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So much for that debate between Guido Maniscalco & Jackie Toledo

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s For those of you poised to sit back and watch Jackie Toledo and Guido Maniscalco battle it out for the first and only time in a debate five days before the District 6 Tampa City Council runoff election, you’re out of luck. There will be no debate tonight, after the League of Women Voters and Jackie Toledo backed out earlier this week. The issue is the neutrality of the moderator, Mario Nunez, the host of The Tampa Natives Show,…

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Get ready for the return of TallyMadness!

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A potential multibillion-dollar state budget gap. A controversial effort to expand Medicaid. How to implement Amendment 1. These are but three of the dozens of earth-shattering important issues being debated during the 2015 legislation session. Who cares? The legislative session is also about the the tangential and the trivial, but it’s the tangential and trivial that drives the state capital. That’s why SaintPetersblog.com is excited to announce the return of TallyMadness — an online voting competition to determine who is the “best” lobbyist in Florida. Just like…

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Blake Dowling: Looking back …

Legislative Session is winding down – gaming, dope, infrastructure, assistive tech. It has been an exciting journey, with losers and

Mitch Perry Report for 3.19.15 — Rick Scott for Senate?

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Adam Smith in the Times has an exclusive today that Rick Scott is “eyeing” a run for the U.S. Senate — in 2016. Rumors surfaced earlier this year after Scott began spending money on TV ads — I mean, why does the just re-elected governor need to keep on campaigning? Well, certainly Scott apparently has money to burn to try to burnish his image, already damaged slightly after “Baileygate.” But the early scuttlebutt was maybe Scott was considering a run in 2016…

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Ex-DCF investigator charged with faking notes in tot death

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A former child abuse investigator surrendered Wednesday on charges that she falsified a substance abuse screening for a mother who authorities say was drinking months later when she left her 11-month-old baby to die in a hot car. Shani Smith, 35, was supposed to determine in her 2012 investigation whether Catalina Bruno’s children were safe to remain in her care and whether Bruno needed drug or alcohol treatment after the mother was charged with drinking and driving. Bruno was accused…

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Yellow cabs now outnumbered by Uber cars on NYC streets

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New York City’s storied yellow cabs are taking a back seat to black cars. Uber cars, often black sedans that can be summoned with smartphone apps, now outnumber the yellow taxis that city riders have hailed with a whistle and a wave for generations. It was a changing-of-the-guard moment that passed with little fanfare this week in figures released by the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission: 14,088 registered Uber cars compared with 13,587 yellow cabs. But it hardly means yellow…

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Patrick Murphy and Kobayashi Maru

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In what has to be one of the best opening sequences of any Star Trek episode or movie, James T. Kirk somehow manages to win the unwinnable test. For those of you who consider such sci-fi schlock beneath your station, the Kobayashi Maru is a no-win training exercise which tests the character of the new cadet, while being disguised as a mock battle scene — one which cannot be won. Kirk somehow manages to win the unwinnable test. How did he do…

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Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — March 19

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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: With the turn of a shovel on this date in 1967, ground was broken on what would become the nation’s second-largest university: the University of Central Florida. The Orlando school – originally Florida Technological University – is #2 in the nation in single-campus enrollment, a distinction it has held since 2010. UCF commencement speakers have…

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