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• Family, friends of former U.S. Marine from Miami detained in Mexico call for his release

  When the mother of a military veteran arrested and detained in a dangerous foreign jail called her congresswoman’s office two weeks ago asking for help, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said she had a hard time believing former Marine Lance Cpl. Jon Hammar was in prison for carrying a six-decade-old shotgun into [...]

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• State clemency board grants pardon to wrongly imprisoned man

  After a wrongful murder conviction that put him behind bars for 27 years, William Michael Dillon received formal forgiveness from the state Thursday.

  Dillon, who was awarded a $1.3 million settlement by the state in March, stood before Gov. Rick Scott and the Cabinet and recounted how far his life has [...]

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• Citizens to abandon loan program for private companies, floats new 'clearinghouse' idea

  Lawmakers and policyholder advocates have panned a proposal by Citizens Property Insurance to allow private insurers to borrow up to $50 million in exchange for taking over Citizens policies. Citizens officials defended the plan to set aside $350 million of the company’s surplus cash to dole out to private [...]

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• Florida, other state secession petitions due White House response

  We told you last month about the state seccession petitions that popped up on the White House's "We the People" website shortly after President Barack Obama won re-election. The window to garner enough signatures to warrant a White House response passed this week for most of these petitions; Florida and [...]

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• PSC ready to sign onto a four-year FPL rate case deal

  The Public Service Commission on Thursday agreed to award Florida Power & Light a $358 million base rate request that includes a series of rate increases over four years and rejected a call from the public counsel that the company scale back its rates.

  After a morning hearing discussing the nuts and bolts of a [...]

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• Crist's run-from-the-past run continues (gay-marriage edition)

  From Republican to independent to Democrat, Charlie Crist has run the gamut of major political affiliations since 2010. As a statewide office-seeker since 1998, the former Republican governor became an independent when he couldn't beat Marco Rubio in a GOP Senate primary. So Crist became an independent.

  Crist now sees a [...]

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• Private poll: Crist has big lead in Democratic primary

  A new private poll of 1,000 Democratic voters gives former Gov. Charlie Crist an overwhelming advantage over all other Democrats in a hypothetical primary for governor, including a 21-point lead in a test matchup against Alex Sink, the party's 2010 nominee.

  Neither Crist nor Sink has announced plans to run for governor. [...]

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• U.S. Rep.-Elect Lois Frankel hires chief of staff

  A couple of familiar faces will be working for Lois Frankel when she is sworn in as a member of Congress Jan. 3 to represent Broward/Palm Beach District 22. Frankel has hired Jonathon Bray, her campaign manager, as chief of staff. She has also hired Sarah Rothschild as communications director. [...]
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• Mel Martinez on higher taxes: “Republicans are going to have to swallow the pill."

  Florida’s former senator and a one-time head of the national Republican Party, Mel Martinez, said Thursday that members of his own party need to get ready to go along with higher taxes.
  
  “Republicans are going to have to swallow the pill they don’t want to swallow,” Martinez said on [...]

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• FAMU only state university to ever face SACS probation

  When it comes to the regional accrediting body for colleges and universities, most of Florida's public universities have steered clear of major issues.

  Florida A&M University is the only one of 11 existing state universities to have ever been placed on Southern Association of Colleges and Schools probation, the Board of [...]

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