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• Dolphins take stadium pitch to Miami Gardens

  The Miami Dolphins took their Sun Life Stadium renovations pitch on the road Thursday, highlighting support from a county commissioner and the mayor of Miami Gardens, the team’s hometown for 26 years.

  The politicians’ backing carries weight in the city that perhaps knows the Dolphins best.

  But that neighborly history also has [...]

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• Video: Gov. Rick Scott has Happy Feet

  Florida Governor Rick Scott continued to stump for education spending in his proposed budget Thursday during a visit to South Pointe Elementary in Miami Beach, where he announced that AT&T is contributing $200,000 to train teachers in new Common Core curriculum.

  He also received a Valentine from a second grader and showed [...]

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• Pew Research Center: More negative than positive response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech

  From the Pew Research Center:

  Unfavorable: 58 percent

  Favorable: 42 percent

  Twitter users had a wide range of reactions during and immediately after President Obama's State of the Union speech. Topics that drew the most attention were education, the minimum wage, the economy, gun control and the deficit.

  Check out their graphic here

  And [...]

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• Bush gets real with Gaetz on education reform, coy on future

  Before a meeting with Senate President Don Gaetz on Thursday, former Gov. Jeb Bush said he believed the parent trigger bill introduced this week would pass.

  "As I understand what the law is, it’s a pretty simple law,” Bush said. “If you’re in a failing school, parents oughta have the ability, if they want to, [...]

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• Miami-Dade charter schools run by bro of U.S. Veep Biden under scrutiny

  Auditors with Miami-Dade County Public Schools want to take a closer look at a charter school chain run by the brother of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden due to financial woes and allegations that the company is inflating student enrollment numbers.

  Mavericks Charter High Schools, an alternative education chain headed by company [...]

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• Jeb Bush visits with Weatherford and House Republicans

  Former Gov. Jeb Bush met with Florida House Republicans on Thursday, but what he told them is pretty much hush hush because the meeting was held behind closed doors with reporters stuck waiting outside.

  “It was a really good talk,” said Rep. Dane Eagle, R-Cape Coral, as he walked out. “He spoke on immigration [...]

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• Daphne Campbell's bill banning red light cameras clears first hurdle

  Just two years after state lawmakers passed a law that allowed the use of red light cameras on Florida streets, a House committee reversed course and approved a bill that would banish them.

  The House Economic Affairs Committee narrowly approved HB 4011 by a 10-8 vote, underscoring just how divisive the public safety program is.

   “I believe [...]

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