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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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WASHINGTON -- The first question to Hillary Clinton from an audience member during Monday night's Democratic town hall in Iowa must have been a blow from one so young -- a potential new voter -- this close to the caucuses.
Legislators, don't sign off on the Seminole Compact until you uncouple "decoupling."
When Tampa Bay Downs Thoroughbred trainer and Massachusetts transplant Laurine Fuller-Vargas recently heard that Florida legislators were considering the possibility of decoupling horse racing from slot machines, she put her anger into immediate action, walking the businesses in her hometown of Morristown, knocking on doors and distributing literature on NoDecoupling.com to spread the word among her fellow horsemen that their livelihoods could actually come to an end if Florida were to enact the misguided policy.
WASHINGTON -- China produces an astonishing number of astonishing numbers, including this: In the 20th century, America made automobiles mass-consumption items, requiring prodigious road building. China, however, poured more concrete for roads and other construction between 2011 and 2013 than America did in the 20th century. This fact is emblematic of China's remarkable success. And is related to its current difficulties, including its 2015 growth rate (6.9 percent), its slowest in 25 years.
Hillary Clinton is running headlong into the same anti-establishment malaise that has plagued Jeb Bush for the last seven months -- only Democrat-style. And her Florida friend, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, is suffering right along with her.
WASHINGTON -- During Watergate, Henry Kissinger's mordant wit leavened the unpleasantness: "The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer." President Obama often does both simultaneously, using executive authoritarianism to evade the Constitution's separation of powers and rewrite existing laws.
What is the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, right?
The second week of the legislative session in Tallahassee offered something of a contrast to a relatively calm first week as a lower state revenue estimate caused some concerns and campus carry once again looks dead in the Senate.
Sean Penn has long been the poster boy for the Hollywood left, another one of those overpaid dilettantes who constantly berate the country that's given him international fame and incredible wealth. Penn's loathing of Yankee imperialism is so intense that he thinks America is "over-demonizing" a Mexican drug kingpin that Forbes magazine estimates is responsible for the deaths of 34,000 people -- mostly Mexicans.
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By Kevin Derby
Gov. Rick Scott focused on rural road improvement on Thursday, appearing in Belle Glade to focus on how that town, Pahokee and South Bay will receive $3.8 million in his Rural Areas of Opportunity program.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., will hold a public event on Mental Health and Substance Abuse at Rasmussen College in Land O' Lakes next week and he will be joined by a congressman from Pennsylvania. Bilirakis announced on Thursday that U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., will be at the event on Tuesday.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., saw his Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Actpass the U.S. House last week and expects the U.S. Senate to pass it in the coming days, but now he is looking to rename the bill after a supporter of it who passed away earlier this week.
By Kevin Derby
On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., issued his take on the omnibus federal spending bill currently in Congress. Rubio insisted the bill was flawed but praised it for not providing bailouts to insurance companies in the wake of President Barack Obamas federal health-care law.
By Kevin Derby
Gov. Rick Scott named Julie Jones as secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) on Wednesday. Jones will take the post on Jan. 5.
By Kevin Derby
With the U.S. Senate voting this week to impose sanctions and freezing the assets of key leaders of the Maduro regime, Gov. Rick Scott applauded the move.
By Kevin Derby
Democrats in the Florida congressional delegation weighed in on Tuesday after the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, still controlled by Democrats until the GOP takes over in January, released extended details on how the CIA obtained intelligence on terrorism, including using torture techniques.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee and used to sit on the Senate Intelligence Committee, backed the decision to release this information.
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Most Americans are strongly convinced that their local police protect and serve and give them high marks for their jobs, according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll released Tuesday.
The poll found 67 percent of American adults see the average police officer as a protector, while only 11 percent view the average police officer as a threat.
By Kevin Derby
Gov. Rick Scott announced on Tuesday that he was keeping Barbara Palmer as director of the Agency for Persons with Disabilities (APD). Palmer took over the post in August 2012 after serving as chief of staff for the agency for a year and, before that, working as an assistant secretary for administration at the Department of Children and Families.
By Kevin Derby
Former first lady Barbara Bush made a splash when she said she hopes former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla., does not follow in his fathers and brothers footsteps and runs for president. But the former first lady now wants her son to run for president in 2016. Neil Bush talked to Bloomberg and said his mother was now ready for the former Florida governor to run for president.
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