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  • Miami-Dade mayor names election advisory group

    Two weeks after Election Day, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez announced Tuesday night the 13 members of his election advisory group.

    Gimenez convened the group after the election was marked by long voting lines, both during early voting and on Election Day. The group will begin meeting at 9 a.m. next [...]

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  • Florida teachers campaign against new evaluation system

    From the Times' Gradebook blog:

    The Florida Education Association on Tuesday kept up its full-court press on state leaders to back away from value-added calculations in teacher evaluations. The union conducted a news conference at which teachers talked about their concerns in using student test results crunched through VAM to [...]

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  • Exclusive: Citizens Insurance plagued by laundry list of office scandals

    At Citizens Property Insurance Corp., a corporate culture plagued by inter-office scandals, sexual impropriety, lavish spending, alleged cover-ups and big severance checks for disgraced employees has simmered under the radar for years, according to hundreds of internal documents obtained by the Herald/Times.

    The corporate cauldron of misconduct boiled over this year when [...]

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  • Newly sworn in Miami-Dade mayor plans to tackle 'big-picture changes'

    Sworn into his first full term on Tuesday, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez promised big things from his administration by aiming to lift the county into “the ranks of the world’s leading global cities.”

    “We’ve got work to do if we want to be mentioned alongside the New Yorks, the Londons and [...]

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  • Breaking down the riddle in Don Gaetz's inaugural Senate address

    Addressing the Florida Senate for the first time as its president, Don Gaetz outlined his vision for the year and vowed to reach across the aisle and the rotunda during his term as president. He also took the time to welcome newly elected senators and their families to Tallahassee, welcoming [...]

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  • Texting and 'Sharia' bans among first bills filed for 2013

    Florida lawmakers have filed their first bills of the season.

    Several are familiar: A ban on texting while driving, a requirement that parasailing operators carry insurance and a 'foreign law' bill criticized by opponents as anti-Islamic.

    Sen. Nancy Detert, R-Venice, who sponsored anti-texting while driving bills for the past two sessions says she has renewed hope for [...]

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  • Miami-Dade commissioner shows off singing chops at swearing-in ceremony

    Miami-Dade County Hall insiders already knew that Commissioner Rebeca Sosa could sing.

    She has belted out the national anthem before at past county events. And she has serenaded constituents at senior centers -- a practice that became so popular that she eventually recorded a CD to hand out to supporters.

    On Tuesday, [...]

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  • New Florida Speaker Weatherford to House: We will define our time

    TALLAHASSEE -- Taking the gavel from his father-in-law, former House Speaker Allan Bense, Will Weatherford was unanimously voted as the chamber's next speaker.

    The following is the prepared text of his acceptance speech this morning.

    In speeches like this, people often say, “we are living in unprecedented times.” Perhaps that’s true. It’s not something we [...]

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  • Florida makes it official and certifies election results

    Gov. Rick Scott and two other statewide elected officials who comprise the state's Election Canvassing Commission certified the 2012 results Tuesday, an action that formally delivers Florida's 29 electoral votes to President Barack Obama.

    Fittingly, however, every county but one reported final results to the state. The lone county to miss [...]

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  • Gaetz talks Senate priorities in speech

    Incoming Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, is expected to deliver the following remarks in Tallahassee today. Fellow lawmakers this morning elected him president of the Florida Senate.

    Governor Scott, Lt. Governor Carroll, Mr. President, Mr. Chief Justice, fellow Senators and fellow citizens.

    Thank you, Senator Detert and Senator Montford, for your generous remarks and your [...]

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