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Appeals Court Backs Gun-Rights Group In Broward Dispute. (WLRN/NSoF)
Latest example of state pre-emption being upheld by Florida courts. Broward County acted because the Florida legislator didn't act.If there is to be a ban on guns at airports, it requires state...
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Will We Struggle to Reach Herd Immunity? (NY Times)
NY Times: Close to 100% of St. Johns County, Florida senior citizens are vaccinated. Good work. (Figure might be inflated due to snowbird inoculations). We're blessed that between state, county and...
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Florida to feds: Allow cruise ships to operate or we’ll sue. (AP)
Threatening to sue on behalf of cruise lines, Governor RON DeSANTIS is whining again.Whining is what he does. Every. Single. Day.He's an empty suit.Our State of Florida is in no position to lecture...
View ArticleFlorida's Rush To Pass COVID-19 Liability Shield May Backfire.(Law360)
Florida Legislature onee again shows contempt for worker and consumer rights. In a State of Denial, where Reichwing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) writes our laws, in the words of former...
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COVID-19 liability protection bill set to become law (Jason Delgado, Florida...
Shameful effort succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of its cynical sponsors. Chamber of Commerce and other business lobbyists, hang your heads in shame. You've just defeated protections for patient...
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Snollygoster Alert: DeSantis-backed ‘anti-riot’ bill clears Florida House...
Misguided state legislators in several states are determined to emit as many possible racist dog whistles as possible during their 2021 annual meetings.On voting rights, President Joseph Robinette...
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DeSantis hires top GOP operative for 2022 campaign. (POLITICO)
Reading respected publications calling Florida Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS a 2024 Presidential candidates!As my Florida 6th Congressional District Congressman, DeSANTIS was a show horse, not a work...
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POISONED: Tampa lead smelter exposers workers to dangerous levels of...
My years of research convinces me that intentional non-enforcement of worker protection legislation kills workers. It also contaminates workers' newborn children with toxic substances -- carcinogens,...
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Rough waters in Key West as city, cruise industry and state lawmakers tangle...
Once again, louche Florida legislators and lobbyists work to undermine local residents rights.Here, Key West residents overwhelmingly approved three city charter amendments, The Florida legislatures...
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Feuds, fibs and finger-pointing: Trump officials say coronavirus response was...
Hundreds of thousands of Americans died preventable deaths. Hundreds of thousands more people suffered horrible painful deaths than would have resulted from common sense scientific government...
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How Florida left farmworkers out of its COVID-19 pandemic response. (Naples...
Several months ago, I publicly asked St. Johns County Commissioners and Administrator to plan to provide vaccinations for farm workers. No response yet. From Naples Daily News/GANNETT:How Florida left...
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Will A Known Neurotoxin Be Used on Florida Citrus? (WGCU)
Under Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, President Joe Biden and EPA Administrator Michael Stanley Regan, we must better protect cur Florida farmworkers, residents and consumers. Chemicals,...
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Opinion F.D.R. Took Down Giants. Biden Can, Too. Roosevelt’s choice to run...
Our global economy is run by oligopolists and monopolists. They are choking the life out of our notions of free markets and free speech. I look forward to President Obama's priorities for the...
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Matt Gaetz Is Said to Be Investigated Over Possible Sexual Relationship With...
Federal investigation of Florida U.S. Representative MATTHEW KOUIS GAETZ II for sex trafficking -- he was only legislator to vore against sex trafficking legislation. He may resign shortly, just as...
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"Confidential" Application for $23,380,125., 30-year tax holiday from St....
Southern states have been bribing industries since the 1940s to "create jobs."It is a "race to the bottom, " in Justice Brandeis' phrase. St. Johns County does not need to bribe industries to "create...
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Stinky Florida Statute 288.075, "Confidentiality of records," allows secrecy...
"Secrecy is for losers," as the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan said it best. Here's the full text of the creepy Florida Statute that suffers and permits secrecy for applicants for tax holidays,...
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Seraphins settle Global Wrap theft lawsuit after CANAN and CORNEAL lawn firms...
Two disgruntled former spouses, and (full disclosure, my former employers 2008-2012) JUDITH and ANTHONY SERAPHIN -- have settled their differences and dismissed their lawsuits. Mediation settled the...
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22 Bible Verses on Welcoming Immigrants (Sojourners)
For those misguided souls inveighing against immgration, here are your reading assignments for your edification on Good Friday, 2021.:22 Bible Verses on Welcoming ImmigrantsA child traveling with a...
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Supreme Court Hands Win to Georgia in State Water War (Bloomberg)
Another body blow to the State of Florida's maladroit state government, which. is apparently incapable of marshaling the scientific evidence to win a righteous case against the State of Georgia on...
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Breach at Piney Point prompts evacuation as threat of collapse ‘changing by...
Florida is a maladroit environmental regulator. Here's another preventable potential Florida disaster -- reminds me of preventable Tennessee Valleu Authority December 22, 2008 Kingston, Tenn. coal...
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