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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. Today’s Rise and Shine Fact-iversary is brought to you by Sachs Media Group, the firm best known for smart, strong and strategic counsel across the diverse and ever-changing media landscape: With the women’s vote considered so important in Florida’s gubernatorial campaign, it’s hard to imagine that this demographic couldn’t always participate in elections. On this day in 1889, Wyoming became the first state to adopt a constitution giving women the right to…

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Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. Today’s Rise and Shine Fact-iversary is brought to you by Sachs Media Group, the firm best known for smart, strong and strategic counsel across the diverse and ever-changing media landscape: Thirty-two months after the tragic Challenger disaster in the early moments of its launch, America got back into space on this date in 1988 with the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. The five-man crew of the…

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In almost a decade in the political arena, Taylor Biehl has developed an impressive resume and skill set. He knows how to track voting trends. He can hold his own in a discussion of appropriations and taxation. And he tirelessly fights for issues whether they were on the behalf of state Sen. Mike Haridopolos, when he was Senate President, or for the Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association. He is now legislative programs director of Capitol Alliance Group. This year…

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Police say a St. Petersburg man accidentally backed over his 1-year-old daughter who apparently ran out behind him as he left his home. Spokeswoman Yolando Fernandez told the Tampa Bay Times that 22-year-old Kristian Brown apparently didn’t realize he’d struck the girl with his SUV Thursday evening and continued down the road a short distance before realizing something had happened. Kriziyah Brown was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say Brown was driving on a suspended driver’s license and was…

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If you had told Sara Clements a few years ago that she would be working in politics, she would have waved you off and gotten back to her lesson plans. Her lobbying efforts were directed at a bunch of middle-school students. Turns out working in a low-income school in Orange County was good training for trying to convince lawmakers to take the state’s education system in a new direction. Sara is not only a teacher, she’s the daughter of a…

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Yesterday, powerhouse Tallahassee lobbying firm Southern Strategy Group became the owner of the former Po Boys building in Tallahassee, with an extreme makeover in mind. The property is steeped in the political culture of Tallahassee, and it will be no less so in its next iteration as a mixed-use project with a restaurant (owned by a lobbyist), offices (for lobbyists), and a residential component (for, you guessed it, out-of-town lobbyists). Tallahassee regulars will remember this property as a building with…

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