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As summer arrives, Bill Nelson calls for more funding for mosquito control

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As an afternoon storm blew through downtown Orlando, Florida Senator Bill Nelson addressed a group of reporters at his regional office Friday and called for more funding from the government to fight mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus that can come with such storms. The Zika virus has been spreading in a way Nelson and other worried officials call “a full-blown crisis.” And Congress, Nelson said, isn’t doing enough. He stated that they had been acting “irresponsibly” by not giving enough funding to…

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The long, hard road to voting rights continues for Floridian felons

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Desmond Meade, the president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, once stood by a set of train tracks, waiting for the train to come. He intended to step in front of the train when it came. It was only by virtue of the train not coming that day that he didn’t. Instead, he walked over the tracks to the other side and began his life again. Meade, a one-time drug addict and convict, graduated law school in 2014. In his…

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Carlos Beruff says his business history is why he would be good for Senate

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At a Thursday meeting of the NW Orange Republican Women Federated at the Errol Estate Golf & Country Club in Apopka, Senate hopeful Carlos Beruff outlined why he would be right for the job. Given only three minutes before the group, Beruff used them to speak about his upbringing and business acumen. His family immigrated from Cuba to the U.S. in 1957, Beruff said, after a failed attack on the presidential palace in Havana. “My mother was the only woman conspirator in that…

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Jeanette Rubio personally thanks volunteers in Orlando

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Volunteers for Marco Rubio‘s campaign have been working tirelessly at the 1001 N. Orange Avenue office they’ve been calling their headquarters in Orlando, making phone call after phone call promoting the Republican presidential hopeful. On Saturday, they got a reward for their hard work when Jeanette Rubio arrived to thank them personally for their work on her husband’s campaign. She visited with multiple tables full of volunteers, speaking to them personally and talking with them about what brought them out to the campaign.…

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