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Will attacks against the homeless be considered hate crimes?
Orlando Homicide Report - Orlando SentinelIt looks like the Florida House of Representatives may vote to designate attacks against the homeless as hate crimes. The proposed bill is a response to a vicious fatal attack in St. Lauderdale that made national news. Here's an excerpt from the story:... -
Fla. sticks it to most-vulnerable borrowers
As opposition groups go, the folks fighting Florida Senate Bill 282 offered about as broad a coalition as you can cobble together these days. The Florida Consumer Action Network lobbied against the bill. The Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops called...
Tags: Loans, Crime, Law and Justice, Regional Authority, Politics, Executive Branch
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Democrats rally supporters at annual gathering, raise money for 2014
– Unified by a burning desire to unseat Republican Gov. Rick Scott, Florida Democrats spent Saturday trying to figure out if their best hope lies in the obvious, but unofficial, candidacy of former Gov. Charlie Crist. "We have to take him down....
Tags: Democratic Party, Julian Castro, Weston (Broward, Florida), Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Executive Branch
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Campbell, Thurston weigh races for attorney general, Florida Senate
Sun SentinelThe campaign for governor gets most of the attention, but lots of conversation in the hotel hallways and over drinks when Florida Democrats gather this weekend for their big annual fundraising dinner in Hollywood will concern lower statewide offices....Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Democratic Party, Campbell (Osceola, Florida), Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice
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Wasserman Schultz decries Medicaid coverage gap
A million Floridians will be left without health care coverage because of Florida’s decision to put its Medicaid patients on managed-care plans run by private insurance companies, South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz warned on...Tags: Medicaid, Weston (Broward, Florida), Politics, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance
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Dayve Gabbard: New bill helps breast cancer treatment
For those of us who spend our days entrenched in the war on breast cancer, the Florida Legislature's recent passage of an oral chemotherapy parity law — and Gov. Scott signing the bill into law — marked a major victory. Now, health insurance...Tags: Health Treatments, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, Health and Medical Professionals, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Science and Technology
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Heritage to make 'financial enhancements' to maintain A rating
Heritage Property and Casualty Insurance Co., a partner with Citizens Property Insurance Corp. in a controversial new takeout deal, was asked by an industry ratings firm Friday to make some "financial enhancements" in order to maintain its A-Exceptional...Tags: Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Insurance, Regional Authority, Politics, Executive Branch
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Can Florida Democrats make real gains in 2014?
It's going to be tough. There's no way the party can win enough seats in the Florida Legislature to shift the balance of power in either of the two chambers. Redistricting settled that issue sometime back. Grabbing one of the Florida Cabinet...Tags: Barack Obama, Jeffrey Atwater, Politics, Executive Branch, Elections
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Gov signs bill that union says provides a "partial fix" to controversial teacher evaluations
Gov. Rick Scott today signed a bill (SB 1664) that aims to stop teachers from being evaluated on students or subjects they didn't teach. The Florida Education Association called the measure a "partial fix" to the sweeping teacher merit pay law the...Tags: Education, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Science and Technology, Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test
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Florida gets OK to move Medicaid patients into managed care
Florida has received federal approval to move approximately 2.9 million Medicaid recipients into managed-care programs as soon as next Jan. 1, Gov. Rick Scott's office announced today. It's a major victory for Scott and the Florida Legislature --...
Tags: Broward County, Insurance, Medicaid, Health Insurance, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Good move to elevate our region's voice
This is a move that makes so much sense, you are left with only one question: What took so long? The mayors of Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties recognize there is political clout in numbers, so they have decided to join forces on issues...Tags: Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Everglades, Orlando, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Tallahassee (Leon, Florida)
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