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Mitch Perry Report for 3.24.15 — Election season ends in Tampa tonight

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The city of Tampa’s uneventful election season comes to a halt tonight. By 8 p.m. we should have a winner in the only City Council race that remains undecided — the District 6 battle between Guido Maniscalco and Jackie Toledo. I hate the overuse of the term “Seinfeld” to describe something as being about nothing. So I’ll refrain from calling this a “Seinfeld election season,” but really, what have been the big issues in the city that have been discussed…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — March 24

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. Today’s SachsFact is brought to you by the public affairs, integrated marketing and reputation management experts at Sachs Media Group: This week marks 450 years since the event that led directly to the founding of the nation’s oldest permanently occupied European settlement: St. Augustine. Many Florida schoolchildren know that Spanish admiral and explorer Pedro Menéndez de Avilés came ashore in September 1565. But it was six months earlier, on March 20, that Avilés secured…

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DEO files first challenge to a local government land-use change

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The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity has filed what is the first challenge to a local comprehensive plan amendment since sweeping growth management law changes passed in 2011. Legal watchers on both sides of the growth management issue — development and environmental — say the DEO move against the City of Mascotte in Lake County is significant. Business groups and local governments in 2011 supported the growth law changes that sharply reduced state oversight of local development decisions. Environmental groups said…

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House bill lays out site-selection process for new veterans’ nursing homes

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As the likelihood of additional veterans nursing homes increases the House of Representatives wants to put into law a selection process that the Florida Department of Veterans Affairs must follow. The House Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee on Tuesday takes up HB 7045. The bill follows controversy surrounding the selection of St. Lucie County for the development and construction of the state’s seventh nursing home. Specifically, the bill requires the Florida Department of Veterans Affairs to contract for a study that ranks…

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Orlando City Soccer Club gets specialty license plate under proposed Senate bill

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There could be some purple and gold license plates in the greater Orlando area under a bill being proposed by the Florida Senate. Proposed committee bill 7072 authorizes 12 new specialty plates, including one for Orlando City Soccer Club, the state’s first Major League Soccer team. The plates would cost an additional $25 and the bill directs how that money should be spent. The proposed bill also eliminates from statutes speciaity plates previously authorized, including plates for Correction Foundation —…

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Finale of ‘Glee’ foreshadows Jeb Bush presidency

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The FOX musical comedy-drama “Glee” dabbled in politics here and there, but never broke the fourth wall as directly than when it foretold an upcoming Jeb Bush presidency in its finale on Friday. In the show’s 121st and final episode events flash forward five years, finding Sue Sylvester (portrayed deftly by Jane Lynch across the show’s six-season run) as the vice president in a third Bush administration. Vice President Sylvester leads a ceremony in an auditorium at the fictional McKinley High School auditorium,…

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WTSP: Probation officers outline ‘dangerous’ staffing crisis at DOC

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Staff problems in Florida prisons are bad, but parole officers might have it even worse. Although Florida state prisons have received a lot of attention lately, slashed budgets in the Department of Corrections probation and parole divisions have a potential to cause bigger problems. WTSP/10 Investigates is reporting on a months-long study that found probation and parole officers with many DOC community corrections programs are inadequately prepared to provide court-ordered supervision. While other agencies monitor Florida’s misdemeanor probations, the DOC…

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