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The political group behind the Florida Medical Association is endorsing state Rep. Kathleen Peters in her bid for re-election to House District 69. FMA PAC today announced its support of the freshman Republican from South Pasadena, who faces Democratic attorney Scott Orsini in the race for the district covering areas including Madeira Beach, Treasure Island, Gulfport and St. Pete Beach. “Representative Kathleen Peters is a friend of medicine and we are proud to endorse her re-election efforts,” said FMA PAC…

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Charlie Crist’s political committee received another hefty check of $500,000 from the Democratic Governors Association. DGA donations to the former Republican governor now total $1.5 million. DGA also gave $1.1 million in total to the Florida Democratic Party, as well as $963,000 to the grassroots political Florida for All. This now makes the DGA’s Florida investment $3.6 million, spent to either boost Crist or oppose Rick Scott, known as one of the more vulnerable Republican governors in November. Most polls are…

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Three years after the Great Recession officially ended, consumer spending by Floridians had surpassed the pre-recession high, but Florida lagged slightly behind the rest of the nation in spending growth. State-level figures released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show that per capita consumer spending in 2012 grew 3.1 percent over the previous year in Florida. However, that was slightly weaker than the 3.3 percent growth in per capita consumer spending by the nation in 2012, the most…

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Florida Senate leaders continue to funnel cash into political committees in advance of the fall election cycle. “Florida Leadership Committee,” a group associated with Clearwater Republican Jack Latvala, chair of the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee and seeking election as Senate president in 2016, raised $64,700 between July 26 and Aug. 1, according to the most recent finance reports. Florida Leadership received $25,000 from Jacksonville-based health insurance giant Florida Blue. Reports show the Latvala committee took in $1,381,471 in total…

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As Rick Scott crisscrosses the state on his “Let’s Keep Florida Beautiful” tour, a new video from American Bridge 21st Century dogs the governor over his “sudden interest in environmental protection.” Scott is traversing the state in an effort to promote a plan to invest $500 million for alternative waters, $500 million for spring restoration projects and protection of the Florida Everglades. He is also calling to stop polluters by way of increased fines from the state’s Department of Environmental…

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A team of forensic researchers from the University of South Florida is scheduled to announce this afternoon significant findings from their DNA work on remains found at the now-shuttered Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida. The team, led by Dr. Erin Kimmerle, has spent more than a year unearthing dozens of unmarked graves on the grounds of the defunct reform school in Florida’s Panhandle. The team is trying to identify the human remains they found buried in…

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Today, 232 years ago, on August 7, 1782, President George Washington ordered the creation of the Badge of Military Merit, later to be renamed the Purple Heart, to honor soldiers wounded in battle. This is our nation’s oldest military decoration — and has been thought to represent the first time in modern history where such awards were presented to common soldiers rather than just to high-ranking officers. Washington himself designed the award in the form of a purple heart with…

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