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• Mayo: Line up the tomatoes, it's Legislature's last week

  There are various metaphors for the end of the Florida Legislature's annual session, and none of them are pretty: Sausage-making, for one. And then there's another, which comes at the tail end of the digestive process. [...]
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• Mayo: Talking Legislature on TV-Ch. 4 this Sunday

  Shameless plug alert: I'll be appearing on TV this Sunday, taking part in a roundtable discussion about the last week of the Florida Legislature's 2013 session on Facing South Florida with Jim DeFede. The show airs at 11:30 a.m. this Sunday (April 28) on WFOR-Ch. 4, the Miami CBS affiliate. [...]
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• Mayo: Is Morikami hotel a good idea?

  I love the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens near Boca Raton and Delray Beach. I love the peace and tranquility. I love the rock gardens and rustling bamboo. I love the turtles and koi. But I don’t know if I love this idea about bringing a 5-star hotel and spa [...]
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• Mayo: Is Morikami hotel a good idea?

  I love the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens near Boca Raton and Delray Beach. I love the peace and tranquility. I love the rock gardens and rustling bamboo. I love the turtles and koi. But I don't know if I love this idea about bringing a 5-star hotel and spa' [...]
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• Mayo: Why wasn't Wasserman-Rubin judge tossed?

  The takeaway from Diana Wasserman-Rubin's misdemeanor plea deal: Crime pays, especially for politicians who abuse the public trust. Once again, Broward State Attorney Mike Satz comes up looking soft on political corruption. And just who is Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Spencer Eig, and why didn't Satz's prosecutors call for his recusal' [...]
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• Mayo: Obit for Roni Frye, 66, MacCarthy's news

  Last Monday turned out to be more bittersweet than I realized. It was strange enough when news of the horrific bombing at the Boston Marathon started streaming out just moments after the Sun Sentinel learned that it had won the first Pulitzer Prize in the newspaper's 102-year-history. [...]
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• Mayo: An unsettling week, with an ugly past

  A terror bombing at the Boston Marathon, an explosion at a Texas fertilizer factory and tainted mail in Washington, D.C. have made for an unsettling week. Throw in anniversaries of some of America's most tragic and traumatic days -- Virginia Tech, Oklahoma City, Columbine, Waco -- and it becomes downright creepy. [...]
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• Mayo: Carlos Arredondo, war mourner to Boston hero

  Remember Carlos Arredondo, who set himself (and a Marine van) on fire outside his Hollywood home after learning of his son's death in the Iraq War in 2004? He was a hero at the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday. [...]
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• Mayo: Hurricane predictions -- hot air or useful?

  The first in a parade of ever-changing hurricane predictions for the 2013 storm season was released last week (subject to later revision, of course) and I didn't know whether to laugh, scream or yawn. ' [...]
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• Mayo: SB1770 could blow insurance prices sky high

  The Florida Senate is poised to vote on a major overhaul of property insurance on Tuesday (SB1770) that could cause rates to soar, those insured by state-run Citizens and private insurers alike. [...]
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