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• Miami-Dade Dems choose first Latina chair, Annette Taddeo-Goldstein

  In Florida's largest and most-Hispanic county, the largest political party has finally managed to choose a leader who's "Latina," according to the following press release:

  Miami, FL — Annette Taddeo-Goldstein has made history by being elected the first Latina chairwoman of the Miami-Dade Democratic Executive Committee (DEC) at the December 3rd [...]

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• State: Insurers to be allowed to raise rates first and justify them later

  From the News Service of Florida:

  Insurance companies will continue to be allowed to raise rates before final state approval is given under an order signed Monday by Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty. 
  
  With a number of recent changes in state insurance laws leading to an unusually high number of filings, regulators don't [...]

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• State: Insurers to be allowed to change forms first and justify them later

  Correction of a previous post from the News Service of Florida:

  Hit with a heavy spike in requests for changes in forms, the Office of Insurance Regulation on Monday issued a rule allowing companies to go forward with changes without prior approval in certain cases.
  
  The order, signed Monday by Insurance Commissioner Kevin [...]
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• Senate 'Obamacare' committee gets an earful from opponents to law

   The first committee meeting of the 2013 legislative session was the Senate's Select Committee on Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and it had all the makings of a classic: a grim overview on the implementation of a controversial new law, shouting audience members and  fiery monologue from a senior [...]

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• Outgoing Indiana schools chief applies for Florida education commissioner job

  From the Times' Gradebook blog:

  Outgoing Indiana superintendent of public instruction Tony Bennett was one of 10 candidates to meet Friday's deadline to apply for the Florida education commissioner. He also was the most high profile hopeful, and the only well-known reformer, to enter the field. As we reported earlier, [...]

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• PolitiFact checks claim by Broward GOP about League of Women Voters guide

  It’s not easy being a Republican in Broward County -- home to the largest number of Democratic voters in Florida and a county where registered GOP voters are outnumbered two to one by Democrats.  
  
  Beyond the numbers, Broward’s liberalism often makes amusing headlines -- from a 2002 gay mayoral candidate [...]

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• State: Roadway fatalities down, teen deaths deaths up

  From Florida's Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles:

  Fatalities on Florida’s roadways decreased in 2011 by nearly 2 percent adding up to a 32-percent reduction in deaths on Florida’s roadways since 2005. The fatality rate per mile traveled in 2011 held steady at its all-time low, first reached in 2010. [...]

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• Gov. Scott's trade mission to Bogota his largest yet

  Gov. Rick Scott will be in Bogota, Columbia until Wednesday, seeking to drum up business between the Sunshine State and the Latin American nation that is Florida's second-largest trading partner. The trip to Colombia, organized by Enterprise Florida, is Scott's seventh overseas mission and his largest one yet. Read the [...]

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• Bondi's ObamaCare claim is put to the Truth-O-Meter

  Some Florida public officials, including Gov. Rick Scott, have softened their tone on the federal health care law since the U.S. Supreme Court declared it constitutional and President Barack Obama was re-elected.
  
  But don’t count Attorney General Pam Bondi among those officials.
  
  In remarks at a Florida Chamber [...]
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