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A love-hate tale: Obamacare in Florida
Just how out of touch are Florida's Republican legislators with the needs of the people of the state?
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Gov. Rick Scott shifts again on Medicaid expansion
PolitiFact Florida decided to put Scott’s position on expanding Medicaid on our Flip-O-Meter, to document whether he has changed position. Let’s follow Scott’s path over the past few…
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Marco Rubio is Jeb Bush’s mini-me
The Republican golden boy will officially announce his run for president in 2016. He wants to make everybody believe he's fit to be commander in chief.
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Menendez and Melgen’s indictment likely to shake up the political elite in the Dominican…
Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption allegations, part of which has to do with business interests in the Dominican Republic, may soon make waves strong enough to reach the island’s political…
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Raul Yzaguirre, NCLR and the Menéndez investigation
I don’t believe in coincidences. Ambassador Yzaguirre, practically named by Menéndez, arrives in Santo Domingo months before the Melgen port deal, and departs his post three months…
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Robert Menendez indictment points to corrupting potential of super PACs
It seemed like a typical corruption case: A Florida doctor, seeking official favors with a United States senator, plies him with gifts while raising all the money he can for the…
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Adoption agencies could gain right to deny gay parents on religious grounds
Just three weeks after the Florida House overturned a ban on adoptions by gay parents, a panel in the same chamber Thursday advanced language allowing adoption and foster care agencies…
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Mom of epileptic son caught in Charlotte’s Web medical marijuana bureaucracy
Just as 13-year-old Branden Petro flops into the passenger seat of his mom's car, his eyes roll back. His face twitches uncontrollably. He curls into a fetal position.
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Taking a page from the David Rivera Tallahassee playbook
Our Cuban-American politicians don’t care about those persons who will never vote for, or against, them. That’s why they pander to those who still dream of 1958 in Havana. These same…
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Bill Day’s latest: Charlotte’s Web and the political snake pit
The Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act, signed by Gov. Rick Scott last June, calls for the creation of a state framework to provide medically needy patients with a strain of marijuana –…
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