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Mayo: Hypocritical Fla. House gets cheap health insurance
Sun SentinelFlorida House, hypocrisy is thy name. At least when it comes to the health care debate. Today's outrage story of the day comes courtesy of Tia Mitchell of the Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee bureau, who reports that Florida House members...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Medicaid, Government Health Care, Politics, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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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: Natural Gas, Government, Politics, Civil and Public Service, Biofuels
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Bob Graham: Legislators gave away too much on environment
The Florida Conservation Coalition was founded after the devastating legislative session of 2011 which rolled back 40 years of bi-partisan environmental stewardship. Since the 1970's Florida's governors and legislators, Democrats and Republicans, have...Tags: Land Resources, Government, Bob Graham, Environmental Issues, Politics
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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: Orlando, John Hitt, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Jeffrey Atwater
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Rating local lawmakers: Gardiner, Simmons stand out
Florida voters send 160 of their fellow citizens to the Capitol in Tallahassee for 60 days each year. But power and wisdom aren't apportioned equally among Florida lawmakers. Usually only a handful of them shape events, for good or ill, during legislative...
Tags: Politics, High School Sports, Sales, Altamonte Springs, Local Government
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FAMU names Sylvester Young as new marching band director
Sylvester Young, a former music professor at Ohio University, has been selected as FAMU's new marching band director. Officials at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee announced early last month that they were interviewing two people for the job of...
Tags: Orlando, University of Missouri , Florida Classic, Hazing, Entertainment
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Bill Nelson says he's not running for governor, but not everyone believes him
Sun SentinelU.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said Friday in Fort Lauderdale he has “no plans” to run for governor next year, but declined to give a Shermanesque statement flatly declaring it’s something he wouldn’t do. Speaking to about 175...Tags: Executive Branch, Regional Authority, Real Estate, Medicaid, Government
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Obituary: Russell T. Cloyd
Russell T. Cloyd 1944-2013 Russell T. Cloyd, 69, of Danville, died Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Born in Tallahassee, Fla. on April 6, 1944, he was the son of the late Russell T. and Kathleen Russell Cloyd. He retired from Matsushita Appliance Corp. after...
Tags: Diabetes, Religion and Belief, Christianity
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Tallahassee hotel shortage forces flag football finals to move to Kissimmee
This weekend's flag football finals are coming to Central Florida. Graduations at Florida State University caused a shortage in hotel vacancies, forcing the FHSAA to move the games from Tallahassee's Gene Cox Stadium to Kissimmee's Osceola High School....Tags: High School Sports, Kissimmee, Florida High School Athletic Association
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One million reasons for lawmakers to expand care
With this year's session of the Florida Legislature due to end Friday, lawmakers have passed some significant legislation. The list includes bills to reform government ethics rules, create a new path to high school graduation and keep Everglades...Tags: Finance, Politics, Justice System, Florida Legislature, Health Care Reform (2009)
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What we think: House breaks vow to be bipartisan, thoughtful
After he was elected Florida House speaker by his colleagues in November, Republican Will Weatherford delivered an eloquent speech promising bipartisanship and a commitment to problem solving. He urged members to "have a clear understanding of why we're...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Politics, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Republican Party, Health Insurance
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Water district keeps its distance as other fight over wetlands tied to river it is guarding
Low-lying Wedgefield's fight to be exempted from Orange County's wetlands rules is taking place in the Florida Legislature this spring with scant information about the potential environmental consequences of the legislation. That's because the state...
Tags: Melbourne, Florida Legislature, Conservation, Rick Scott, Environmental Issues
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