Gov. Rick Scott reappointed Wendy S. Link and appointed John F. Dowd III to the District Board of Trustees, Palm Beach State College.
According to the governors office:
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Gov. Rick Scott appointed Mark H. Gotz to the St. Lucie Fire District.
According to a release from the governors office:
Gotz, 62, of Port St. Lucie, is the owner of MH Realty Associates. He succeeds Frances A. Hutchinson and is appointed for a term beginning Dec. 6, 2011, and ending Jan. 16, 2013.
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Newt Gingrich figures to get a careful look from women at tonight's presidential debate from Iowa.
The ABC debate, which starts at 9 p.m., is the first since the former House speaker took first-place in the GOP polls. And with less than a month until the Iowa caucuses, Gingrich will be under fire from competitors desperate to stay in the field. With stakes this high, personal attacks can't be ruled out.
By Kevin Derby
Next week, Republicans in the Senate will be in for an interesting leadership fight as two senators elected for the first time in 2010 -- Roy Blunt of Missouri and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin -- duke it out to see who becomes vice chairman of the Senate Republican Conference. The contest certainly has ideological ramifications -- Johnson is a favorite of the tea party movement while Blunt, a veteran of the U.S. House, is considered more a favorite of the establishment.
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Nancy Argenziano filed suit in circuit court Friday to overturn a state election law that prevents her from running for Congress as a Democrat.
The former Public Service Commission chairwoman and lifelong Republican switched to the Independent Party earlier this year. By doing so, she locked herself into minor-party status under a new law that requires candidates to belong to the party with which they are running 18 months in advance of Election Day.
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GOP presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman said Friday that the National Labor Relations Board decision to drop its lawsuit against Boeing "was a victory in a battle that should have never been fought."
The NLRB filed a complaint against Boeing in March accusing the aerospace company of establishing a nonunion production line in South Carolina in retaliation against union workers in Washington state for past strikes, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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The governor's office has declared Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll's trade mission to South Africa a "booming success."
The Carroll-led nine-day trade mission with Enterprise Florida from Nov. 4-13 is expected to create nearly $40 million in sales for Florida, the governor's office reported.
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The Florida Transportation Builders Association has sided with the business interest groups backing the destination casino bill that would establish a statewide gaming commission and allow a trio of mega, $2 billion casinos.
Robert Burleson, Association president, in a letter to Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff, the sponsor of the Senate bill on destination gaming, stated that the association's board of directors views the casinos --along the potential construction and full-time jobs --as an enhancement to the South Florida area.
By Kevin Derby
With reports continuing this week that U.S. Air Force personnel discarded the partial remains of at least 274 American service members in a landfill, Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan demanded a full investigation.
Reports have found that personnel at the Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware -- the initial stop on American soil for the remains of service members killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq -- have dumped the cremated remains in a Virginia landfill.
By Kevin Derby
On Friday, Republican presidential hopeful former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania gained a big boost for his campaign when he received the endorsement of Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz. Santorum has campaigned hard in the Hawkeye State, which holds its caucus on Jan. 3, and has appeared in all 99 counties in the state. Schultz becomes the first statewide elected official to back any of the GOP hopefuls.
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