Floridas Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater will introduce a statewide program on Thursday designed to help local financial institutions and community partners assist residents to access mainstream financial services and financial education.
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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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Calling Vice President Biden's appearance at Florida State University on Monday a taxpayer-funded campaign stop, Republican National Committee spokesman Matt Connelly released the following statement in response to Bidens promoting President Barack Obama's college affordability plan.
By Kevin Derby
Former Gov. Pete Wilson of California announced on Monday he is backing Mitt Romney for president. Wilson ran a brief and very unsuccessful bid for the Republican primary nomination himself during the 1996 election cycle but he did not even make it to Iowa. Romney named Wilson his honorary chairman in California.
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Florida's crackdown on pill mills has been working, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration reported.
A study released by the DEA concluded that since legislators approved a law at the end of the 2011 session that tightened reporting requirements for the prescription-drug monitoring database and increased penalties for doctors who overprescribe narcotics, the purchase of oxycodone has rapidly declined in Florida.
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Members of the Florida Cabinet are reportedly going to revive an old Florida State Fair tradition by taking a trip down the Giant Slide located on the midway to mark the opening of the 2012 fair in Tampa on Thursday.
Cabinet members who will take the plunge are not identified.
By Kevin Derby
Former state House Majority Leader Adam Hasner -- who dropped out of the Republican U.S. Senate primary last week to run for Congress -- has garnered the attention of national party leaders, including U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
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As Gov. Rick Scott might say:
Jobs, jobs, jobs.
(Do you think Ann hears that as much as the rest of us do? Probably even more. He's got to practice, after all.)
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Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, released the following statement on Saturday regarding approaching the midpoint of the 90-day, 2012 legislative session:
"As we approach the midpoint of the 2012 legislative session, I want to pause and reflect on the accomplishments that we have already made and look ahead to the remaining five weeks of the session.
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The Christian Family Coalition is calling on the Florida House to follow the Senate, which approved SB 98 last week -- in a 31-8 vote -- that would let individual school boards across Florida decide if students could conduct inspirational messages at mandatory school functions.
The CFC issued the following statement:
By Kevin Derby
The Federal Elections Commission has qualified presidential hopeful Buddy Roemer for federal matching funds. Roemer, a former congressman and governor of Louisiana, is running for the Republican presidential nomination but has also opened the door to running for the Americans Elect nomination.
Carlos Sierra, Roemers campaign manager, weighed in on the matter, calling it a proud day for our campaign, because we earned a small recognition of our hard work and transparency. The Roemer campaign refuses to accept campaign contributions of more than $100.
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