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• Editorial: Florida privatization runs of rails with Blind Services

  Another state agency, another privatization scheme off the rails.

  The account of how the Florida Division of Blind Services has failed to monitor the agency's private vendors is just one more example for Republican Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, who has been trying to bring sensible reform to the state's privatization [...]

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• Editorial: Florida privatization runs off rails with Blind Services

  Another state agency, another privatization scheme off the rails.

  The account of how the Florida Division of Blind Services has failed to monitor the agency's private vendors is just one more example for Republican Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, who has been trying to bring sensible reform to the state's privatization [...]

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• Weatherford seeks to change tone as House Speaker, but will push conservative agenda

   TALLAHASSEE --  Incoming House Speaker Will Weatherford said Tuesday he wants to be known as an “inclusive reformer” for the next two years, one who works more with Democrats than his predecessor, Dean Cannon, but also continue to push a conservative agenda.

  Top on his list is eliminating the state’s defined [...]

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• Gov. Rick Scott's mother, Esther, passes away

  Gov. Rick Scott just sent this tweet: "My Mom – one of the only constants in my life – has passed away. Ann and I are comforted by all the thoughts and prayers for our family."

  Scott cancelled events last month and flew to Kansas City, Mo., to visit [...]

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• Florida's acting Education Commissioner calls Indiana's Tony Bennett "focused, very driven"

  As Florida searches for a new state superintendent, there is growing buzz about Indiana’s former commissioner, Tony Bennett. He lost his reelection bid to run Indiana’s schools last week and chairs Chiefs for Change, which is part of former Gov. Jeb Bush’s education foundation.

  Last week, the vice chair of the [...]

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• Who really won Florida's Cuban vote? Analysts have conflicting results

  A claim that nearly half of Cuban-American voters favored President Barack Obama continued under dispute Monday, with one side claiming it had new evidence that it was true and the other insisting it was false.

  FIU professors Dario Moreno and Kevin Hill reported Monday their analysis of tallies from selected precincts in [...]

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• State courts struggle with Supreme Court ruling on young killers

  Five months ago, the U.S. Supreme Court banned mandatory sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole for juveniles convicted of murder.

  But since the Miller v. Alabama decision, Florida courts have struggled to apply the ruling — and two Miami-Dade cases may help settle key lingering legal questions.

  Does the ruling [...]

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• Tampa socialite becomes next focus in Patraeus scandal

  TAMPA — When Dr. Scott T. Kelley moved from the Northeast to become one of Moffitt Cancer Center's most distinct specialists, his wife, Jill, threw herself into the South Tampa social scene.

  She volunteered for committees to organize galas and fashion shows benefiting the American Red Cross and the Tampa [...]

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