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• Rick Scott faces tough decision on costly SunRail project

  Roused by his tea party base, Gov. Rick Scott early this year halted a decades-in-the-works bullet train linking Tampa and Orlando — citing concerns about possible costs to Florida taxpayers. Yet a different fate awaits SunRail, a commuter rail line in Central Florida that would cost state taxpayers even more. [...]

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• Connie Mack to endorse Mike Haridopolos?

  We're getting word that U.S. Rep. Connie Mack intends to endorse his old friend, Senate President Mike Haridopolos, in the crowded Republican primary race for U.S. Senate. Mack had toyed with running for the seat, but opted to stay put in his Lee County-based congressional district, which will be redrawn [...]

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• Absentee ballots key in Miami-Dade mayor's race

  The act of voting has long been protected by safeguards aimed to ensure it is done in privacy—usually in the sanctity of a curtained polling booth, free of intrusion or coercion.

  No longer. For more and more people in Greater Miami, voting is very different. It doesn’t take place in a [...]

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• Gimenez, Robaina and the perks of public office

  The two candidates vying to become the next mayor of Miami-Dade have promised to deliver reform at County Hall, long plagued with generous salaries and excessive benefits for officials. Yet both Carlos Gimenez and Julio Robaina have themselves reaped the perks of public office.

  Former county commissioner Gimenez had a car [...]

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• In Miami-Dade, the I'm-not-Carlos-Alvarez election

  Julio Robaina and Carlos Gimenez would like voters to believe that they have sharply opposed views on how to be the one thing the public clearly wants: a take-charge mayor who will hold the line on taxes and make a dysfunctional County Hall work.

  But in reality, the candidates’ messages in [...]

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• Miami-Dade hopefuls wind down campaigns

  With the end of the grueling campaign for Miami-Dade mayor in sight, Julio Robaina and Carlos Gimenez traversed the county on Saturday, trying to outrun the rain and seeking the last-minute support of voters casting their ballots early.

  Gimenez started the day in Aventura and worked his way south to West [...]

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