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Bradenton Herald
October 27, 2017
Allowing Florida's elected officials access to juvenile facilities will help expose the malicious, cruel and corrupt practices that these children face ...
Florida Times-Union
October 27, 2017
The Florida Senate sent a memorandum to senators Thursday saying, ... sure I was ready to work this hard at an elected office,” Morgan said.
WLRN
October 27, 2017
A Florida lawmaker is filing a bill to find a way around the Electoral College. ... Supporters of the compact want the Presidential election to be ...
Tallahassee.com
October 27, 2017
Politico Florida on Friday morning reported the affair between ... “But it is clear to me that task is impossible to finish while in elected office.
Tampabay.com (blog)
October 27, 2017
The issue often becomes passionate and political, with local Florida electorates frequently choosing to stick with their elected leaders when ...
Florida Today
October 26, 2017
It's been a minute since the 2016 elections and here we go again. On Nov. 7 five Brevard County municipalities and the Barefoot Bay ...
TBO.com (blog)
October 25, 2017
Sen. Dennis Baxley tells colleagues he wants elected board members to be able to operate in a "more realistic" way. The Florida Channel.
Tampabay.com (blog)
October 14, 2017
The Fort Pierce, Florida, barber benefits from the deductible and co-pay discounts, as do more than 1 million other Floridians, the highest ...
Orlando Sentinel
October 6, 2017
“It's going to affect the election cycle, and deservedly so,” said Vivian Rodriguez, vice chair of the Florida Democratic Party's Diversity and ...
MyPalmBeachPost
September 29, 2017
The 2017 hurricane season is emerging as a factor in Florida's 2018 elections – and it could have political impact for years beyond that in ...
Florida Times-Union
March 15, 2017
Scott, who was first elected to office in 2010, launched his political career amid the initial wave of opposition to the Obama overhaul.
The News-Press
March 15, 2017
With about 3,700 bills proposed in the Florida House and Senate, a common question when the 2017 legislative session began days ago was "What are lawmakers going to do?
WFTV Orlando
March 14, 2017
ORLANDO, Fla. - If Republicans want to pass their own healthcare plan out of the US House they can only afford to lose 21 votes; they have already lost two in Florida. The response to the Republican healthcare plan from Central Florida's newly elected ...
Sun Sentinel
March 14, 2017
Three Miramar commissioners won re-election Tuesday, even though the mayor endorsed opponents in two of the races. Maxwell Chambers won a second term as Seat 1 commissioner.
Palm Beach Post
March 14, 2017
The resident of Jupiter Country Club was elected to the town council last year, beating Karen Golonka and Carol Watson. Before serving on the town council, Posner served three years on the town's planning and zoning commission.
WPEC
March 14, 2017
PALM BEACH COUNTY (CBS12) - Some South Florida cities, towns and municipalities have elections on Tuesday, March 14.
News Chief
March 14, 2017
TALLAHASSEE - A House panel approved a proposed constitutional amendment Monday that could shift power in Florida's executive branch.
The Northwest Florida Daily News
March 14, 2017
FORT WALTON BEACH - Dick Rynearson's wife, Janey, squealed with delight inside the City Council chamber at City Hall on Tuesday night after unofficial election results showed he would be Fort Walton Beach's new mayor. Shortly afterward, RynearsonÃÂ ...
Sun Sentinel
March 14, 2017
Rosenzweig, 77, was elected four years ago, pledging to lie down in front of bulldozers to stop such a road, but he's come to embrace the idea that some sort of construction needs to happen.
Gainesville Sun
March 14, 2017
He is an Eastside High School, Santa Fe College and University of Florida graduate. Some of the campaign promises Ward said he will address soon after taking office include pushing city elections to the fall and bridging the gender pay gap. "I want to ...
Tallahassee.com
March 14, 2017
A House panel approved a proposed constitutional amendment Monday that could shift power in Florida's executive branch.
Gainesville Sun
March 13, 2017
Initially, I was in favor of term limits, because non-incumbents had little or no chance to win an election. However, as the state of Florida has demonstrated when it created term limits for our state legislators, what we actually created was a class ...
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
March 13, 2017
TALLAHASSEE - Shortly after President Donald Trump was elected, New College of Florida students began urging school officials not to cooperate with immigration authorities and declare the college a "sanctuary campus.
Palm Beach Post
March 13, 2017
Magic Johnson, an investor and spokesman for Simply Healthcare Plans Inc., which serves more than 200,000 Medicare and Medicaid members in Florida, lobbied Florida lawmakers Monday, March 13, 2017. (2016 file photo by Lisa Blumenfeld/GettyÃÂ ...
Florida Politics (blog)
March 13, 2017
House Democrats elected Kionne McGhee, a former prosecutor whose challenges as child included poverty, the murder of two family members, and a diagnosis of mental retardation, as their leader-designate Monday.
SaintPetersBlog (blog)
March 9, 2017
It would tax the imagination to come up with anything that Florida needs less than to elect a secretary of state once again.
The Independent Florida Alligator
March 8, 2017
Even though the case is still under review, as the Student Body President-Elect of the University of Florida, I am called to a higher standard.
Miami Herald
March 7, 2017
Three of Florida's four highest-ranking elected officials - and potentially the lieutenant governor and the state's 160 lawmakers, too - could be able to carry guns almost anywhere in the state under a special carve-out in Florida law being ...
Florida Politics (blog)
March 7, 2017
Historically, the Secretary of State in Florida was elected by the public, but that changed in 1998, when constitutional changes removed that position from the elected Cabinet of the executive branch. Now, 19 years later, Fernandina Beach Republican Sen.
Florida Politics (blog)
March 3, 2017
Lawmakers will consider a measure that would make Florida Secretary of State an elected position when the 2017 Legislative Session kicks off Tuesday.
WJXT Jacksonville
March 2, 2017
The high court ordered the suspension of Circuit Judge Andrew Decker, a public reprimand and payment of costs following an investigation into alleged wrongdoing before he was elected to the bench in 2012. Decker is a judge in the 3rd Judicial Circuit,ÃÂ ...
Florida Sentinel Bulletin
March 2, 2017
A national African American gun club has doubled its membership numbers since Election Day, and more Blacks are taking an interest in their constitutional right to bear arms.
Florida Politics (blog)
March 2, 2017
Under Florida law, candidates cannot accept potential contributions until they've opened a campaign account." Orlando Sentinel, Andrew Gillum says he'll run for governor in 2018 - "But Gillum, who was elected mayor in 2014, comes from the state's ...
Local 10
March 2, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Donald Trump attended a luncheon Wednesday with Republican leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.
Clay Today Online
March 1, 2017
On November 6, 1900, the voters of Florida elected William Sherman Jennings the eighteenth governor of the state. After serving one term Gov.
Tampabay.com
March 1, 2017
Even though 2017 is not an election year, many Florida Insiders think Corcoran's expected run for the Republican gubernatorial nomination (against Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam) and Scott's ambitions to run for U.S.
Jamaicans.com
March 1, 2017
The Jamaican Women of Florida, Inc. (JWOF) elected a new Board of Directors on February 25, 2015 at their fourth annual general meeting.
U.S. News & World Report
March 1, 2017
Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum has announced he will seek the Democratic nomination for Florida governor, becoming the first of an expected onslaught of candidates hoping to replace Republican Gov.
Tallahassee.com
February 28, 2017
Florida's elected officials have played an extraordinary role of winning jobs and capital investment from aerospace throughout the state of Florida, and commercial companies have started investing in manufacturing facilities at Kennedy Space Center'sÃÂ ...
The Fayette Tribune
February 27, 2017
Florida law doesn't specify any such CPA requirement, and even if it did this dirty trick would exemplify the real purpose of so-called "ballot access laws": To safeguard the Republican and Democratic Parties' near-complete control of American elections.
NBCNews.com
February 27, 2017
A Rhode Island man in a tractor-trailer led authorities on a chase through two north Florida counties after he called 911 to say he was "headed to Donald TrumpÃÂ ...
WFSU
February 27, 2017
Republican members of Florida's Congressional Delegations have found themselves confronting angry constituents at recent town hall meetings.
Yahoo Finance
February 27, 2017
PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL / ACCESSWIRE / February 27, 2017 / Olympus Insurance Company, a leading Florida homeowners' insurer, announced that Mariela Perez-Pennock, FCLS, was elected Chair and voting member of the Public Relations andÃÂ ...
Orlando Political Observer
February 26, 2017
The Florida Democratic Hispanic Caucus is applauding the win of former Department of Labor Secretary, Tom Perez, in the race for Democratic National Committee Chair held on Saturday.
Miami Herald
February 24, 2017
However, Gillum faces some big obstacles if he does embark on a statewide campaign. He lacks name recognition outside the state capital, and it's rare that a little-known North Florida politician wins a statewide race. The last Tallahassee resident ...
WFSU
February 24, 2017
For the remainder of 2017, Governor Scott will serve as the RGA's Vice Chair. He'll replace South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who resigned due to her new role as the U.S.
South Florida Caribbean News
February 23, 2017
FT. LAUDERDALE - The Broward Black Elected Officials (BBEO) along with Broward County Commissioner Dale V.C. Holness, District 9, will host the inaugural State of Black Broward event.
Florida Politics (blog)
February 23, 2017
Ayala, elected on a judicial reform platform last fall as the top prosecutor for the Orange and Osceola counties' 9th Circuit, told the Tiger Bay Club of Central Florida that she intends to have her office review policies dictating when to pursue death ...
fox6now.com
February 23, 2017
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 03: Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) gets a 'fist bump' from fellow member of the House of Representatives Matt Gaetz (R-FL) after Ryan was re-elected January 3, 2017 in Washington, DC. Seven new members of theÃÂ ...
FOX 13 News, Tampa Bay
February 23, 2017
PORT RICHEY (FOX 13) - Like most college seniors, 21-year-old Amber Mariano balances work and studying while dreaming of her next steps in life, but instead of law school or a summer abroad, Mariano already knows she'll be busy representing herÃÂ ...
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