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A 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:When folks in neighboring states talk about the “Old South” they’ve got nothing on Florida, where today St. Augustine celebrates its 449th birthday! On this date in 1565, Spanish Admiral Pedro Menendez de Aviles established the first permanent European settlement in the New World,…

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Ready for me to make a mountain out of a molehill? Reading St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman’s public schedule for the week ahead, I noticed that he is scheduled to attend a ribbon-cutting at the Chick-Fil-A on Fourth Street North. It’s surprising to some to see Kriseman, an avowed progressive Democrat, promoting a business which is anathema by many liberals. In 2012, Chick-Fil-A was embroiled in controversy due to the company’s funding of extreme fundamentalist organizations and its anti-gay public positions.…

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Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick will join Charlie Crist in South Florida on Monday for a series of campaign events focusing on education. Patrick will be with the former governor and current Democratic nominee as they tour West Palm Beach, Broward and Miami for what the Crist campaign calls a series of roundtable discussion and field events. Crist and Patrick will start off the day with a discussion on the importance of education with a group of teachers and parents beginning…

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It’s been a while since I wrote a “5 things …” column, but this past week has been a particularly hathotic one for me when it comes to the Times. From the trivial to the substantial, it was truly a very bad week for the newspaper. First up was the news that the newspaper’s abandonment of the naming rights to the former Tampa Bay Times Forum is the clearest signal yet of the Times’ continuing financial problems. “I assume the only reason you…

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The new school year began with a trip to jail for a Florida 14-year-old whose his mother called police to report that he was refusing to go to class. The mother of the Murray Middle School student told a St. Johns County Sheriff’s deputy that she already had taken away her son’s cellphone, laptop and Internet access, but the teenager still refused to go to school Tuesday morning, according to an arrest report. The boy told Deputy Kenneth Carver that…

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With thousands of hungry families statewide, the state of Florida is employing the latest high-tech gadgets, including web-based mapping, in an effort to combat “food deserts” throughout the Sunshine State. Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam unveiled the “Florida Roadmap to Living Healthy” program at the second annual Florida Hunger-Relief Forum in Bradenton. Hosted by The Mosaic Company, the phosphate fertilizer mining and manufacturing company based in Polk County, Thursday’s event at the Renaissance on 9th featured policymakers and…

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Republican State Representative Holly Raschein and Jesse Panuccio, Director of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, are two of nine Floridians included on the second annual “Maverick PAC Future 40″ list. “Maverick PAC’s mission is to engage the next generation of leaders in business and politics,” said Maverick PAC National Chair Jay Zeidman. “The Future 40 is our opportunity to recognize individuals who have demonstrated that they are that next wave of leadership in the public and private sector.” Floridians named…

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