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• Study: Tally’s Location Influences Bad Government

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

   

  Tallahassee’s remote location fosters  a lack of accountability, a disregard for the public good in the Legislature and corruption.

  That’s what a new study led by Harvard researchers Filipe Campante, David Chor  and Quoc-Anh Do found.  They were studying the role of a state capital’s location in good government.

  Their findings found:

  Isolated [...]
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• Browardbeat Details Local Projects In State Budget

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  Gov. Rick Scott okayed on Monday most of the spending for Broward approved by the Legislature.

  Still, Scott vetoed state spending on some Broward projects Monday. Other programs in Broward may have been affected by budget language vetoed by the governor.

  The projects vetoed are:

  * Transportion Hub, State Road 7, Lauderdale [...]

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• County’s Ethics Cop Accused Of Breaking Ethics Law

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

   

  Broward  Inspector General John Scott,  who enforces the county’s ethics law, is accused of violating the same law.

   

  John Scott

   

  Scott is alleged to have attempted to sway the selection of a firm to clean Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport by writing the county’s purchasing director he had “evidence” that [...]

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• City Manager With Bad Temper Paid To Leave?

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

  After belittling and yelling at at least three of the five city commission bosses, Coconut Creek City Manager David Rivera is on his way out.

  The question is when?

  It all depends on money.

  If Rivera is fired, he gets hundreds of thousands under his contract.

  If he quits, nothing.

  Word is that [...]

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• Yearbook Supports Principal Who Was Dumped

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  (Thank you, readers.

  Your comments – many of them astute and very well presented – has caused me to rethink my position on the Yearbook.

  My original post below was inarticulate enough to cause confusion. I’m big enough to admit that.

  I applaud the students who worked in any capacity on [...]

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• New Florida Bar Prez Is School Board’s Hit Man

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

   

  Eugene Pettis will be sworn in as the new president of the Florida Bar next month.

  The Fort Lauderdale lawyer is being acclaimed as the first black leader of the almost 100,000 lawyers in Florida.

   

  Eugene Pettis

   

  Pettis might be a great lawyer.

  He is also the lawyer who has defended [...]

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• Dolphins’ Steven Ross: Pity The Poor Billionaire

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  BY SAM FIELDS

   

  I owe Miami Dolphins owner Steven Ross an apology for my earlier columns attacking the 83rd richest American. I erroneously went after him for his unwillingness to use his $4.5 billion to pay for all the improvements to “Joe Robbie, Landshark, Sun Life, Russell, etc., Stadium”.

  It turns out [...]

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• Rick Scott Campaigning Early & Hard

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  You’ve got wonder whether Gov. Rick Scott has the stamina to keep it up for another 18 months.

  Scott doesn’t even have a credible Democratic opponent, yet he is running like its two weeks before the election.

  On Monday, Scott launched his Teachers Pay Raise Pep Rally Tour. It got [...]

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• School Board Member Who Used “N” Word Draws Black Opponent

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

   

  School Board member Ann Murray, who was reprimanded for making a bigoted statement using the “N” word, has picked up a re-election challenge from a black elected official.

  Vice Mayor Felicia Brunson of West Park holds her kick off fundraiser tonight.

  The only 2014 School Board candidate to draw an [...]

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• Waste Company Plays Environment Card In New Radio Ads

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  The upstart company fighting for a piece of the county’s multi-millon dollar waste disposal business is trying a new tactic to win business — radio ads proclaiming they are better for the environment.

  A Sun-Bergeron spokesman said  the company made “a substantial radio buy”  and that the ads begin [...]

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