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Campaign chair plays down Donald Trump-Paul Ryan rift

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The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign (all times local): 7:55 a.m. Donald Trump‘s campaign chairman is playing down a rift between the Republican nominee and House Speaker Paul Ryan. Paul Manafort acknowledged “a conflict within the Trump campaign” after vice presidential candidate Mike Pence endorsed Ryan a day after Trump declined to do so. Manafort spoke on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Manafort the campaign has “sort of had a rule of not getting involved in primaries.” He said Ryan’s…

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Tim Kaine goes after Donald Trump as the ‘You’re fired’ president

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The Democrats’ vice presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, took on the role of campaign attack dog in Daytona Beach Tuesday labeling Donald Trump as the “You’re fired” president. In a 31-minute speech at Daytona State College, Kaine accused Trump of caring only about himself and said his economic plans would lead to economic ruin, while citing an economic report estimating his running mate, Hillary Clinton, could create 10 million new jobs. “America gets to choose between whether it wants a…

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Pinellas Safe Harbor is a model for Volusia homeless shelter — for good and bad

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Government leaders in Volusia County are looking to Pinellas County to answer some looming questions over how to deal with the homeless population. The Atlantic Coast county’s leaders are looking at Pinellas Safe Harbor for all its wins, but also its losses. Government officials are quickly finding that the model in Pinellas may not work for Volusia County. According to the Daytona Beach News Journal, the Volusia County Council has used Pinellas’s homeless shelter in an old wing of the…

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Hard Rock coming to Daytona Beach

Seminole Tribe of Florida-controlled Hard Rock International says it’s opening a fourth location in Florida later this year with the addition

Florida man wants to replace strip club with senior housing

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The owner of a Daytona Beach strip club wants to help clean up the neighborhood by replacing Club Topic with an apartment building for senior citizens. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports the plan is preliminary. But last week Will Bittorf removed the `For Lease’ sign outside the building where strippers once danced on a small stage. He says it only attracted people who wanted to open adult businesses. Bittorf says a 26-story 1,500-unit building would help spruce up East International Speedway…

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Hard Rock coming to Daytona Beach

Seminole Tribe of Florida-controlled Hard Rock International says it’s opening a fourth location in Florida later this year with the addition

Kendrick Meek to sponsor race car at Nascar’s Nationwide Series

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Candidate Kendrick Meek will be the lead sponsor of Mike Wallace’s #01 race car at the NASCAR Nationwide Series Race in Daytona Beach, Florida, on February 13, 2010. “I’m thrilled to sponsor the race car driven by Mike Wallace, a member of one of America’s top racing families. The NASCAR Nation experience is a family affair, and my family will be together on pit road cheering Mike onto victory in Daytona,” said Kendrick Meek. “NASCAR has deep roots in Florida,…

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Hard Rock coming to Daytona Beach

Seminole Tribe of Florida-controlled Hard Rock International says it’s opening a fourth location in Florida later this year with the addition

Kendrick Meek to sponsor race car at Nascar’s Nationwide Series

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Candidate Kendrick Meek will be the lead sponsor of Mike Wallace’s #01 race car at the NASCAR Nationwide Series Race in Daytona Beach, Florida, on February 13, 2010. “I’m thrilled to sponsor the race car driven by Mike Wallace, a member of one of America’s top racing families. The NASCAR Nation experience is a family affair, and my family will be together on pit road cheering Mike onto victory in Daytona,” said Kendrick Meek. “NASCAR has deep roots in Florida,…

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Hard Rock coming to Daytona Beach

Seminole Tribe of Florida-controlled Hard Rock International says it’s opening a fourth location in Florida later this year with the addition

Sunday’s editorial pages

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St. Petersburg Times – Poor Stewards Of Our Money: “As St. Petersburg Times staff writer Bill Varian details in today’s Perspective, many local governments went on a binge when times were good, expanding their budgets, giving generous raises, building new facilities and hiring to staff them. And now that times are bad, the choices and the cutbacks are far worse than they would have been had governments been more fiscally circumspect. In the boom times, government failed to plan for…

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