Senators on the PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee took issue with Gov. Rick Scotts proposed education budget Thursday morning, hours before a separate committee passed a bill that would tie teacher pay to performance.
WASHINGTON -- Today, everyone and his cousin supports the "freedom agenda." Of course, yesterday it was just George W. Bush, Tony Blair and a band of neocons with unusual hypnotic powers who dared challenge the received wisdom of Arab exceptionalism -- the notion that Arabs, as opposed to East Asians, Latin Americans, Europeans and Africans, were uniquely allergic to democracy. Indeed, the left spent the better part of the Bush years excoriating the freedom agenda as either fantasy or yet another sordid example of U.S. imperialism.
Gov. Rick Scott visited the offices of the state Department of Management Services Thursday in Tallahassee, praising Jack Miles, whom he recently tapped to head the agency, and pledging to stop the problems within the agency that led to the "Taj Mahal" debacle of the extravagant 1st District Court of Appeal courthouse.
"We have a new secretary, Jack Miles, (he) is going to do a great job. He's got a great background, you know, in procurement, in contracting, so I think he'll do a good job making sure we have the right things in place," Scott said.
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Gov. Rick Scott cheered on the arrival of Bing Energy in Tallahassee Thursday, and was quick to mention that his policies were a major factor in bringing the company to Florida.
Traditional Catholic institution Ave Maria University has joined the Independent Colleges and University of Florida (ICUF), an association of 29 private, nonprofit schools with more than 130,000 students across the Sunshine State.
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Rep. Alan Williams, D-Tallahassee, is hoping the Legislature will follow the example of some members of Congress when Gov. Rick Scott holds the State of the State address in March by having members of both parties sitting together.
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Senate President Mike Haridopolos stated Thursday he is against moving back Florida's date for the presidential primary in 2012.
Democratic legislators have filed a bill to move the date back from the end of January, and newly-elected Republican National Committee Chair Reince Preibus urged his party to move it back during a recent trip to Tampa, the site of the 2012 Republican national convention.
"I think it's a bad idea," Haridopolos said of moving the date back.
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Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, who is a possible candidate to take on Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012, focused on border security on Thursday in light of increased violence, including the recent murders of two American teenagers.
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As Kevin Derby reported for Sunshine State News, Al Cardenas, a former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, was named Wednesday to head up the American Conservative Union (ACU), succeeding conservative icon David Keene who led the group for more than 25 years.
