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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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Sept. 10, 2001, was a strange day for me.
In Cairo in 1943, when the tide had turned in the war on Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, who had embraced Joseph Stalin as an ally and acceded to his every demand, had a premonition.
The race for the Republican presidential nomination finally seems to be gelling.
Two major anniversaries will soon be celebrated in the Sunshine State.
WASHINGTON -- Liberal certitudes continue to dissolve, the most recent solvent being a robust new defense of a 1905 Supreme Court decision that liberals have long reviled -- and misrepresented.
When I was a young lawyer in Miami, I found myself in depositions day after day with two far more experienced lawyers who just couldnt get along.
Congress comes back this week from its monthlong August recess to a pile of legislation that needs immediate attention.
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By Kevin Derby
Over the weekend, former U.S. Rep. Allen West ripped into President Barack Obamas understanding of the Founding Fathers and the republican experiment.
By Kevin Derby
Florida Senate President Pro Tempore Garrett Richter, R-Naples, was honored as a Champion of Small Business" by the National Coalition for Capital last week. Richter was honored for his work supporting the Florida New Markets tax credit.
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Allie Braswell withdrew Monday from his campaign to be Florida's next chief financial officer, according to reports. Braswell, a Democrat, had been in the race for less than a week.
Current CFO Jeff Atwater's camp did not sound too concerned about Braswell entering the race.
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State officials are considering the idea of raising toll rates on I-95 from $1 to $1.50 due to the fact that too many drivers are willing to pay the current toll rate when congestion is at its worst on Florida highways.
"What that tells us is that a lot of folks are accepting the express lanes concept and are using them more frequently," Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, executive director of Florida's Turnpike, told Sun Sentinel.
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Americans overwhelmingly believe that the U.S. is failing to win the so-called war on drugs, but a new poll of likely American voters show they are much more divided on how much the U.S. should be spending on it.
The new Rasmussen Reports poll showed only 4 percent of likely voters believe the U.S. is winning the war on drugs, while a whopping 82 percent disagree. Only 13 percent of voters are undecided.
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The Associated Industries of Florida (AIF) spoke out on Florida's job growth for the month of July in a statement released Friday, praising Gov. Rick Scott for an increase in jobs for July.
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Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., sent a letter to Amazon Inc. CEO Jeffrey Bezos Friday, urging the company to consider the Florida Glades as a location for an Amazon distribution center.
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According to a poll released Friday, Americans are nearly split on whether marijuana should be legalized or not.
The poll, conducted by Ramussen Reports, finds that 44 percent of likely U.S. voters believe marijuana should be legalized while 42 percent believe it should not.
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According to an internal audit and other top-secret documents, the National Security Agency broke privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broader authority in 2008.
By Nancy Smith
Gov. Rick Scott's office announced Thursday afternoon that on Tuesday the governor and Sen. Joe Negron, R-Stuart, will tour the St. Lucie lock and dam on the St. Lucie River in Stuart -- scene of massive discharges of polluted fresh water, sent east from Lake Okeechobee. The discharges,called "lethal" by local residents, are widely blamed for what ails the now-lifeless St. Lucie Estuary.
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