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Mitch Perry Report for 4.14.15 — All Marco, all the time

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Greetings once again from the 305 area code. A random thought today — I went running along Doral Blvd. in the Miami Springs/Virginia Gardens area earlier this morning, when I came across a correctional institution. When I ran across it again on the way back, I noticed all of the concertina wire placed atop the roofs of the various buildings in the facility. It sort of blew me away. Just the starkness of — you ain’t getting out of here,…

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Miami’s Freedom Tower under water by 2060? Unlikely, scientist says

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Could the Freedom Tower in Miami, where U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio on Monday announced his bid for president, be underwater by 2060? Before Rubio announced on Monday that he was running for president in 2016, NextGen Climate suggested the building could be underwater by 2060. The political action committee said Florida is on the front line of climate change and called on the Republican senator from Miami to take a stronger stance on climate change. “Florida’s rising sea levels jeopardize the…

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NextGen Climate says it’s time for Marco Rubio to step up on climate change

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Marco Rubio wasn’t always a skeptic about global warming, but he certainly has been during his time in the U.S. Senate. “I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,” the Florida Republican told ABC News last May. As he prepares to announce his candidacy for president later today, the environmental activist group NextGen Climate is calling Rubio out on his stance, telling him to start showing some leadership…

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Mitch Perry Report for 3.11.15 — Film incentives bill takes first step in Tally

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Like it or not, Hollywood productions, like sports owners, have been able to play cities and states against each other for years to get the best deal for themselves. Folks in Tampa Bay are all too familiar with getting burned by giving welfare to rich folks. You don’t have to have lived in the area to know how searing the 1996 CIT was. That was the tax that went to fund schools, cultural amenities like Lowry Park Zoo and the…

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NextGen Climate brings Rick Scott’s gag order on climate change to the GOP presidential race

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A report published over the weekend says that under Rick Scott, officials with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection have been banned from using the terms “global warming,” and “climate change.” The story has received massive media attention in the past 48 hours. Never one to let bypass an opportunity, NextGen Climate is seizing on the apparent censoring to ask fellow Florida Republicans (and potential presidential candidates) Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio to respond to the report, and put them on the spot as to…

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