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• Mayo: Boy Scouts gay decision angers all sides

  The Boy Scouts of America tried to lurch forward into the 21st century with its decision on Thursday allowing gay scouts, but it also managed to anger both sides of the contentious debate with its half-hearted half-step. [...]
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• Mayo: A poetry slam against Citizens giveaway

  Lots of things I'd like to lay down an angry rap about today (the Boy Scouts' pending half-baked, half-hearted stand on gays, the state's looting of Citizens' insurance reserves to give to politically-connected private upstarts, the Dolphin/NFL's efforts to extort public money for private stadium improvements), but I'll settle for [...]
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• Mayo: Would you be a contract prima donna or a pro?

  If you had a contract that would pay you nine months salary if you left your job, and you were entering the final year of that contract and it was apparent your bosses wouldn't be giving you a new one, what would you do? [...]
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• Mayo: Would you be a contract prima donna or a pro?

  If you had a contract that would pay you nine months salary if you left your job, and you were entering the final year of that contract and it was apparent your bosses wouldn't be giving you a new one, what would you do? [...]
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• Mayo: Will NFL go with history or hypocrisy for Super Bowl 50?

  If NFL owners have a sense of history and tradition, they'll award Super Bowl 50 to South Florida later today. ' [...]
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• Mayo: Arena score - Panthers $138.4 million, Broward $331,206

  For my Sunday print column, I wrote about the Broward County commission buying the Panthers a fancy new $4.2 million scoreboard, and the overall imbalance of the arena deal halfway through its 30-year life. [...]
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• Mayo: Hypocritical Fla. House gets cheap health insurance

  Florida House, hypocrisy is thy name. At least when it comes to the health care debate. [...]
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• Mayo: Hey politicians - I am not your mother!

  At first, I thought U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio had an address book mixup: "Thank You Mom," read the subject line on his email. [...]
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• Mayo: Why more 911 tax with 911 charge on phone bills?

  In order to regionalize the hodgepodge 911 system, Broward County commissioners this week approved a plan that would raise property taxes by roughly $20 a year per household. That brought a very good question from reader Warren G., who asked: [...]
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• Mayo: Plantation should join Broward 911 regionalization

  Twenty bucks a year -- the projected average household property tax increase -- is a small price to pay for long-awaited regionalization of 911 calls in Broward. [...]
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