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Gov. Rick Scott presents 'Shine Award' to Lake County Teacher of the Year Noris Aguayo
Gov. Rick Scott last week presented "Shine Awards" to Noris Aguayo, who in February was named 2013-14 Lake County Teacher of the Year, and nine other district-level top teachers in recognition of their efforts in the classroom. The awards were presented...
Tags: Executive Branch, Government, Politics
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Orange leaders honor Gardner as friend
Orange County commissioners fondly recalled Clerk of Circuit Court Lydia Gardner on Tuesday as an honest and friendly force in politics. Gardner, 68, died last week from cancer. She was praised for her award-winning work in helping run the court...
Tags: Teresa Jacobs
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Orange commissioner seeks open clerk slot, pondering 2014 county mayor run
Orange County Commissioner Tiffany Moore Russell said she has submitted her name to the governor to replace Clerk of Circuit Court Lydia Gardner, who died last week. The lone Democrat on the board said she's also "entertaining" a county mayoral run next...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Executive Branch, Government, Politics, Val Demings
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Thursday Morning Reads: Economic recovery, prostitution and trauma
TALLAHASSEE -- Good morning and happy Thursday to you. Here's what we're reading this morning. * The Orlando Sentinel reports that Wells Fargo analysts are confident Florida's economic recovery is real, but not very exciting. * Gov. Rick...Tags: Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida)
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Lawmakers retreat from high-profile energy legislation
After a 2012 focused on major long-term energy issues, the Legislature retreated a bit from high profile energy legislation this year. Instead, attention was more narrowly focused on altering existing laws regarding the construction of nuclear power...Tags: Business, Nuclear Power, Sales, Politics, Renewable Energy
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Governor Rick Scott warns sequester puts Florida at risk in hurricane season
The federal sequester could hurt Florida's ability to recover after a hurricane because less money will be available to prepare the National Guard, Gov. Rick Scott said Wednesday. Further, he said National Guardsmen are to be furloughed and won't...
Tags: Regional Authority, Hurricanes, Oceans, Global Change, Tropical Storms
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Photos, Video: Florida Cabinet, on the road again
Orlando SentinelGovernor Rick Scott and his cabinet made one of their semi-regular road trips out of Tallahassee for a cabinet meeting, this time to Orlando's Lake Nona, at the Nemours Children's Hospital, Wednesday. Scott was joined by Attorney General Pam Bondi, CFO...Tags: Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Regional Authority, Orlando, Jeffrey Atwater, Executive Branch
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S. Fla. falls to third in national foreclosure rankings
Sun SentinelSouth Florida has relinquished its ranking as the nation’s top spot for foreclosures. After posting the No. 1 foreclosure rate for two consecutive months, the metro area covering Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties fell to third in April,...Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Ocala, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida)
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Merit pay: Value-added rules delayed, based on legislation, public comments
The effort to hammer out new, statewide rules for how to use value-added test score data in teacher evaluations will take longer than planned. That is not surprising, the Florida Department of Education said, as officials knew that the Legislature could...Tags: Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Academic Progress
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CEO's rank Florida as second-best place to do business; List of Top 10 states
Well now I don't know what to think. Chief Executive Magazine just released its rankings of best places to do business, and Florida placed Number 2, just behind Texas. The state got good marks for low taxes, little regulation, quality of life and...
Tags: Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Corporate Officers, Government, Politics
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City chooses new commissioner to fill David McLean's spot
It was all decided in a little over 10 minutes. Margate commissioners picked Brian Donahue out of 18 applicants to fill the seat vacated by Commissioner David McLean, who was removed from office by Governor Rick Scott after a federal indictment accused...Tags: Executive Branch, Elections, Government, Politics
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Amid huge profits, activists slam Disney fight against paid sick time
The Walt Disney Co. announced impressive quarterly profit results Tuesday, but it was bitter news for the activists at odds with the company over its opposition to a mandatory paid sick time referendum in Orange County. The company announced a big 32...
Tags: Red Lobster, Politics, The Walt Disney Co., Referenda
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