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• GOP files first elections reform bill for 2013

  TALLAHASSEE -- The long-awaited Republican response to the long lines that plagued many Florida precincts was turned in today.

  It's a bill sponsored by Sen. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, R-Miami, that adds a day of early voting -- the Sunday before the election. The Republican controlled Legislature and Gov. Rick Scott [...]

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• GOP files its first elections reform bill for 2013

  TALLAHASSEE -- The long-awaited Republican response to the long lines that plagued many Florida precincts was turned in today.

  It's a bill sponsored by Sen. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, R-Miami, that adds a day of early voting -- the Sunday before the election. The Republican controlled Legislature and Gov. Rick Scott [...]

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• Critics, supporters weigh in on red-light camera report

  After the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles reported that accidents were down at intersections with red-light cameras, the Florida League of Cities and State Rep. Daphne Cambell, D-Miami, offered their opposing views.

  The report emphasizes that traffic accidents are down at intersections with red lights. But it also [...]

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• South Florida lawmakers bring back congressional 'Everglades Caucus'

  For all the partisan bickering that cripples Congress these days, there is one thing that Florida lawmakers have generally been able to agree on: the need to restore the Everglades.

  With a new congressional class coming in, two South Florida representatives — Miami Republican Mario Diaz-Balart and Miramar Democrat Alcee Hastings [...]

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• Democratic legislator files bill to end death penalty

  Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda, D-Tallahassee, has filed a bill that would end the death penalty in Florida, saying there are better and more cost effective ways to prevent crime. She advocates for more sentences of life without parole, saying this option is less costly than executions. Rehwinkel Vasilinda also argues [...]

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• Fact-checking Marco Rubio's fiscal cliff claim about Social Security

  The fiscal cliff negotiations are now over, but while they were happening, there were lots of accusations and finger-pointing.
  
  President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans finally struck a deal early in the morning on New Year’s Day to avoid going over the fiscal cliff, with senators voting 89-8 in favor. [...]
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• Alex Sink posts about late husband Bill McBride, thanks supporters

  Alex Sink just posted a message on her Facebook page thanking the people who have offered words of comfort and sympathy in the two weeks following the death of her husband, Bill McBride. The 67-year-old former gubernatorial candidate died of a heart attack on Dec. 22 and was funeralized [...]

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• Ex-Marine Jon Hammar, back home in Miami, recounts Mexican prison ordeal

  Only days after U.S. Marine veteran Jon Hammar was thrown into a Mexican prison for carrying an antique shotgun into the country, gangsters in the jail warned him of his likely fate – beheading.

  “They threw every threat in the book at me,” Hammar said Thursday in his first public remarks [...]

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• Marine veteran Jon Hammar, back home in Miami, recounts Mexican prison ordeal

  Only days after U.S. Marine veteran Jon Hammar was thrown into a Mexican prison for carrying an antique shotgun into the country, gangsters in the jail warned him of his likely fate – beheading.

  “They threw every threat in the book at me,” Hammar said Thursday in his first public remarks [...]

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• Lois Frankel, Joe Garcia sworn into Congress

  WASHINGTON -- Lois Frankel, the former mayor of sunny West Palm Beach, had to buy her first pair of winter boots in decades. Joe Garcia, who represents southern Miami-Dade County and the Keys, found a temporary room at University of Miami President Donna Shalala’s home in Georgetown.

  As Garcia and Frankel joined [...]

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