With the state House expected to get around to bills focused on regulating or closing Internet cafes in the coming week, Palm Beach County commissioners are looking to shorten the moratorium that prevents new arcades opening.
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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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Attorney General Pam Bondi has appointed Charlotte Danciu and Yvonne Fry, while reappointing Nancy Peek McGowen and Anne Voss, to the Florida Commission on the Status of Women.
The 22-member Commission, created in 1991, makes recommendations to the governor, Cabinet and Legislature on issues that impact women.
According to a release from the attorney generals office:
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An unheeded call for a Bible burning at a congressional candidate's restaurant sparked a "whodunnit" exercise over the weekend.
A posting on Craig's List announced there would be a Bible-burning Saturday at a restaurant owned by Republican Karen Harrington, who is seeking to oust Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fort Lauderdale.
The free ad stated: "The Muslim Brotherhood of South Florida is pleased to announce our first BIBLE BURNING. All believers in the TRUE GOD ALLAH are encouraged to attend and participate."
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A posting on Craig's List called for a "Bible-burning" Saturday at a restaurant owned by a South Florida congressional candidate. But the event fizzled.
Targeting Republican Karen Harrington's restaurant in Pembroke Pines, the announcement stated: "The Muslim Brotherhood of South Florida is pleased to announce our first BIBLE BURNING. All believers in the TRUE GOD ALLAH are encouraged to attend and participate."
The posting invited attendees to "Bring your own Bible TO BURN," and said "all believers in Allah are welcome."
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Have a look at Cora Currier's doozie of a story posted Friday on ProPublica, under the headline, "Banks Colluding with Insurers to Rip Off Homeowners, Lawsuit Alleges." Currier explains, "More than 20,000 Florida homeowners can now sue Wells Fargo and an insurance company, QBE, for allegedly overcharging for insurance. More than $50 million in insurance premiums are at issue, according to American Banker."
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Mark Meckler, a founder of the national Tea Party Patriots, resigned this week -- and some Florida tea partiers are saying good riddance.
Meckler's resignation as national coordinator was accepted by the TPP board following "months of discussions and good-faith differences on how best TPP can serve the Tea Party movement," the organization said in a statement Friday.
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A decision continues to be anticipated soon from Leon County Circuit Judge Jackie Fulford on Floridas decision to require state employees to contribute 3 percent of their pay toward the pension program.
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The third time was the charm for NASA and the U.S. Navy.
After weather scrubbed two launches last week, an Atlas 5 rocket carrying the Navy's newest generation of mobile communications spacecraft -- the Mobile User Objective System-1 (MUOS-1) -- got off the ground just after 5:15 p.m. Friday.
The launch marked the 200th flight of the Centaur upper stage.
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There's crassness.
There's hypocrisy.
This is crass hypocrisy.
A fundraising email to Obama supporters Friday pegs its appeal to a speech Mitt Romney is giving in Troy, Mich., sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, the conservative group largely funded by David and Charles Koch, the Houston billionaires liberals probably scare their children with.
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Advocates for tougher legislation against human trafficking, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Rep. William Snyder, R-Stuart, praised the House support for HB 7049 on Friday.
This legislation will give us the tools we need to stop the exploitative and degrading business of human trafficking, Bondi stated in a release.
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