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7 hrs ago | Boca Raton News

Divorce Florida Style

Q: What are ``Child Support Guidelines'' for Florida residents? How do they work? Does it matter how much people make, whether or no both parents are working? I read in your recent column, that a court has to consider the wife as working, even if she does not.

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15 hrs ago | Business Wire

Fitch Revises Outlook on Florida Environmental Protection Revs to Stable from Negative; Affirms Rtg

Fitch Ratings has revised the Rating Outlook on approximately $2.6 billion outstanding Florida Department of Environmental Protection Preservation 2000 and Florida Forever revenue bonds and $200 million outstanding Florida Everglades bonds to Stable from Negative.

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23 hrs ago | Pensacola News Journal

Sink leads in fundraising

Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, the Democratic frontrunner for governor, leads her Republican rival, Attorney General Bill McCollum, in the ever important money race.

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Yesterday | Bradenton Herald

Rubio says he will win Senate race on ideas

Former House Speaker Marco Rubio is making a big prediction in his Senate race: If voters listen to ideas instead of casting their ballots based on television commercials, he will beat Gov.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Kendrick Meek, Democrat, Florida

Fri Jul 10, 2009

VDARE.com

Amnesty: Our Betters Are Back At It

The Washington Post reports: A bipartisan task force will recommend today that the United States overhaul its immigration system in response to national security concerns, saying that the country should end strict quotas on work-based immigrant visas to maintain its scientific, technological and military edge.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Florida, US News, US Politics, George Bush

The Times - Apalachicola & Carrabelle

Water management districts commit to transparency

On June 30, Governor Charlie Crist signed Senate Bill 2080, relating to water resources, into law.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Charlie Crist, Florida

Florida Today

Fla. warden demoted in stun gun incident

The Florida Department of Corrections has demoted a warden who headed a prison where children were shocked with stun guns during an event.

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Washington Post - The Fix

Crist's Bombshell

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's fundraising take makes him clear frontrunner in Senate race.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Charlie Crist, Florida

Thu Jul 09, 2009

Pushing Rope

Jeb Bush's Conspiracy Theory

Former Gov. Jeb Bush said Barack Obama would not have gotten elected if he told the American public about his secret plan.

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Related Topix: Jeb Bush, Florida, Life, Hobbies, Conspiracy Theory, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

St. Augustine Record

Citizens board OKs 10 percent increase

Roughly one million customers of the Citizens Property Insurance Corp. will see a 10 percent increase on their premiums on Jan.

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Related Topix: Florida

WMBB

State Leaders Push for High Speed Rail

Florida is moving ahead with its goal of landing federal stimulus money to help build a high speed rail line from Tampa to Orlando and eventually Miami.

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St. Petersburg Times

Crist's personal finances remain modest, report says

Gov. Charlie Crist's personal bottom line barely budged in 2008, a year in which he remarried and maintained his status as the least affluent statewide officeholder in Florida.

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Related Topix: Charlie Crist, US Governors, Florida, Tax

Wed Jul 08, 2009

The Washington Monthly

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JEB SEES THROUGH THE 'SECRET PLAN'.... Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush , not surprisingly, isn't impressed with President Obama.

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Related Topix: Florida, Jeb Bush, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

Pensacola News Journal

Citizens rates capped at 10 percent

TALLAHASSEE -- Citizens Property Insurance policyholders in January will see rate changes limited at 10 percent, a move that will cost consumers $141 million and bring that much more in for the state-run company.

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Marco Eagle

Water managers revamp permit process

The 4-3 decision by the South Florida Water Management District governing board was marked by extended debate over how much delegation of authority the state Legislature intended to allow when it passed a bill this spring.

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WTLV

Police Say Father Asked Son to Help Dispose Body

Police say a man charged with killing a prostitute in central Florida and then dumping her body asked his fifth-grade son to help dispose the body.

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Related Topix: Florida

Tue Jul 07, 2009

WMBB-TV Panama City

Results in for DOC Drug Testing

The Florida Department of Corrections is wrapping up the first phase of a sweeping, three-year drug testing program for employees and the results indicate the agency is overwhelmingly clean.

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Related Topix: Drug Testing, Florida, Drugs

WPEC-TV West Palm Beach

Children Shocked: Fla. officials finish stun gun incident report

Florida officials have finished investigations into how more than 40 children ages 5 to 17 were shocked with stun guns during demonstrations at three Florida prisons.

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Related Topix: Florida

MyFoxTampaBay

Stimulus dollars: Florida dead last

Even with soaring unemployment and record foreclosures, Florida ranks dead last in securing federal stimulus dollars.

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Related Topix: Florida, Wyoming Government, Wyoming

WTLV

Florida Keys Could Be Lost To Rising Seas ?

Treasure salvors searching for an 18th-century wreck in the Florida Straits a few years ago made a fascinating but little noticed discovery.

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Related Topix: Florida, Key West, FL, Big Pine Key, FL, Florida International University, Monroe County, FL

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