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Mike Fasano-led charity drive nets $9K for New Port Richey therapy ranch

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Pasco County residents raised more than $9,000 for a New Port Richey ranch as part of a charity drive set up by Tax Collector Mike Fasano. “Kiddy Up Ranch would like to thank our wonderful tax collector’s staff and the people of our community for their fundraising efforts,” said Kiddy Up Ranch founder Tammy Harting. “We are so blessed to serve such a wonderful community.” The ranch provides “equine therapy,” a program that helps children and veterans with disabilities overcome…

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Failing grade? Trial over Florida’s schools finally starts

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A potentially far-reaching trial that will determine whether the Florida Legislature is shortchanging public schools is starting in a Tallahassee courtroom. In the lawsuit filed six years ago, education groups and parents from Duval and Pasco counties contend the Legislature and state officials have not provided enough money to the state’s schools as required under a constitutional amendment passed in 1998. They cite the academic performance of minorities and students from poor families as proof that the state is failing…

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3 Florida Cabinet members among big-name pols endorsing Wilton Simpson in SD 10

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In a show of force behind Sen. Wilton Simpson‘s bid for the newly redrawn SD 10, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam, and CFO Jeff Atwater all came out with endorsements of Simpson on Wednesday. “We need Wilton Simpson back in the State Senate, and that is why I am enthusiastically endorsing his 2016 re-election campaign,” said Bondi. “Wilton Simpson is a true leader, and I am proud to support him,” was how Putnam put it. “I am pleased to endorse Wilton…

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Report: Tampa Police write more tickets than other agencies

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An analysis by The Tampa Bay Times showed that Tampa police wrote more tickets last year than sheriff’s offices in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties combined and more per capita than cops in Jacksonville, Miami, St. Petersburg and Orlando, the state’s four other largest cities. And no other law enforcement agency in the state arrests more people than the Tampa Police Department. The paper reported that each arrest, each ticket, feeds into a formula that calculates an officer’s “productivity ratio”…

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Jack Latvala blasts proposed Senate maps in committee testimony

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After his testimony in front of the Senate panel on redistricting Friday, a lot of Alachua, Pasco, Sarasota and Volusia voters probably wish Clearwater Republican Jack Latvala was their senator, too. Latvala doesn’t sit on the Senate Reapportionment Committee and instead had to sign up to speak during the panel’s public comment time. During his nine minutes in front of the microphone, the senator from Pinellas County offered a stern rebuke of the map — all while committee chair Bill Galvano stared ahead with…

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