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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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As legislative sessions go, 2016's came in like a lion and went out like a lamb.
This week's attempts at expanding gambling in Florida were not unexpected.
The Florida primary has been polled and re-polled, but is there a whole new voting bloc that the current estimates are leaving out - a bloc that could lead to another upset as big as Sanders winning Michigan despite huge polling numbers in Clinton's favor?
Florida, the largest swing state on the electoral map, will be on center stage this week as Democrats and Republicans vote in the presidential primaries.
Florida, the largest swing state on the electoral map, will be on center stage next week as Democrats and Republicans vote in the presidential primaries.
The four remaining Republican presidential candidates sparred on Thursday night in a debate held in South Florida on CNN. The clock’s ticking down to Tuesday’s primaries and the stakes are high as Marco Rubio and John Kasich need to carry their home states which hold winner take all primaries.
In the meantime, Donald Trump looked to build on his lead while Ted Cruz hoped to make it a one-on-one contest against the frontrunner.
Steve Crisafulli and I might not agree on every issue, but I can tell you with absolute certainty, the right man fell into place after Chris Dorworth lost his 2012 re-election and the path to the speaker's chair.
On the whiteboard outside the American Studies office of Purdue University appeared a swastika accompanied by an anti-Semitic slur.
Florida, the largest swing state on the electoral map, will be on center stage next week as Democrats and Republicans vote in the presidential primaries. In the coming days, Sunshine State News will present “What Candidate Have at Stake in Florida,” a look at what the remaining candidates have on the line in next Tuesday’s primary.
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By Kevin Derby
Gov. Rick Scott, R-Fla., announced that the state unemployment rate dropped to 5.6 percent in December as the state added 11,500 jobs. When Scott took office at the start of 2011, the state unemployment rate stood at 11.1 percent.
By Kevin Derby
From his perch as chairman of the U.S. House Veterans Affairs Committee, U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., is calling to give the secretary of Veterans Affairs more power to discipline incompetent senior executive service (SES) employees. Miller introduced a bill giving the VA secretary more flexibility in disciplining underperfoming SES employees, including reducing pensions, reducing time on forced paid administrative leave, reforming appraisals for bonus and adding more transparency.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., the chairman of the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, doubled down on his support of the FairTax proposal on Thursday.
Across Northeast Florida and the nation, citizens are spending billions of dollars and hours navigating a complex tax code time and money that could be better spent growing our economy and creating jobs, Crenhaw said on Thursday. Putting a FairTax in place solves that issue and deserves immediate consideration by Congress.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., one of the senior members sitting on the U.S. House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, wrote President Barack Obama on Thursday, vowing to work with the White House on free trade agreements. Buchanan supports the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
"In your State of the Union address you expressed a willingness to work with Congress on expanding international trade opportunities that will help grow the U.S. economy and create American jobs. Offer accepted, Buchanan wrote.
By Nancy Smith
No, sorry ... cool your jets, Charlie isn't standing trial.
But the former Republican governor-turned-independent-turned-Democratic governor-candidate showed up at the Pinellas County Justice Center this morning for jury duty.
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The trial to determine whether U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson's wife committed bigamy at the time of their marriage is being held up on account of breast implants.
Court documents filed this week said Lolita Grayson had been complaining of chest pain and went to the emergency room where they broke the news she'd have to go through emergency surgery to remove her leaking breast implants.
The court date was originally scheduled for Thursday but has now been moved to March. Grayson's surgery was scheduled for Monday.
By Nancy Smith
Government watchdog group Integrity Florida today called on federal authorities to investigate potential violations of the civil rights conspiracy statute by state government officials in Florida.
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After Blaise Ingoglia unseated Rick Scott's hand-picked Leslie Dougher as the Republican Party of Florida's newest chair, three prominent party staffers resigned from their positions.
By Nancy Smith
The American Federation for Children, which calls itself the nations voice for educational choice, released the following statement from executive counsel Kevin P. Chavous in response to President Obama's State of the Union address:
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One of the highlight's of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday will be a $500 tax credit for families with two earners -- a plan the White House says will benefit 24 million couples by covering "additional costs" in the average American household.
The problem is, however, that the $500 tax credit won't go very far.
White House administration officials have said the tax credit will benefit families earning up to $210,000, a number four times as much as the typical middle class income of $52,000.
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