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• Florida unemployment drops, Scott releases new job-creation chart on Easter egg

  Via Doug Hanks

   Job growth continues in South Florida, despite thinned-out payrolls in local government that now serve as the main anchor to a full recovery in hiring for the region.

  The February employment report generally brought good news statewide, as a recovery that once seemed at risk of stalling has appeared [...]

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• Retiring MIA director recalls 'helter skelter' of taking over airport

  @PatriciaMazzei

  It was José Abreu’s last groundbreaking ceremony, and the owner of a company building a new hangar at Opa-locka Executive Airport waved him over to grab a gold-plated shovel and stand for the photo op.

  But Abreu, director of the Miami-Dade Aviation Department, gently lifted his palm and shook his head. [...]

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• Miami city commission: confiscate gambling 'maquinitas'

  A week after Miami’s mayor called the video-gaming machines he once championed “illegal,’’ city commissioners directed the administration to arrange the seizure of the 1,000 or so machines scattered across cafeterias and video arcades.

  Commissioners, riding an anti-gaming wave flowing through the state legislature — which is set on making the [...]

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• Yoani Sánchez arrives in Miami, visits shrine of Cuba's patron saint

  Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez touched down at Miami International Airport Thursday afternoon and reacted emotionally to reuniting with her family as well as arriving in the heartland of Cuban exiles.

  Via her Twitter account, Sánchez said she would be spending the next few days with her sister Yunia, brother-in-law and niece [...]

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• Marco Rubio op-ed: President Obama's policies don't help Miami's middle class

  In a Miami Herald op-ed Friday, Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, urged President Barack Obama to think of policies to help small businesses, immigrants and the middle class grow. Obama is scheduled to visit PortMiami in the afternoon to promote investment in highways and other public works projects.

  From Rubio's [...]

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• Charlie Crist and the curiosity surrounding his flight on Air Ramba

  Is someone stalking Charlie Crist?
  
  The former governor last month was a passenger on a private plane owned by Tallahassee lobbyist Dave Ramba, who runs an air charter service. The flight was chartered by Fowler White, a Tallahassee law firm, and nobody but Crist and the law firm knew about [...]

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• Poll shows Floridians want texting ban; bill awaits next step

  Ninety-five percent of respondents questioned in a poll released Thursday by the University of Florida would support a ban on texting while driving, but supporters are waiting to see if legislative attempts to get a law on the books pass the finish line this year.

  “Ninety-five percent -- that’s pretty [...]

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• Florida universities anticipate big boost in state funding

  The mood among Florida's state universities is far different than a year ago, when they felt blind-sided by state budget cuts and were powerless to prevent them.

  House and Senate leaders say they plan to boost funding for the 12 public universities by over $100 million this year, in addition to [...]

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• Rick Scott's $1 million fundraising month

  As Florida legislators sit on their hands with a fundraising ban for session, Gov. Rick Scott has been holding fundraisers and collecting cash -- $1 million of it -- for his political committee, Let's Get to Work. 

  Admittedly half of it came in the form of a whopping check of [...]

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• Joe and George Scarborough, meet Will Weatherford

  Morning Joe co-host and former congressman Joe Scarborough mingled with a few House leaders at the Capitol Wednesday, including House Speaker Will Weatherford.
  
  In tow: his brother George Scarborough, a Pensacola consultant mulling a run for the Panhandle House seat formerly held by Clay Ford, who died last week [...]
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