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• New DOC chief has privatization work cut out for him

  TALLAHASSEE -- New appointed Department of Correction Secretary Michael Crews is inheriting an agency beset with bad press, budget woes, and demoralized workers.

  Tapped Monday by Gov. Rick Scott to replace retiring Secretary Ken Tucker, Crews said it was time the employees at the nation's third-largest prison system got some [...]

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• Scott names Crews as new corrections chief

  TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott named Michael Crews as the new Secretary of the Department of Corrections Monday morning.

  Crews, currently serving as deputy secretary, was widely expected to get the promotion to succeed Secretary Ken Tucker, who is retiring at the end of the year.

  Crews has been [...]

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• Monday Morning Reads: Medicaid, provisional ballots and Citizens'

  TALLAHASSEE -- Good morning and happy Monday to you all.

  Here's what we're reading this morning.

  * Former Agriculture Commissioner Doyle Connor has died, AP reports. He was 83.

  * A Sentinel investigation finds that Florida's rivers are getting sicker.

  * A provisional ballot law did not' [...]

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• Fiscal cliff hitting Florida budget-writers

  TALLAHASSEE -- State economists updated the financial picture for Gov. Rick Scott and legislative budget-writers Friday, and the news was mostly good -- adding $391.7 million to the pot of cash lawmakers expect to have to spend through mid-2014.

  Florida lawmakers were already looking at a roughly $438 million surplus [...]

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• Friday Morning Reads: Citizens, Justin Timberlake and Charlie Crist

  TALLAHASSEE -- Good morning and happy Friday.

  Here's what we're reading this morning.

  * Florida's still leading the nation in foreclosures, the Sun-Sentinel writes.

  * Ctizens' Property Insurance appears ready to shelve a controversial loan program that would try to move policies out of Citizens and into private companies, [...]

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• Citizens to shelve loan program for now

  From the News Service of Florida
  
  TALLAHASSEE -- Citizens Property Insurance Corp will shelve a controversial $350 million loan program while it gathers data and looks at more options to reduce the number of policies in the state-backed insurer.

  Citizens Chief Financial Officer Sharon Binnun told a [...]

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• Video: A capital fruitcake

  TALLAHASSEE -- One of the capital city's prominent public relations firms has a message for you this holiday season: Don't give anyone fruitcake.

  Watch their holiday video featuring Attorney General Pam Bondi and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, among others.

  
  
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• Thursday Morning Reads: Affordable Care Act, Bright Futures and Elections

  TALLAHASSEE -- Good morning and happy Thursday.

  Here are the top five stories we're reading this morning.

  
  * Secretary of State Ken Detzner visited with South Florida election officials Wednesday and got an earful, the Sun-Sentinel writes.

  * The Orlando Sentinel reports on a' [...]

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• Civil rights commissioners urge Justice probe of Florida election

  Four Democratic members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights are urging the Justice Department to investigate allegations that Republicans in the Florida Legislature intentionally tried to suppress minority voters through a controversial new election law.

  The commission – apparently divided four to four -- will not hold a hearing [...]

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• Wednesday Morning Reads: Cigarettes, Probation and Charlie Crist

  TALLAHASSEE -- Good morning and happy Wednesday to you.

  Here's what we're reading this morning.

  * The Sun-Sentinel writes that a new proposal being floated in Palm Beach County would use cigarette tax dollars to help fund new biotech research.

  * The Orlando Sentinel reports that FAMU has' [...]

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