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  • From Haiti, to Miami, to DC, Sean Penn takes up cause of Haiti

    The actor -- spotted in Miami over the weekend -- will testify Wednesday before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, which is looking at ways to help the earthquake shattered country "rebuild better."

    Celebs have flocked to Haiti in the wake of the disaster, but the Herald says, none were [...]

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  • Rubio to Spanish-language TV: I support change to Arizona immigration law...but not law itself?

    Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio, speaking on Spanish-language television Monday night, said he supported a change to Arizona's controversial immigration law -- and not necessarily the law itself.

    "The law, how it is now, do you support it, yes or no?" Maria Elvira Salazar asked on Mega TV's Maria Elvira [...]

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  • UPDATE: Rubio to Spanish-language TV: I support change to Arizona immigration law...but not law itself?

    Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio, speaking on Spanish-language television Monday night, said he supported a change to Arizona's controversial immigration law -- and not necessarily the law itself.

    "The law, how it is now, do you support it, yes or no?" Maria Elvira Salazar asked on Mega TV's Maria Elvira [...]

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  • Lee Constantine adds his name to the list of PSC wanna-bes

    State Sen. Lee Constantine, an Orlando Republican who is chairman of the Public Service Commission Nominating Council on Monday resigned from the council that recommends applicants to the state utility board and instead said he'll apply for the board himself.

    "I believe I know the issues. I believe I'm passionate about [...]

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  • BP agrees to give Florida $25 million to promote tourism

    Gov. Charlie Crist announced Monday that BP's CEO Tony Hayward has agreed to pay the state $25 million for a national tourism ad campaign. The cash will be in addition to the $25 million the state has already received.

    “As one of the world’s favorite travel destinations, we will use every [...]

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  • Broward sheriff punts to county on firefighter pay raises

    A special magistrate ruled in favor of firefighters getting raises at the Broward Sheriff's Office and now Sheriff Al Lamberti wants to hand off the next step to County Commissioners.

    Lamberti said he asked County Administrator Bertha Henry to have the county write a letter to the Public Employee Relations Commission [...]

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  • Senate hires MacNamara as personnel advisor

    MacNamara

    Sen. Mike Haridopolos, R-Melbourne, who's busy planning to take over the presidency in November, has made his first transition appointment: Steve MacNamara (right) .

    The former House chief of staff (under John Thrasher, now a senator), and a tenured professor at FSU, is advising Haridopolos on "personnel [...]

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  • Kiser and Brise seek appointment to Public Service Commission

    Former state Sen. Curt Kiser, a Republican, and Miami Rep. Ron Brise, a Democrat, have submitted their applications for the Public Service Commission to fill one of two posts being vacated by the Senate's rejection of sitting commissioners David Klement and Benjamin "Steve" Stevens.

    Kiser was the olive branch candidate to become the [...]

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  • Sansom appeal dismissed

    A judge has allowed grand theft charges against former House Speaker Ray Sansom to stand, moving the case of a $6 million airport building closer to trial.

    While the appropriation had to go through official channels, "that doesn't mean that the plan of the defendants was not possible," Circuit Judge Terry [...]

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  • A Charlie Crist ag-bill veto conspiracy theory

    Gov. Charlie Crist's decision to veto a relatively non-controversial citrus-industry bill, HB981, has the ag community seeing some conspiracy. Ostensibly, the bill concerned citrus research, but it also included some property-tax language (background here) that Crist used as his grounds for vetoing the bill.

    "I have concerns about making [...]

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