The News Service of Florida has video of the press gaggle around Gov. Rick Scott earlier on Wednesday. Scott kicked over a number of topics including a new poll from Quinnipiac University, the budget and pension reforms for state employees.
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Newly inaugurated Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Rich Nugent weighed in on Wednesday on the continuing battle over the federal health care law backed by President Barack Obama.
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Officer Reeshemah Taylor, an eight-year veteran of the Osceola County Corrections Department, received the 2010 Florida Law Enforcement Officer of the Year Award on Wednesday in Tallahassee.
Gov. Rick Scott, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater and Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam joined Attorney General Pam Bondi in lauding Taylor and the nine other officers nominated for the award.
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While tea party favorite Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina continues to ponder making a run at the Republican presidential nomination, his competitors are keeping tabs on what he does. His home state will be a crucial primary battle.
Some may not like Rick Scott, but they can't deny he's doing a good job so far.
A new Quinnipiac poll released today shows a lot of voters, 43 percent, undecided on the governor's job performance during his first 3 1/2 weeks in office. Many, about 45 percent, say they also need more time to decide if they would give him a favorable rating overall.
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A 47-year-old University of Massachusetts student who said he believed Rep. William Snyder, R-Stuart, was trying to abolish the 14th Amendment was arrested late Monday in Northampton, Mass., for threatening the life of Snyder and his family. The e-mailed threat came an hour after the Jan. 8 mass shooting in Arizona that left six people dead and 13 wounded, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
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Gov. Rick Scott unveiled his plan to reform the states employee pension system in Naples Tuesday, promising $2.8 billion in savings over the next two years.
Among the biggest losers of the Egyptian uprising are, first, the Mubaraks, who are finished, and, next, the United States and Israel.
Hosni Mubarak will be out by year's end, if not the end of this month, or week. He will not run again and will not be succeeded by son Gamal, whom he had groomed and who has fled to London.
Theyve already got Rick Scott coming but Tea Party activists are now trying to bring the faux ship Dartmouth out of storage to serve as backdrop for the Republican governors budget rollout next week.
With an eye on taking him on in 2012, Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Connie Mack threw down the gauntlet at Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson on Tuesday, demanding that the senator support repealing the federal health care law backed by President Barack Obama.
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