Florida Government News, Information & Trends


Supporting Bad Habits With Public Money
New York Times (blog)
By CASEY B. MULLIGAN Florida and a few other states are considering additional restrictions on food stamp and welfare payments to the poor, such as prohibiting the purchases of snacks and sweets with food stamps and prohibiting withdrawals of welfare ...

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Public Censure and $5000 Fine Sought Against Ex-Juvenile Justice Secretary ...
FlaglerLive.com
3 in closed session, the Florida Commission on Ethics took action on thirty-two complaints, Chairman Robert Sniffen announced today. A full round-up follows: The Commission adopted, on a 4-3 vote, the Recommended Order of an Administrative Law Judge in ...

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Sun-Sentinel

Tweets, postings trigger public records rules for officials
Sun-Sentinel
By Andy Reid, Sun Sentinel Every time local-government officials in Florida use social media in their public position they are creating a public record, something they're required to keep and produce upon request. More Broward and Palm Beach county ...

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On the agenda this week in Florida government
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
16, 2011 at the YMCA in Venice, Fl. The school promotes a healthy lifestyle and physical fitness in a learning environment. The Senate Education Pre-K -12 Committee takes up a massive charter school bill that allows state colleges that offer approved ...

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Natural Gas Fueling Station Project in Florida's Capital Is National Model ...
MarketWatch (press release)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Feb 07, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Construction kicked off in Florida's capital city today on the first of a network of natural gas fueling stations that will allow schools, governments, businesses and the general public to transition ...

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CBS Local

Florida Senate aims to restore school funding, but with social programs pared
Palm Beach Post
Winning numbers More than 300 men and women with ties to Florida have given their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. By John Kennedy TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Senate took steps Tuesday to reverse last year's $1.3 billion cut in public school funding, ...
Ethics shortage in Florida SenateTampabay.com
Florida Morning: Murky future for prison privatization; Senate budget taking shapeFlorida Times-Union (blog)

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Florida editorial roundup
NECN
When you accept government money, it often comes with strings attached. If two Florida lawmakers have her way, those strings could lead all the way to certain supermarket aisles. Rep. Scott Plakon, R-Longwood and Sen. Ronda Storms, R-Valrico, ...

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Dwight Bullard: 'Public service' is a Life's Mission
Famuan
For Florida A&M University alumnus Dwight Bullard, this was the best advice he could've ever taken. "Public service is what I have been brought up around and enjoy doing," said Bullard, "The opportunity to go back to and protect the interest of the ...




Ex-South Florida politician to plead guilty to tax charges in federal ...
MiamiHerald.com
The corruption investigation that centered on Mendelsohn was led by the Justice Department's public integrity section. It dragged on for years after the physician bragged in a 2007 FBI-recorded conversation that he improperly influenced former Florida ...

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New York Times

A Florida City That Never Was
New York Times
It once had a municipal government. But that too was a ruse, a function of voter shenanigans that went unnoticed by the county for nearly 30 years. Since 1961, none of the voters who chose Islandia's succession of mayors and City Council members ...

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