After 10 Glorious Years, Sunshine State News and I Are Passing the Baton
You probably can't imagine how much fun I've had at Sunshine State News over the last 10 years. I don't think anybody could.
November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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Every 10 years, it's time for reapportionment and redistricting. The framers of the Constitution created the first regularly scheduled national census and required, for the first time that I am aware, that representation in a legislature be apportioned according to population.
NEW YORK - As I was perusing headlines that seem seldom to change -- mosque, immigration, sacred ground, 9/11, more mosque -- an unlikely trio intruded upon my malaise: Paul Newman, Rodney King and John Lennon.
JERUSALEM -- Immersion in this region's politics can convince those immersed that history is cyclical rather than linear -- that it is not one thing after another but the same thing over and over. This passes for good news because things that do change, such as weapons, often make matters worse.
Last week, Dr. Laura Schlessinger announced on CNN that she was hanging up her headphones at the end of the year. If she could not exercise her freedom of speech, she said, she was not interested in the job.
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Friday night's NCAA March Madness showdown between two Florida teams -- the University of Florida and Florida Gulf Coast University -- will have at least one conflicted fan in the crowd: Florida's top chief, Gov. Rick Scott.
The governor is in Dallas with his family for the game between the No. 3-seed Gators and the No. 15-seed Eagles. The winner heads to the Elite 8. FGCU is the first 15-seed to ever make it to this round: the Sweet 16.
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will be headlining the Hispanic Leadership Network's 2013 Miami Conference, Family Reuni.
The bilingual, two-day conference is set to take place at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Fla., on April 18-19.
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The Florida Senate released its annual budget proposal for fiscal year 2013-2014 on Friday, putting $2.9 billion in reserves.
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The fourth annual School Choice Day is coming to the Florida Capitol.
The Florida Alliance for Choices in Education and the Florida Coalition for Public School Options Friday announced the all day event for teachers, parents and students to join together in Tallahassee in support of parental school choice for their children.
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In more good economic news for the state of Florida this week, the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity revealed Friday that the state's unemployment in February hit its lowest mark since October 2008, falling 0.2 percent from January to 7.7 percent.
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With President Barack Obama in town Friday to talk jobs and infrastructure investment at the Port of Miami, Florida Gov. Rick Scott took the president's trip to South Florida as an opportunity to ask for a reimbursement for the state's port investment.
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Dave Mica, executive director of the Florida Petroleum Council, gets a nod from Sunshine State News for Best Picture of the Day after tweeting, "Cinderella is ..."
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New emissions standards announced by the Obama administration Friday will add a fee of up to 9 cents per gallon of gasoline.
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The following was written and submitted by freelance reporter/videographer Dave Heller:
Florida is moving to prevent some mentally ill people from buying guns.
A House committee passed a bill Thursday that would ban gun purchases by anyone who has been committed to a mental institution.
Currently, theres a loophole in state law that allows mentally ill people to voluntarily commit themselves to a mental health treatment facility and then be able to buy a gun when they check out.
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President Barack Obama, the ever-present campaigner, took his push for immigration reform to the Hispanic audiences of Telemundo and Univison Thursday night.He told the target audience that immigration reform would be coming "soon," in a clear move to bolster his legacy.
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