In the past few years, a slow trickle of black Democrats have embraced tax-credit vouchers, which are funded by corporations in exchange for tax credits. But that year a regular stream of Democrats, including a handful of white Democrats like state Rep. Bill Heller, D-St. Petersburg, crossed by, mov…

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As we trade the 2008 legislative session for the pending start of the 2008 hurricane season, let’s take stock: • The average cost of homeowner’s insurance in Florida is now more than $2,000 a year, about twice what it was three years ago.

• State-backed Citizens Property Insurance, the insurer…

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Because of space reasons, the St. Petersburg Times, in that Sunday piece, could only excerpt a handful of the stories that students in adult literacy classes wrote to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the St. Petersburg Literacy Council. Many had never written more than a few sentences before. And …

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In a sign that the deadlock by giving Florida a voice in the Democratic nomination finally may be breaking, both Democratic presidential campaigns are starting to broach compromise plans publicly. Democratic National Committee member Allan Katz of Tallahassee said the Barack Obama campaign authori…

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A team of firefighters from Pinellas County will leave for Brevard County that wee hours to assist local crews working to control brush fires that have burned hundreds of acres and threatened homes.

Responding to the demand from Brevard County are fire departments from St. Petersburg, Pinellas Park…

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Near Kris Wernowsky’s lede in today’s Pensacola News Journal, May 12, 2008:One-year-old Ali Jean Paterson died in November 2006 from severe burns she suffered when her father left her unattended in the bath, authorities said. The father, Christopher Paterson, 28, of Molino, was arrested in May 2007…

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TAMPA — It had taken nearly three weeks to track down Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson to hand him a subpoena for his testimony in a federal voting rights case brought by the NAACP. When Johnson finally sat for his deposition, he said he didn’t know the answers to dozens of questions about proce…

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Jon Ausman was in the DC area that weekend where he a) won a big cycling event and b)met with a some key Democrats involved in the 5/31 DNC rules and bylaws committee assembly on his appeals. From his latest e-mail, here’s what he expects to happen:

1–Florida is going to get a penalty and we are n…

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Congressional Quarterly has come up with a cool bracket-style contest letting folks decide matchups amoung possible VP picks for John McCain. Gov. Charlie Crist beat J.C. Watts in the first round. (Jeb Bush lost to Joe Lieberman.)

Now Crist faces U.S. Sen. John Thune of South Dakota.Original post b…

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