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Council sees breakdown of trust with Office of Insurance Regulation

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Proposed reforms to Florida’s continuing care retirement community regulations ran into heavy flak Wednesday during an advisory council meeting, with the body’s president lamenting a breakdown of trust in the Office of Insurance Regulation. Joel Anderson, chairman of the Governor’s Continuing Care Advisory Council, complained that office staff unexpectedly unloaded a 61-page rewrite of the statute governing the facilities, also known as CCRCs. Anderson said he hoped the staff would not view his comments as overly “inflammatory,” saying the council has worked…

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Bank of America branch moving to old video store near University Village

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The Bank of America branch at downtown Bank of America Tower will close when a branch opens two blocks away by the end of the year, a spokesman said. The new branch at Publix shopping center University Village will fill the 5,000-square-foot spot once held by Hollywood Video. The bank will retain office space in the tower, said spokesman Don Vecchiarello. There’s no decision on whether the “Bank of America” name will stay on the building at 200 Central Ave.…

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If giving away public land (to limit citizens’ 1st Amendment rights) is the only way to save BayWalk, then let it fail!

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It was Aaron Sharockman who first made the point that if the owners of BayWalk had originally asked for the property where the sidewalk around the entertainment complex is, the city would have been more than happy to have given them the land. So what’s the big deal now? The big deal is that City Hall should not be in the business of giving away public land to private interests because those interests don’t like people exercising their 1st Amendment…

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