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Miami-Dade commissioner tries to change Head Start vote
When Miami-Dade commissioners voted last month to outsource the county’s Head Start program for pre-K children, Commissioner Jean Monestime reluctantly voted yes.
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When Miami-Dade commissioners voted last month to outsource the county’s Head Start program for pre-K children, Commissioner Jean Monestime reluctantly voted yes.
Change for seniors can be a challenge, and their worries about a new company providing transportation services turned last week’s Miami Commission meeting into a bilingual affair. Some seniors had been told, incorrectly, that rides to nearby supermarkets would cost money, or not be available at all.
As the Florida Legislature pushes business-friendly tax cuts, local governments are being left with the bill, with billions of dollars slashed from their bottom lines.
Miami-Dade commissioners last week took back $3 million in funding they had approved last month to renovate a shopping center at Northwest 79th Street and 27th Avenue.
Critics charge the Legislature is targeting poor people — from requiring cash welfare recipients to pass a drug test to making it harder for people to keep unemployment benefits.
Democratic and independent voters have diluted GOP voting clout in 3 Miami congressional districts held by Republicans.
Mitt Romney narrowly won Maine's Republican caucuses, state party officials announced Saturday, providing his campaign with a much-needed boost after three straight losses earlier this week. But the former Massachusetts governor won just a plurality of the Maine vote, suggesting he still has work to do to unite GOP voters behind his candidacy.
It’s a light-day at the Capitol: Both the House and the Senate are not in session, and there are no ...
Lawmakers are crafting legislation to split the Lakeland campus of the University of South Florida into the...
Amid complaint from Democrats, the Republican-dominated state House approved a $69 billion budget. Next up:...
Moments after legislators take the final vote in their congressional and legislative maps, the Democratic P...
Miami Voice filed proposed wording for a Miami-Dade charter amendment to impose term limits on county commi...
The Obama administration and top Republicans, including Sen. Marco Rubio, continued their fight over a law ...
Catholics Days continues at the Capitol, culminating with Red Mass of the Holy Spirit program at 6 p.m. Not...
Miami Voice, a political action committee, plans to file language on Thursday for a Miami-Dade charter amen...
Republicans vowed Wednesday to reverse President Barack Obama's new policy on birth control, lambasting the...
Four of the most powerful mayors in Miami-Dade County will meet Thursday for lunch with the states le...
Money for buildings is a major issue for South Florida’s public school districts. In Miami-Dade, the...
As the Florida Legislature pushes business-friendly tax cuts, local governments are being left with the bi...
Democratic and independent voters have diluted GOP voting clout in 3 Miami congressional districts held by ...
When basketball coach Cleve Roberts took a Miami Norland team to play at Miami Jackson Senior High a few ye...
Ever wonder why the little old schoolhouse in Florida doesn’t last as long as buildings in other par...
Critics charge the Legislature is targeting poor people — from requiring cash welfare recipients to ...
Lawmakers are crafting legislation to split the Lakeland campus of the University of South Florida into the...
It’s a light-day at the Capitol: Both the House and the Senate are not in session, and there are no ...
Moments after legislators take the final vote in their congressional and legislative maps, the Democratic P...
In their despair, people who care deeply about public education in Florida sometimes get a little carried a...
Catholics Days continues at the Capitol, culminating with Red Mass of the Holy Spirit program at 6 p.m. Not...
From the start, it's been a roller-coaster race for the Republican presidential nomination.
From the start, it's been a roller-coaster race for the Republican presidential nomination.
The past week's dustup over contraception underscored President Barack Obama's early advantage in one impor...
President Barack Obama's long-sluggish poll numbers have inched up, the unemployment rate has dropped five ...
In a reprieve after his embarrassing losses last week in three states, Mitt Romney eked out a win Saturday ...
At last year's Conservative Political Action Conference, activists were chasing the idea that some dreamboa...
Sarah Palin argued Saturday that the Republican presidential nominee would only be strengthened by an exten...
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney got a much-needed boost Saturday, winning a key symbolic vote over fo...
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney got a much-needed boost Saturday, winning a key symbolic vote over fo...