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• Broward’s LeMieux drops out of U.S. Senate race

  Updated at 10:35 a.m. and 11:09 a.m.

  After failing to chip away at U.S. Rep. Connie Mack’s enormous advantage in name recognition, George LeMieux dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on Wednesday morning.

  “Connie Mack will be our nominee. He has my support,” LeMieux [...]

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• Internal fighting erupts again among Broward Democrats

  Updated at 2:45 p.m., 2:50 p.m. and 7:16 p.m.

  The hottest issue for the Broward Democratic Party isn’t trying to re-elect President Barack Obama. It’s not trying to wrest a South Florida state Senate seat from Republican Ellyn Bogdanoff. Nor is it trying to get a Democrat elected to the [...]

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• Property Appraiser Lori Parrish "pissed'' at late county commissioners

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

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• Racism hinted in debate over elex office for Broward's Dr. Snipes

  Nine years into a search for a new elections headquarters in Broward, a supporter of the county’s elections supervisor hinted the reason there’s still no office is that she’s black.

  Though Brenda Snipes rarely speaks at public meetings about the office project, her surrogates and advocates pass on messages [...]

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• High schoolers in Broward lean to the political left

  Who would have thought teen-agers would want to go to their parents’ parties? Political parties, that is.

  A voter drive at the high schools by the supervisor of elections office shows those teen-age rebels have similar political stripes to mom and dad in Broward, the majority being Democrats.

  Here’s the [...]

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• Funny email exchange involving Commissioner Holness

  Every once in a while, we're reminded of the impact one letter in the alphabet can make.

  Consider, for example, what happened in a recent email exchange between a Fort Lauderdale man and Broward County Commissioner Dale Holness.

  Holness replied to an email from a male constituent, but left' [...]

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• Dueling videos: Rick Scott gets friendly treatment from FOX, mocked by Daily Show

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  Gov. Rick Scott’s effort to purge the state’s voter rolls of non citizens is bogged down in [...]

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• Obama immigration decision greeted with praise, criticism

  Making a big play for Hispanic voters, President Barack Obama on Friday ordered a halt to deportations of young illegal immigrants who came to America as children, giving hundreds of thousands of people a chance to stay as long as they have no criminal background and don’t pose a security [...]

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• South Florida praises, pans Obama decision to implement Dream Act provisions

  Updated at 11:55 a.m., 1 p.m., 1:41 p.m., 1:59 p.m., 3:27 p.m. and 7:15 p.m.

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  Making a big play for Hispanic voters, President Barack Obama on Friday ordered the federal government to implement portions of the so-called Dream Act.

  He’s ordered his [...]

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• State Rep. Thurston involved in Michael Brewer case

  State Rep. Perry Thurston is busy this week, and it has nothing to do with his re-election campaign.

  He's representing attempted murder suspect Matthew Bent, accused in the case involving a group of boys and Michael Brewer, who was set aflame in 2009.

  Click here to read my colleague Rafael [...]

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