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Rick Scottā€™s $83.5 billion state budget goes heavy on tax holidays

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Gov. Rick Scott proposed an $83.5 billion state budget Tuesday that would include $618 million in tax cuts, $85 million in economic incentives, nearly $4 billion for environmental protection, and more than $5.1 billion for public safety. Florida has added more than 1.2 million jobs during his tenure ā€œbecause of our continued focus on cutting taxes, reducing burdensome regulations and fostering an environment where job creators can grow and succeed,ā€ Scott said in unveiling his spending priorities in Tallahassee. ā€œBecause…

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House joins Joe Negron’s higher ed program

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The House is now on board with Senate President Joe Negron‘s higher education priorities. On Friday, state Rep. Bryan Avila filed companion bills (HB 3, HB 5) to Senate measures (SB 2, SB 4) filed by Bill Galvano. The bills touch on modifying performance-based incentives, boost funding to hire and keep top faculty, and create additional scholarship programs. The Stuart RepublicanĀ hadĀ championed higher education in his December 2015 acceptance speech of the chamber’s presidency. A few months later, Negron began a…

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USF St. Pete ranks in Top 25, US News & World Report Says

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USF St. PetersburgĀ is once again among the Top 25 Southern regional public universities, according to new rankings just released by U.S. News & World Report. In its “2017 Best Colleges Rankings,” USFSP landed at No. 24. Criteria for the rankings include graduation and first-year student retention rates, undergraduate academic reputation, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources, alumni giving, and graduation rate performance. The most heavily weighted measures are graduation and retention rates, and academic reputation. USFSP is ranked at No.…

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Donald Trump signed improper charity check supporting Pam Bondi

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Donald Trump‘s signature, an unmistakable if nearly illegible series of bold vertical flourishes, was scrawled on the improper $25,000 check sent from his personal foundation to a political committee supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. Charities are barred from engaging in political activities, and the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign has contended for weeks that the 2013 check from the Donald J. Trump Foundation was mistakenly issued following a series of clerical errors. Trump had intended to use personal funds to…

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Jack Latvala to be first inductee into Legislative Hall of Fame at Pasco-Hernando State College

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State SenatorĀ Jack Latvala will be the first legislator to be inducted into Pasco-Hernando State Collegeā€™s Legislative Hall of Fame. Latvala will be honored at a brief ceremony at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Alric C.T. Pottberg Library at the Collegeā€™s West Campus, 10230 Ridge Road, New Port Richey. Morris Porton, chair of the PHSC District Board of Trustees, will officiate over the ceremony, which will include the unveiling of a plaque that will be displayed in perpetuity in the Legislative…

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College-educated whites put hole in Donald Trump coalition

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Wanda Melton has voted for every Republican presidential nominee since Ronald Reagan in 1980, but now the Georgia grandmother plans to cross over to support Democrat Hillary Clinton. “I’m not a real fan of Hillary,” Melton says from her office in Atlanta. “But I think it would just be awful to have Donald Trump.” She adds: “I cannot in good conscience let that happen.” Melton is among a particular group of voters, whites with college degrees, who are resistant to…

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If football coaches ran higher education: trust, mentoring, ‘Chomp! Chomp!’

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If Florida’s topĀ college football coaches actually ran Florida’sĀ universities, life mentoring would begin the moment a student arrivedĀ and not end for years after he left. As that student makes his way from high school to finding his place in college, someone Ā would be there to help. As that student strives to understand what might be important in life, someone would be there toĀ help. And as that graduate finds himself, perhaps years down the road, struggling to find his way in the…

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