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Fresh Gallup poll — Hillary Clinton: Best known, and still best liked

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According to a new poll (taken just as the controversy about her private email account was breaking), Hillary Clinton remains one of the few 2016 presidential candidates to have a significantly higher favorable (50 percent) than unfavorable (39 percent) rating among the American public. And 89 percent have enough knowledge of her to form an opinion, by far the most of any person who is contemplating a run for the White House next year. However, it should be noted that…

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Mitch Perry Report for 3.13.15 — Random thoughts

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Welcome to the hottest Friday the 13th in March in Tampa Bay history. If it’s Friday in Tallahassee, it’s vacation day. Although the regular session began just 10 days ago, lawmakers are apparently burned out, and require a three-day weekend. No hearings are scheduled today in the Capitol. Then again, the House of Representatives have been off all week. Such work ethic is what prompted David Jolly to propose a bill last year that would require Congress to meet from 8…

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Kristin Jacobs undeterred in effort to regulate ‘scourge’ of Kratom

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First there were bath salts, then K2 and now… there’s Kratom. Some Thai officials swear by it, the Drug Enforcement agency lists it as a “drug of concern” and the bipartisan duo of Crestview Republican state Sen. Greg Evers and Democratic state Rep. Kristin Jacobs of Coconut Creek are trying to outright ban it in Florida. With the first bill she has ever run, Jacobs is trying to make a complex policy change involving contested science, an embattled and slow-moving state law enforcement bureaucracy and opposition in her own party’s base —…

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Martin Dyckman: Will U.S. Supreme Court rule Florida’s death penalty unconstitutional?

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For 13 years, Florida’s death penalty process has been on thin ice at the U.S. Supreme Court. The Legislature has pretended not to notice even though the state Supreme Court sent an early warning. Now, the ice is cracking. On Monday, the high court agreed to consider whether Florida’s law conflicts with its 2002 opinion in Ring v. Arizona that the jury, not the judge, must determine the existence of aggravating factors to support a death penalty. Florida law leaves…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics – March 13

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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 speculation rampant about 2016, you’d think statewide officeholders would have the advantage. But Florida voters don’t often send familiar faces to the U.S. Senate – even from the highest state office. Consider that since the Civil War, only four men have served as both Florida governor and U.S. senator: Park Trammell, Spessard…

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House Democrat opposition to FRS reform is like apple pie

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State House Democrats say the push to change the pension system for government workers is based on flawed and unlikely assumptions. Speaker Steve Crisafulli wants to overhaul the Florida Retirement System. The goal is to move new workers out of the traditional defined-benefits plan to a 401(K) type defined-contribution plan that would be more portable for when workers leave government jobs. Reform efforts in the past stalled in the Senate where members note that with the ability to pay 86.6…

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Darren Soto says cities, counties pushing for fracking ban

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The Democratic sponsor of a Senate bill that would ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, said Thursday that local governments are creating a groundswell of support for the legislation. Fracking can involve using water, sand, and chemicals to force oil and gas from underground rock. Environmentalists have raised concerns that the process is a threat to drinking water, especially in Florida with its reliance on aquifers for its water supply. Hydraulic fracturing would be banned under SB 166, by state Sen. Darren…

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