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Florida nursing home tragedy NOT a who-done-it
The worst loss of human life in Florida in the wake of Irma didn’t happen on one of low-lying towns on the lower Florida Keys where the eye of the storm first made landfall with full…
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Governor Rick Scott enabled Irma’s fury through climate denialism
Florida Gov. Rick Scott did not cause Irma, but he enabled the Frankenstorm. Scott met with Carbonmongers Charles and David Koch soon after being elected, and all of a sudden Florida’s…
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More than Bob Menendez goes on trial this week
There’s more to the Menendez trial than a high ranking Democratic senator charged with corruption. A conviction could lead to his ouster from the Senate. New Jersey Governor Chris…
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The made for Miami fairy tale of Marco the good vs. Cabello the bad
It’s hard to comprehend how people still believe Marco Rubio, or swallow the manufactured PR stunts that the press fall for that paint a picture of the U.S. senator from West Miami as…
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Next year’s Florida vote is crucial in the climate change battle
In Miami, the hottest July on record that climate change is marching on Florida. Yet, state voters have twice elected a governor, Rick Scott, and may replace him with a man, Adam…
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David Rivera’s in trouble again; Feds to the rescue
The FEC is seeking $486,000 in civil penalties against David Rivera. The FEC’s civil case is the latest indication that Miami federal prosecutors don’t intend to criminally charge…
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Crony capitalism in Florida—and beyond
Privatization has gone wild in Florida. Governing the state basically has been turned over to business. The clearest proof is that this year Florida will contract out to business more…
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Rubio, Diaz-Balart and Curbelo: Faustian enablers of ‘Anything but Obamacare’
The three Cuban American members of Congress from south Florida have made a deal with the devil to get rid of Obamacare in favor of a bill that the Congressional Budget Office has…
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Obama’s Cuba opening more popular in Florida than Trump’s new measures
President Trump visited Miami last week and committed to much of the same old nonsense that has been uttered time and again over the past almost 60 years. A poll conducted right after…
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Trump does Miami
The majority of Cubans in Miami no longer support a hardline policy toward Cuba, which is probably why Trump didn’t reinstate the whole Cuba package of the Bush years. But, as long as…
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