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Chris Nocco files constitutional proposal for crime victim rights

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Pasco County Sheriff and Constitution Revision Commission (CRC) member Chris Nocco on Wednesday filed his proposed constitutional amendment to give equal rights to crime victims. The amendment, if placed on the 2018 statewide ballot and passed by 60 percent of voters, would create a Marsy’s Law for Florida, to “bring assurance that victims of crime and their families are provided with enforceable constitutional protections, the same level that is afforded to those accused and convicted – nothing more and nothing less,” Nocco said…

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Business, tech services provider announces 75 new Tampa jobs

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Florida’s governor says 75 new jobs with an annual salary of more than $50,000 are coming from a Texas-based business and technology services company.

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As Florida prepares for Irma, NOAA aircraft working nonstop

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Hurricane Irma may be days away from Florida, but national, state and local agencies are at work now to deal with the second weather threat to the nation in two weeks.

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Taxes to rise in Tampa, but by how much?

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The Tampa City Council is scheduled to vote on raising property taxes for the first time in almost three decades next week, but the size of that tax remains unknown less than a month before next year’s budget goes into effect.

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Joe Henderson: Hurricanes are tough, Floridians are tougher

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Floridians generally are a cocky bunch when it comes to hurricanes. A lot of people take the batteries-and-beer approach to these things: make sure you have plenty of both. Fill up the propane tank on the grill, fill the cooler with ice, and ride it out. Not this time.

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