Gov. Rick Scott released the following statement on Barry Gilway being offered the position of president at Citizens Property Insurance and the service of Tom Grady as the interim president.
I would like to thank Tom Grady for his service as interim president of Citizens Property Insurance, and congratulate Barry Gilway on his appointment as the new president.
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In a ballot initiative that caught the attention of Florida tea party conservatives and low-tax advocates the country over, North Dakota voters on Tuesday said "no" to making their state the first in the nation to end property taxes.
In fact, more than 76 percent of the electorate turned down Measure 2, according to returns from the North Dakota secretary of state.
President Ronald Reagan said it best:Its not that liberals are ignorant, its just that what they know is wrong. And boy, have they got it wrong over this "voter purge" issue.
Federal environmental officials on Wednesday told Florida that a revised state plan to improve water quality in the Everglades meets with Washington's approval, and said it may meet a federal judge's order to clean up the ecosystem.
In notifying the state Department of Environmental Protection that changes made to an earlier plan are satisfactory, the EPA will allow the state and the South Florida Water Management District to move forward with what officials say is a historic plan for the construction of stormwater treatment areas and huge new areas of water storage.
Who does Barack Obama listen to?
Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, isnt running to be the next president of his alma mater, his office stated.
Cannons name has been floated after State University System Chancellor Frank Brogan on Monday said the University of Florida trustees shouldnt limit the search to replace its president strictly to the academic world.
But Cannons spokeswoman Katie Betta quickly dismissed the UF rumors.
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MedVance Institute, alleged to have made misleading marketing claims, has agreed to offer retraining to students and direct $600,000 in scholarships to Florida, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday.
Students should be able to trust that the marketing information they received from any educational institution is complete and accurate, Bondi stated in a release. I am pleased that MedVance has cooperated fully with my office and demonstrated a commitment to act responsibly.
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Barry Gilway has been called an insurance industry dynamo," valuating strategic acquisitions and opportunities for Zurich North America, W.R. Berkley Corp. and Crum & Forster.
More important for those overseeing Florida's insurer of last resort, Gilway has experience both running a large firm and reducing the size of a company that had overextended itself.
The great Eddie Cochran sang in his classic hit Summertime Blues (not all of us in Generation X associate the song with Alan Jackson) about the problems a teenager encounters when free from school -- and his lines about summer jobs and calling up congressmen came to mind on Wednesday as former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, now running in the Republican primary to take on Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in November, weighed in on teenagers searching for jobs.
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