers' comp patients in their own offices. Physicians say no we don't, we keep prices as low as we're able considering we're not Walgreen's, which "buys in" pills by the million.

A meeting of the Senate Health Regulation Committee, postponed last week, has been rescheduled for 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, 412 Knott Building.

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Chaos Now Front-runner in Florida Senate President Race

Rumor squashed: Andy Gardiner is not leaving the Florida Senate president race.

Much to the chagrin of Don Gaetz, John Thrasher and Jack Latvala, Andy Gardiner is not dropping out of the 2014 Florida Senate President race, sources tell Sunshine State News.

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Ron Paul Reels In His Own Donor Whale, Peter Thiel

Ron Paul has his own billionaire now.

True, the Texas congressman built a reputation on his army of small donors, but in this day and age, a presidential candidate needs a mountain of cash to keep on trucking -- especially when he's not on top of the pack.

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Arizona's Hardline Anti-Immigration Sheriff Paul Bebau, GOP Star, Outed as Gay by His Mexican Lover

In the strange-but-all-too-true department ...

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What? Occupy Wall Street Has a Super-PAC?

What's that you say? The group screaming loudest about putting bloated amounts of money into politics is doing what?

Putting bloated amounts of money into politics, that's what.

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Political Consultant Doug Guetzloe Found Guilty on Fed Tax Charges

Central Florida political consultant Doug Guetzloe was found guilty Wednesday afternoon of failing to file tax returns -- in what the Orlando Sentinel calls "the latest setback" in his scrimmage with the Internal Revenue Service.

It took a 12-member jury only 30 minutes to find Guetzloe, one of the founders of the Florida TEA Party, guilty of two misdemeanor counts of wilful failure to file tax returns. He now faces up to two years in federal prison. Sentencing is scheduled for May 21.

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Tax E-Commerce Companies? Don't Do It

In case you missed John Sununu's column in The Boston Globe on the wrong-headedness of states taxing e-commerce companies -- and the sheer arrogance of giant predators like Walmart to demand it, check it out here.

And pay close attention, Florida.

Some of the Sunshine State's biggest guns are doing the big-boxer's bidding, promoting an Internet sales tax this legislative session.

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Miami Called Forbes' No. 1 'Most Miserable City' in America

Considering its penchant for appealing to a millionaire and billionaire readership, Forbes magazine has some nerve picking the nation's most miserable cities. But that's what its editors do. Every year.

And this year it chose as its No. 1 most miserable city in America ... Miami.

They used a formula, an index, that combines unemployment and inflation. In deciding what cities make the list, the editors base their take "on the things people complain about on a regular basis," looking at 10 factors for the 200 largest metro areas in the U.S.

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Mitt Romney Coasts in Nevada

Speaking at his Nevada caucus victory party at the Red Rocks Resort and Casino in Las Vegas Saturday night, Mitt Romney sounded every bit a winner.

While thanking the Silver State for giving him his second consecutive win and the largest share of the state's 28 delegates, the GOP presidential front-runner traveled the high road all the way. He mentioned not a single one of his opponents by name and stayed focused on President Barack Obama's record.

He repeated his oft-made promise to repeal the federal health-care law, grow jobs and increase military spending.

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Tim Tebow: I Could Go Into Politics

During an interview Saturday night with Dave Feherty, host of the Golf Channel's "Feherty Live," Denver Broncos quarterback and former Florida Gator star Tim Tebow said he could one day explore politics "if it's something I care about."

"I don't know -- it could be something in my future," Tebow said. "If it's something I care about, possibly."

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