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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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PHOENIX -- Sal DiCiccio says hes sorry. It is, he says, no excuse that the complex labor contracts that he, as a member of the city council, voted to ratify for city employees were presented to the council less than a week before the vote.
If you fly across the country, its easy to see signs of Americas ingenuity and productivity skyscrapers in New York City, steel mills in Pennsylvania, factories in Chicago, farmland in the Great Plains, and the glittering technology of Silicon Valley.
There have been many frauds of historic proportions -- for example, the financial pyramid scheme for which Charles Ponzi was sent to prison in the 1920s, and for which Franklin D. Roosevelt was praised in the 1930s, when he called it Social Security. In our own times, Bernie Madoff's hoax has made headlines.
In the cold, gray numbers of election returns and exit poll percentages, a reader with some imagination can find clues to people's deep feelings, their hopes and fears, their self-images and moral values.
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WASHINGTON -- Two policies of the Obama administration illustrate an axiom: As government expands, its lawfulness contracts.
WASHINGTON -- It's Lucy and the football, Iran-style. After ostensibly tough talk about preventing Iran from going nuclear, the Obama administration acquiesced to yet another round of talks with the mullahs.
After the not so "Super" Tuesday results, pundits and experts predicted a much longer march to the Republican National Convention to be held in Tampa. Many experts believe Mitt Romney will ultimately gain the required delegates to win the nomination prior to the convention.
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By Kevin Derby
On Tuesday, Second Amendment defenders Florida Carry testified in defense of the states Stand Your Ground law. Eric Friday, the lead attorney for Florida Carry, testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee in defense of the law.
Florida Carry promised on Tuesday night to defend the law in the political and judicial arenas.
"The idea that a person who acts to save a life should be punished along with the criminal is disgusting." said Sean Caranna, the executive director of Florida Carry.
By Nancy Smith
Sen. Joe Negron, R-Stuart, told Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers (STCN) he's "feeling the momentum building toward a President Obama visit" to the polluted St. Lucie estuary and Indian River Lagoon.
By Kevin Derby
A group connected to former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, took aim at President Barack Obama on Tuesday over the continuing federal shutdown.
The Campaign for Liberty, which Paul chairs, came out swinging at Obama as Norm Singleton, the vice president of policy for the group, bashed the president in an email to supporters.
By Kevin Derby
On Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announced that Saturday, Oct. 12, will be a saltwater license-free fishing day.
By Kevin Derby
A new poll finds a major partisan divide on the federal shutdown.
Rasmussen Reports released a survey on Tuesday which finds 82 percent of Democrats want to end the shutdown and keep President Barack Obamas health care law funded. But a majority of Republicans -- 71 percent -- want the shutdown going until the law is defunded. Voters outside the two major parties are divided, with 47 percent wanting the shutdown to continue in order to defund the health care law and 44 percent wanting the shutdown to end.
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A Senate panel will consider two proposals to revise Florida's controversial Stand Your Ground law on Tuesdaythat would require law enforcement agencies to set guidelines for neighborhood watch programs.
One bill was written by Sen. David Simmons, R-Altamonte Springs, who originally drafted the statute nearly 10 years ago.
By Kevin Derby
As he continues his bid for the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., former state Rep. Carl Domino ripped into the incumbent and President Barack Obama on Tuesday over the federal shutdown.
By Kevin Derby
America should count itself fortunate that four of our first five presidents -- George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe -- did not have sons that survived to adulthood. Otherwise the early days of our republic would have featured presidential elections which would have seemed like wars of dynastic ambitions. There were certainly some political dynasties -- the Adams family, the Harrisons, the Pierces, the Tylers, the Van Burens, the Lincolns and even a populist like Andrew Jackson whose nephew Andrew Jackson Donelson ran for vice president.
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Abraham Lincoln famously declared at Gettysburg that the Founding Fathers "brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal," but a new Rasmussen Reports poll shows half of Americans think the Founding Fathers would view the nation they created as a failure today.
By Kevin Derby
Former U.S. Rep. Allen West weighed in on Monday on the capture of Abu Anas al Libi, the al-Qaida leader captured by American military forces in recent days for his role in planning terrorist attacks in Africa. West expressed strong disapproval of plans to try al Libi as a criminal and insisted he should be held as a prisoner of war at Guantanamo Bay.
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