Florida
Senate unveils privatization re-do plan
By at 18 January, 2012, 6:48 pm
TALLAHASSEE – A Senate panel opened the door Wednesday to give the Senate a second shot at privatizing 29 prisons in South Florida and eliminate some of the obstacles that led a Tallahassee judge to reject a similar plan this summer. The Senate Rules Committee, chaired by Sen. John Thrasher, Read More
Read More >>FDLE Wanted To Arrest Doral Chief Ricardo Gomez, But Prosecutors Wouldn’t Sign Off
Starting this past April, FDLE investigators began looking into a half dozen allegations lodged against Doral Police Chief Ricardo Gomez, from charges of bid fixing to shady hires to illegally s… Continue reading “FDLE Wanted To Arrest Doral Chief Ricardo Gomez, But Prosecutors Read More
Read More >>Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Comes Out Against SOPA, Too
By Kyle Munzenrieder at 18 January, 2012, 5:14 pm
Miami-area congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtnin has finally made her position on SOPA clear: she’s against it. Unlike Marco Rubio, who changed his position on SOPA’s Senate companion, PIPA, earlier t… Continue reading “Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Comes Out Against SOPA, Read More
Read More >>Don Bartling of Miami Arrested for Having Possibly Thousands of Child Porn Movies on His Computer
By Kyle Munzenrieder at 18 January, 2012, 5:12 pm
Don Bartling, a 54-year-old Miami resident and a student at Florida International University, has been arrested on charges of downloading and sharing child pornography. Bartling, according to a … Continue reading “Don Bartling of Miami Arrested for Having Possibly Thousands of Read More
Read More >>Scott taps former Jeb appointee as new Secretary of State
By at 18 January, 2012, 4:46 pm
TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott has named Ken Detzner as the new Secretary of State, replacing Kurt Browning, who earlier this month offered his resignation. “Kurt’s dedicated service and hard work with Florida’s 67 independently elected Supervisors of Elections have prepared our state Read More
Read More >>Feds establish Everglades headwaters refuge
By at 18 January, 2012, 4:39 pm
An Everglades refuge and conservation area was officially established on Wednesday when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar accepted the first donation of land for the project in south-central Florida. The Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area is designed to provide a Read More
Read More >>Miami Workers Are the Happiest Workers in America According to Some Sort of Study
By Kyle Munzenrieder at 18 January, 2012, 4:14 pm
While it may be increasingly difficult to actually secure employment in Miami, those of us who have seem to love our job. That’s according to a new study by CareerBliss.com that analyzed more t… Continue reading “Miami Workers Are the Happiest Workers in America According to Read More
Read More >>Most states, but not Florida, progressing on health reform
By at 18 January, 2012, 3:57 pm
Twenty-eight states are well on their way to establishing Affordable Insurance Exchanges, but Florida is not one of them, according to a federal report released on Wednesday. Nancy-Ann DeParle touts exchanges The report amounts to a pat on the back to those states preparing for these exchanges, Read More
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