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• Nelson releases more video of underwater spill

  Florida Senator Bill Nelson released more video evidence on Thursday of the underwater spill at the damaged BP well in the Gulf. The videos, including a live feed from the gusher, come as evidence mounts that far more oil is spewing from the well than previously estimated. Nelson put [...]
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• Meek seeks $75 million for Florida tourism

  Saying $25 million is not enough to promote Florida tourism, Senate candidate Kendrick Meek on Thursday urged BP to provide another $75 million to tell the nation that the state’s beaches are free of oil. BP this week promised to give Florida $25 million to mount a marketing campaign to counter [...]
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• Keys tourism official blasts news media on tar balls

  By Mike Clary Sun Sentinel Key West -- A spokesman for the Florida Keys tourism interests Wednesday blasted the news media for what he characterized as exaggerated and sometimes misleading reporting after the Coast Guard reported tar balls had been discovered on area beaches. “I believe some local and national broadcasters went [...]
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• Longer Tamiami bridge proposed to help Everglades

  At a Washington gathering to showcase the Everglades, a federal official announced on Wednesday that the Obama administration plans to add 5.5 miles of bridges along Tamiami Trail to restore a natural waterflow. The announcement sparked sustained applause from hundreds of environmentalists who came to “America’s Everglades Summit,” sponsored by the [...]
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• Floridian says `Told you so’ on oil spill

  The oil spill in the Gulf has created an “I-told-you-so moment” for Floridians who oppose offshore drilling, says South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The Weston Democrat urged her Florida colleagues at a meeting on Wednesday to reunite behind the no-drilling cause to help prevent future spills.
  Wasserman Schultz The [...]
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• Coast Guard: Oil spill headed for South Florida

  Part of the giant oil spill in the Gulf has entered the Loop Current and is headed for the Florida Keys, a Coast Guard official warned Florida members of Congress on Wednesday morning. The tar balls found in the Keys this week are unrelated to the spill, said Coast Guard Rear [...]
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• Obama chides Republicans over oil-spill liability

  President Obama accused Republicans on Tuesday of blocking efforts to make energy companies pay the full cost for causing oil spills and related disasters. "I am disappointed that an effort to ensure that oil companies pay fully for disasters they cause has stalled in the United States Senate on a" [...]
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• BP provides video of oil spill

  At Florida Senator Bill Nelson’s request, BP provided underwater videotape on Tuesday of oil gushing from its damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico. Nelson wanted scientists to see the tapes to help estimate how much oil is spewing from the well. Here’s an overview of the plume on May 15: [...]
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• Rick Scott neck-and-neck in potential general election matchup, poll says

  Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott’s self-financed, multi-million dollar TV advertising bonanza is paying off. Scott, a former health care executive, has a slim 41-40 percent lead in a hypothetical general election matchup with Democratic candidate Alex Sink, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Tuesday said. The poll, however, didn’t test the most pressing [...]
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• Brenda Snipes elections case up in Tallahassee today

  An elections-law case against Broward Supervior of Elections Brenda Snipes could be decided in the state Capitol today, perhaps putting an end to a two-year legal battle over a disputed 2008 Broward circuit court race. The case was brought to the Florida Elections Commission by Mardi Levey Cohen, a Fort Lauderdale [...]
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