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Palm Beach County Commissioner has great advice for Rick Scott

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The Very Best Idea in Florida Right This Minute comes from Palm Beach County Commissioner Melissa McKinlay, who is asking Gov. Rick Scott to call Florida’s heroin epidemic by its right name: a public health crisis. This should be a no-brainer for Scott. With heroin-related hospital bills running at close to a billion a year in Florida, a governor who made millions as a hospital executive and reportedly aspires to higher office should take the state’s opioid addiction problem at…

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Cox Newspapers’ founder spins in his grave as lights go out at The Palm Beach Post

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Florida’s Ministries of Disinformation got an early Christmas present from Santa in Atlanta when Cox Newspapers pulled the plug on the Tallahassee Bureau of The Palm Beach Post and laid off its lone remaining ranger, veteran newsman John Kennedy. The Cox media empire was born in Dayton, Ohio in an era when men with political ambitions could make a fortune and make their way to the Governor’s Mansion from a basecamp in the news business. In 1920, Gov. James M.…

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On Election Day, let’s talk baseball …

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Grumpy and possibly jealous old men — some with newspaper columns — disapproved of Saturday’s comedy debut of Anthony Rizzo, Dexter Fowler, and Tallahassee homeboy David Ross. Fresh off their World Series win, the trio swung by Saturday Night Live to sing “Go Cubs Go” with superfan and trained professional comedian Bill Murray, and to bump and grind with Benedict Cumberbatch in a tasteless-by-design sketch starring cast member Aidy Bryant, a gifted practitioner of physical comedy who makes anyone who shares her stage look terrific. The Chicago Tribune’s Phil Rosenthal dissed the…

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Kendrick Meek campaign anticipates ‘lies and misstatements’ from Jeff Greene during debate

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Their debate isn’t for another 90 minutes, but U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek took the first shot with a preemptive memo outlining “Jeff Greene’s lies” during an editorial board meeting with The Palm Beach Post last week. The debate between the two is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. It will be broadcast PalmBeachPost.com. Read the entire press release here.

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Dems hope Tuesday debate moves their candidates up in name recognition race

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Can Florida Democrats recapture the U.S. Senate seat once held by Bob Graham? Or is the primary race between Jeff Greene and Kendrick Meek merely a battle for third place in the general election? Polls show both Democrats trailing a pair of candidates who so far have commanded the media spotlight: Republican Marco Rubio, a darling of the conservative tea party movement, and Republican-turned-independent Gov. Charlie Crist. But voters will have the chance to size up Meek and Greene at…

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As clock ticks, Democrat Tim Mahoney still ‘considering’ run for old congressional seat

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The Palm Beach Post is reporting: With Friday’s noon deadline approaching for federal candidates to qualify for the 2010 ballot, former Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney — booted from office after a 2008 sex scandal — says he’s still pondering a run for his old seat against freshman U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Tequesta. Rooney beat Mahoney in 2008 after Mahoney admitted to “multiple” extramarital affairs, including one with a woman who had been on his campaign and congressional payrolls. Mahoney,…

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FEA launches new TV ad thanking Charlie Crist; poll shows nearly 80% of Florida voters aware of veto of SB6

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The Florida Education Association is airing a new TV ad praising Charlie Crist for vetoing Senate Bill 6 last week. The Palm Beach Post was leaked part of a recent poll from Hamilton Campaigns that asked 700 likely Florida voters these questions: How much have you seen, read or heard about Governor Charlie Crist vetoing Senate Bill 6, the education reform bill recently passed by the state legislature– a lot, just some, not too much or nothing at all? A lot… 52 percent Some…

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