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An effort to stop administrative hearings underway over a Gretna race track’s ability to offer barrel racing failed on Tuesday, reports the News Service of Florida. Attorneys for the Florida Quarter Horse Track Association, which supports allowing barrel racing at a new Gretna-based race track, asked a Leon County Circuit Court Judge to issue a “stay” over administrative proceedings over a dispute involving two quarter horse groups. The Florida Quarter Horse Track Association has filed two lawsuits in Leon County…

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Rick Perry apparently doesn’t know the legal voting age is 18,

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David Royse of the News Service of Florida reports: On the day millions of holiday shoppers were being encouraged to hit up online retailers, Gov. Rick Scott acknowledged it isn’t fair that most people don’t pay Florida taxes on those purchases

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Thirty nine Florida counties, (58 percent) experienced statistically significant increases in poverty rates for school-aged children between 2007 and 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday as part of a national snapshot on economic well being that indicated that nearly one in five U.S. school children live below the poverty line via The News Service of Florida. Florida counties were more than twice as likely to see statistically significant increases for the period. Nationally, about 23 percent of counties experienced…

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Via Jed Lewison. Hat tip:

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