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2 hrs ago | Highlands Today

College readiness program starts in secondary schools

A nationwide college readiness program is set to be introduced in all Highlands County middle and high schools next school year, even though an unexpected glitch has cut state funding for the Sebring secondary schools.

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Related Topix: Family, Adolescents and Pre-Teens, Education Etc., Highlands County, FL, Sebring, FL, Avon Park, FL, US Governors

Thu May 23, 2013

Capital Soup

Florida ARF Praises Governor Rick Scott's Florida Families First Budget

On behalf of our member agencies and the thousands of individuals they serve, the Florida Association of Rehabilitation Facilities extends a heartfelt thank you to Governor Rick Scott and the Florida Legislature for funding that allows the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to begin addressing the DD Medicaid Waiver services waitlist.

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Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, US Governors

WJHG-TV Panama City

Election Reform

This past legislative session, lawmakers worked to make massive changes to the election law to avoid major issues at the polls.

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Related Topix: US Governors, 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News

St. Augustine Record

Citizens sheds 60,000 policies in special deal

Florida's largest property insurer is shedding 60,000 policies - many of them in South Florida - under a deal that is being questioned.

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Related Topix: St. Petersburg, FL, US Governors

St. Augustine Record

5 things to know in Florida for May 23, 2013

Authorities in South Florida say a man is charged with murder because he was overheard discussing the killing when his cellphone pocket-dialed 911.

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Related Topix: Florida, US Governors, Clearwater, FL, Bonita Springs, FL

Capital Soup

Governor Scott Announces Chilean Joint Venture with Palm Bay's Advanced Magnet Lab

Governor Rick Scott today announced a joint venture between Florida-based Advanced Magnet Lab, the Advanced Innovation Center of Chile, and FundaciA3n Avina.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Florida

Highlands Today

Developmentally disabled wait to see if new funds will help them

Chad Harding works on a set of math problems at Visions ADT in Sebring Wednesday morning.

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Related Topix: Highlands County, FL, US Governors

Wed May 22, 2013

Erie Times News

Leonard Pitts: Don't rush death-penalty cases

But that doesn't change the fact that, in 2000, stung that 13 inmates had been exonerated and freed from death row in the previous 23 years, Ryan committed an act of profound moral courage, imposing a moratorium on capital punishment.

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Related Topix: Death Penalty, Florida, MO, US Governors, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Opinion

St. Petersburg Times

EditorialsEditorial: Help for Oklahoma in hour of need

Rick Brown puts on a pair of boots after finding them in his tornado-ravaged home Wednesday in Moore, Okla.

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Related Topix: Moore, OK, Oklahoma City, OK, Hurricane, Natural Disasters, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, US Governors, Opinion

Media Matters for America

WSJ's Stephen Moore Hypes Up FL Gov. Rick Scott's Misleading Math

The Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore cited figures that independent analysts have called misleading to hype Florida Gov.

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Related Topix: US Governors, US Politics, Joe Biden, US News, Liberal Political News

Capital Soup

Governor Rick Scott Appoints Two to the Florida Housing Finance Corporation

Today, Governor Rick Scott announced the appointments of John David Hawthorne Jr.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Highlands County, FL, University of Georgia Albany State, Tampa, FL

Bradenton.com

Gov. Rick Scott signs elections bill to fix long voter lines

Gov. Rick Scott has finished the fix of the flawed election law that relegated Florida to a late-night joke in 2012 by signing an elections clean-up bill passed on the final day of the legislative session.

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Related Topix: US Governors, US Politics, Senator Marco Rubio, US News, US Senate, Republican, Florida, Florida Government, 2012 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

Examiner.com

Fla Governor Rick Scott vetoes sheriff's snitch program

Palm Beach County residents are celebrating Florida Governor Rick Scott this morning as they learn he has vetoed a $1 million program which would have set up a program of neighbor snitching on neighbor.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Palm Beach County, FL, Celebrities, Tom Cruise

The Miami Herald

Fla. ranked 42nd in nation in per-pupil spending

Florida's per-pupil spending is among the lowest in the nation according to data compiled by the U.S. Census.

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Related Topix: Adolescents and Pre-Teens, Family, US Governors

Tue May 21, 2013

The Miami Herald

Sweet deal for state taxpayers or Scott donor giveaway?

Two months after contributing $110,000 to Gov. Rick Scott's reelection campaign, an upstart property insurance company is likely to reap a $52 million windfall, paid from the coffers of Citizens Property Insurance Corp.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Florida, Florida Government

The Orlando Sentinel

Front & Center: Ethanol critic: End state mandate

Florida legislators passed a bill this year to repeal the state law that requires most gasoline sold in the state to include 10 percent ethanol.

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Related Topix: Florida, MO, US Governors, Opinion

The Orlando Sentinel

Judge will review 'textgate' messages privately

Circuit Judge Robert J. Egan decided Tuesday that he will review cell phone bills and text messages at the heart of a public records fight that has engulfed several top Orange County leaders.

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Related Topix: Cellphones, Criminal Defense Law, Law, US Governors, Business News

News 4 Jax

Jacksonville Mayor program cut in budget

As Governor Scott balanced his budget, he had to make cuts, and one of those cuts isn't making Jacksonville's Mayor Alvin Brown very happy.

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Related Topix: US Governors

The Florida Times-Union

Florida Morning: Rick Scott signs budget - thoughts to Oklahoma - RIP: Lincoln Gabriel Diaz-Balart

Gov. Rick Scott spread the pain. As Scott signed a $74.1 billion state budget Monday, he used his line-item veto power to eliminate proposals that ranged from spending $14 million on a building project at Gulf Coast State College in the Panhandle to earmarking $20,000 for the Hialeah Junior Fire Academy in South Florida.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Senator Marco Rubio, US News, US Senate, Republican, US Governors, Miami, FL, Immigration Reform, Opinion

Naples Daily News

Gov. Scott's veto of FGCU research park money surprises local leaders

Shaun Gutstein works in the state-of-the-art research labs at Florida Gulf Coast University, assisting in studies by Professor Jose Barreto, who explores biological toxins and possible technologies for destroying deadly germs and toxins.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Florida Gulf Coast University