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Gov. Rick Scott releases names of 18 state board, judicial nominating appointments

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On Friday, Gov. Rick Scott released the names of 18 appointments, including four reappointments and ten individuals selected for a series of judicial nominating commissions. Northwest Florida Water Management District Scott began by announced three reappointments to the Northwest Florida Water Management District. John Alter, 78, of Malone, is a manager with Alter-Bevis Farms LLC. He currently serves as a member of the Florida Forestry Association Board of Directors and previously served as a member of the Jackson County Chamber…

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Win your pool: here’s some tips on how to fill your bracket

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President Barack Obama fills one out, so does just about everyone you know. Yes, the NCAA Tournament begins this week and that means it’s bracket-picking time. We’re here to help make sense of March Madness. We want to provide you some insight on the 68 teams that were slotted into four regional brackets for the annual sports spectacle that culminates in Indianapolis on April 7. However, be advised that most people win bracket contests by picking the better mascot or…

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Senate bill seeks additional federal Medicaid dollars for mental health and substance abuse programs

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The Senate has proposed a tandem of bills that, combined, would transform Florida’s mental health and substance abuse laws as well as increase the amount of federal Medicaid money used fund the programs. The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human services will discuss two bills — released late Friday — at its March 16 meeting. The proposed bills do not not have bill numbers because they are drafts. They are contained in the committee’s meeting package. The first bill,…

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The week ahead in Florida politics

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At the state Capitol this week the budget begins to take shape and Rep. Richard Corcoran increasingly becomes the man to watch. By the end of the week the Senate will have released its budget allocation and Corcoran and Sen. Tom Lee, the two chambers’ appropriation chairs, will move closer to center stage as a spending plan begins to take shape. The House released its allocations, the amount of money dedicated to each spending silo; education, health care, etc., last week. The document left…

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Conservative House Republican Dennis Baxley reverses his vote for gay adoption

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Although the vote by the Florida House of Representatives last week to repeal Florida’s 38-year ban on gay adoption was hardly overwhelming, there was little open dissent on the House floor, with only a handful of lawmakers even discussing the legislation before voting on it. Among those who did so movingly was Ocala Republican Dennis Baxley, one of the most socially conservative members of the Legislature. Baxley spent several minutes on the floor describing what he called “one of the…

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Peril, promise of Hillary Clinton candidacy both on display lately

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All the peril and promise of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s expected presidential campaign played out in high relief this past week. In one hour, really. There she was, in her element, enjoying a hero’s welcome at a U.N. conference on women. Cellphone cameras snapped away as she spoke with passion of women’s rights as the “great unfinished business of the 21st century.” And there she was, a half-hour later, in her own personal hell just down the hall, carefully fending off…

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Salvage continues at military helicopter crash site in Panhandle

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The largest sections of a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed during a nighttime training mission have been pulled from the waters off Florida’s Panhandle as salvage operations continue to recover the remains of all seven Marines and four soldiers who were killed. Eglin Air Force Base spokesman Andy Bourland says recovery operations were expected to finish late Saturday. The debris pulled from the Santa Rosa Sound off Navarre will be moved to the Air Force’s Hurlburt Field to be examined…

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