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Child sexual abuse costs Florida an estimated $1 billion a year

Published on March 11, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Peter Schorsch

A billion dollars! Really? I have to admit that when I first saw the release from LaurensKids.org, I was a little skeptical. Despite the fact that I love the work Lauren Book is doing on behalf of kids and the very real fact that her work has earned national ink, the actual number itself – (cue your best Dr. Evil) “ONE BILLION DOLLARS” – jumped off the page. We all know how these kinds of reports can pile on the numbers and if…

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Bills to alter tobacco settlements referred to committees

Published on March 11, 2015 in Top Headlines by Ryan Ray

A smoldering battle in the Florida Legislature affecting the manner in which four major tobacco firms will have to pay up more than 4,000 claimants has taken an early step toward its climax: bills by state Sen. Garrett Richter and state Rep. David Santiago have escaped the session slush pile and been referred to committees in both chambers. The proposal’s original version, Richter’s SB 978, will face just two committee stops: Judiciary and Rules. The House companion sponsored by Santiago will also forgo the…

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Fate is postponed for St. Pete’s crime-laden New Plaza motel

Published on March 11, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

After more than five hours of discussion there is still no decision on what will happen to the New Plaza motel on the 400 block of 34 Street North. Owners of that motel and the bar attached to it are in hot water with the city after multiple service calls to the police originated from New Plaza and Cactus Charlie’s bar. The city’s nuisance abatement board heard testimony from the city during a quasi-judicial hearing arguing that owners of the…

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Personnel note: Former Rick Scott admin staffer Marlene Williams to lead GM’s Florida lobbying efforts

Published on March 11, 2015 in Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

A former legislative affairs director in the Rick Scott administration is heading to General Motors to head the automobile giant’s lobbying efforts in Florida. Marlene Williams, 28, will be the new southeast regional manager of state government relations, effective March 16. Williams’s role will be to direct state legislative issues affecting GM in the Southeast Region. Based in Tallahassee, Williams will also be responsible for GM’s state government lobbying in Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina. “Marlene’s experience dealing with key state policy issues in the…

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Bob Buckhorn PAC builds war chest

Published on March 11, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

One Florida Political Action Committee, the political committee formed by friends of Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, has now raised over $60,000 since being created in December. The PAC raised $43,875.15 in February, by far its most prolific month in its short infancy. Nearly a quarter of that amount, or $10,000, came via a contribution from LSI Management Co., also known as Laser Spine Institute on Rocky Point. $5,000 came from Alliant Partners, a Tampa architecture firm, and there were two $2,500 contributions: one…

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The Day That Was in Florida Politics — March 11

Published on March 11, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by James Call

OK folks, get your notecards ready because it’s going to start getting complicated quickly. When people say politics is all about the money they are right. The only reason the state Capitol represents a village during the 60-day annual legislative session is because billions of dollars are at stake – everyone wants a piece of the pie and the bakers are in the kitchen firing up the oven. Two big issues are starting to roll. What they are depends on…

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Florence Snyder: In loving remembrance of Gus Harwell

Published on March 11, 2015 in Apolitical/Top Headlines by Florence Snyder

By the time reporters like the Miami Herald‘s Mike Sallah and Carol Marbin Miller and Kimberly Miller of The Palm Beach Post took starter jobs at the Boca Raton News, 1960s-era Publisher Gus Harwell was long-gone to bigger jobs at Knight Newspapers. But his legacy as a reporter’s publisher continued to attract top young talent for years after he moved on to the Tallahassee Democrat and a corporate vice-presidency before retiring in 1995. Harwell, who died last Friday in Port…

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Top Headlines - page 2821

Child sexual abuse costs Florida an estimated $1 billion a year

Bills to alter tobacco settlements referred to committees

Fate is postponed for St. Pete’s crime-laden New Plaza motel

Personnel note: Former Rick Scott admin staffer Marlene Williams to lead GM’s Florida lobbying efforts

Bob Buckhorn PAC builds war chest

The Day That Was in Florida Politics — March 11

Florence Snyder: In loving remembrance of Gus Harwell

Top Headlines - page 2821

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