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TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott last Friday turned to his tea party advocacy allies to try and drum up pressure on Florida lawmakers to pass the corporate tax breaks he promised on the campaign trail.
But a few anti-tax organizations plan to make a big ask of their...
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TALLAHASSEE — The Florida House debated into the evening Friday on a measure to repeal a bill they just passed last year establishing rules for local governments that have installed red-light cameras at intersections.
The sponsor of HB 4087, Rep. Richard Corcoran, R-New Port Richey, cited a list of studies...
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TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott didn’t take up a challenge from an Orlando talk show host to wage a 30-day job-creating race. but he did make an appearance on WTKS-FM-Real Radio 104.1 ”The Buckethead Show” yesterday to laugh up...
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TALLAHASSEE — The two state senators suing Gov. Rick Scott over his refusal to allow a $2.7 billion high-speed rail project to roll forward said Tuesday they viewed the governor’s action as a constitutional affront to the Legislature’s power to...
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If last week was about Gov. Rick Scott fulfilling his campaign slogan and getting to work, this week it was the Legislature’s turn.
Lawmakers came back to Tallahassee for the first really substantive committee meeting in preparation for the...
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If there’s power in numbers Hispanics in Central Florida have amassed quite a bit in the last decade. their numbers have grown by 70 percent and now they top 900,000 in the I-4 corridor.the question now is how to turn that...
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TALLAHASSEE — Newly-inaugurated Gov. Rick Scott has not yet signaled whether or not he will get on board with a high speed rail connecting Tampa and Orlando, but the Senate president says he won’t go along for the ride.
Supporters have...
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But we'll have to wait and see if the tip from state Senate President Ken Pruitt qualifies.
"Take full advantage of the 'honeymoon' period – there will only be one," Pruitt wrote.
The shaky part is assuming Scott will get even one honeymoon, especially...
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Why drive four hours to Orlando or Tampa to experience haunted houses when there?s one practically in your own backyard? Located on Gaines Street near campus, The Terror of Tallahassee haunted house has been open since 2003 and is now...
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TALLAHASSEE — a day after the Bobby Bowden forced-into-retirement story resurfaced, eight months after the details had been public, former Florida...
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