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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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After a long three-year gap since their last exclusive sit-down interview with President Obama, you might think The New York Times would be ready to ask tough questions on the most contentious issues of the day, beginning with the deepening Obama scandals.
DETROIT -- In 1860, an uneasy Charles Darwin confided in a letter to a friend: "I had no intention to write atheistically" but "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars."
In his second term, Richard Nixon had Watergate, but also the rescue of Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
Is anyone else confused about the new standard of sexual propriety in the post-Clinton impeachment world? So much of what seemed to have been settled has been thrown into disarray this week.
We have a president who loves to give campaign speeches to adoring crowds, but who doesn't seem to have much interest in governing.
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By Kevin Derby
U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., introduced a bill on Tuesday authorizing the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to audit FEMAs National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
The Flood Insurance Integrity Act will require a review of the NFIP, and will provide transparency and shed much needed light on how flood rate maps are updated, Bilirakis said on Tuesday. The NFIP must be administered with integrity.
By Kevin Derby
A national poll released on Wednesday finds likely voters think the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) should be more focused on collecting taxes instead of ensuring Americans are compliant with President Barack Obamas federal health-care law.
The poll from Rasmussen Reports shows 65 percent think the IRS should keep its focus on taxes.Only 19 percent think the IRS should tackle ensuring Americans have health care and 15 percent are undecided.
The poll of 1,000 likely voters was taken from March 28-29 and had a margin of error of +/- 3 percent.
By Kevin Derby
On Wednesday, Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill rolling back $400 million in vehicle registration fees enacted in 2009 by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed into law by then-Gov. Charlie Crist. Despite spending most of his political career as a Republican, Crist is the favorite to win the Democratic nomination and challenge Scott in November.
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Over 500 years ago, Spanish explorerJuan Ponce de Le and his expedition spotted Florida.
At noon on April 2, 1513, Ponce de Les navigator, Anton de Alaminos, recorded their location just south of present-day Ponte Vedra Beach.Other explorers may have sighted Florida beforePonce de Le, but the Spanish explorer is the first to have documented his location in Florida.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., sent a letter this week to U.S. House Homeland Security Appropriations Chairman John Carter, R-Texas, and U.S. Rep. David Price, D-N.C., the ranking Democrat on that subcommittee, urging them to ensure there will be no funding on warrantless drone surveillance of U.S. citizens on U.S. territory for the next fiscal year.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., reached out to Gov. Tom Corbett, R-Pa., asking Pennsylvania state police to help in the continuing investigation of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna. Researchers from the University of South Florida (USF) hope to exhume the remains of Thomas Curry, a 15-year-old who was sent to Dozier in 1925 and died less than a month later due to a wound to the forehead, skull crushed from unknown cause though the circumstances of his death remain unknown.
By Kevin Derby
Lenny Curry, the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF), came out swinging at former Gov. Charlie Crist, the favorite for the Democratic nomination to challenge Gov. Rick Scott in November, on taxes on Wednesday morning. Going back to 2009, Curry hit Crist for relying on federal stimulus dollars and raising taxes in that years budget. Crist was a Republican at the time and the budget Curry attacked on Wednesday passed both the GOP-controlled House and Senate.
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Gov. Rick Scott presented the Governors Sports Award to Florida State University Head Coach Jimbo Fisher and the 2013 FSU football team on Tuesday for their athletic achievements and winning the 2014 BCS National Championship.
The Governors Sports Award is an award given to those who have made significant contributions to sports in Florida.
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Commissioner of Education Pam Stewart announced the five finalists for the 2014 Florida School-Related Employee of the Year award on Tuesday.
According to a press release, the award recognizes outstanding education support personnel for the significant contributions they make to their schools and communities.
The finalists are:
By Kevin Derby
Businessman Curt Clawson, running in the Republican primary to replace former U.S. Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla., in Congress, signed a pledge from Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) not to raise taxes. Clawsons two primary rivals -- Florida Senate Majority Leader Lizbeth Benacquisto, R-Fort Myers, and former state Rep. Paige Kreegel -- signed the ATR pledge earlier in the campaign.
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