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Author of The Murder Plague, The Roswell Swatch; lucky husband; proud father; former journalist; Reds & Spurs fan; rocker at heart; Florida man.
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Visit Florida housecleaning continues: Rick Scott calls on chief Will Seccombe to resign, board t...

Visit Florida housecleaning continues: Rick Scott calls on chief Will Seccombe to resign, board t...

floridapolitics.com — Gov. Rick Scott called on Visit Florida's Executive Director Will Seccombe t o resign Friday afternoon, continuing a bloodbath at the pseudo-state agency that saw two other top executives fired earlier in the fallout from how it handled a marketing contract with Miami rapper superstar Pitbull.
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Senate passes NASA bill too late, but offers statement of Congress priorities - Florida Politics

Senate passes NASA bill too late, but offers statement of Congress priorities - Florida Politics

floridapolitics.com — When the U.S. Senate passed a quadrennial NASA Authorization bill Saturday it was too late for it ever to get adopted, since the House of Representatives already had adjourned for the session, but the bipartisan bill with bi-cameral input was intended as a message to the Donald Trump White House about Congress's priorities for NASA.
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Florida concealed weapon license popularity skyrocketing - Florida Politics

Florida concealed weapon license popularity skyrocketing - Florida Politics

floridapolitics.com — The number of people licensed to carry concealed weapons in Florida has tripled since President Barack Obama took office in 2009 and now represents almost one of every 13 Floridians. That ratio includes an undetermined number in the millions of Floridians who are not eligible for concealed weapons licenses, such as children, people convicted of certain, disqualifying felonies, or other legally-disqualified people.
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Knox Medical opens doors to Florida's medical marijuana future - Florida Politics

Knox Medical opens doors to Florida's medical marijuana future - Florida Politics

floridapolitics.com — Behind barbed-wire fences and armed guards, an unmarked, nondescript block building invisible from the road features countless surveillance cameras, a walk-in safe, explosion-proof rooms, and labs stocked with equipment that would make any college chemistry department envious, such as an inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometer. This is not Bruce Knox 's father's flower nursery.
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John Morgan torn on possible governor run, and in no hurry - Florida Politics

John Morgan torn on possible governor run, and in no hurry - Florida Politics

floridapolitics.com — John Morgan has powerful split emotions about the prospect of running for governor in 2018 as a Democrat, and figures he has at least a year to decide. Morgan, the 60-year-old Orlando trial attorney who championed Florida's Amendment 2 medical marijuana initiative this year, said others - not he - are pushing for him to run for governor.
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George Soros spends $1.8 million in Florida local races; backs four winners, two losers - Florida...

George Soros spends $1.8 million in Florida local races; backs four winners, two losers - Florida...

floridapolitics.com — Billionaire New York Democratic campaign financier George Soros 's interest topped $1.7 million in Central Florida politics and $1.8 million statewide this year as he financed independent campaigns that helped three Democrats win local or state legislative races while three others he backed lost.
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'The girl rescued at sea' Stephanie Murphy rides that humanitarian service into Congress - Florid...

'The girl rescued at sea' Stephanie Murphy rides that humanitarian service into Congress - Florid...

floridapolitics.com — An event in Congresswoman-elect Stephanie Murphy 's infancy keeps redirecting her life, a life that has the 38-year-old business professor heading to Washington to represent Orlando and Central Florida as the first Vietnamese-American woman in Congress. When she was six months old, her family fled Vietnam on a refugee boat.
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'The girl rescued at sea' Stephanie Murphy rides that humanitarian service into Congress - Florid...

'The girl rescued at sea' Stephanie Murphy rides that humanitarian service into Congress - Florid...

floridapolitics.com — An event in Congresswoman-elect Stephanie Murphy 's infancy keeps redirecting her life, a life that has the 38-year-old business professor heading to Washington to represent Orlando and Central Florida as the first Vietnamese-American woman in Congress. When she was six months old, her family fled Vietnam on a refugee boat.
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For Darren Soto, it's still all about a stronger, fairer economy - Florida Politics

For Darren Soto, it's still all about a stronger, fairer economy - Florida Politics

floridapolitics.com — Of the three new members of Congress elected from Orlando this month, Democrat Darren Soto is the one who's no mystery to constituents, and still committed to the same agenda he's pursued for nearly 10 years in the Florida Legislature: a stronger, fairer economy.
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Meet Congresswoman-elect Val Demings of Orlando - Florida Politics

Meet Congresswoman-elect Val Demings of Orlando - Florida Politics

floridapolitics.com — Long before young Trayvon Martin's tragic death sent destabilizing shockwaves from Central Florida throughout America, long before Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter turned into a standoff, and certainly long before the divisive election campaigns of 2016, Democrat Val Demings was calling for unity in Orlando and in America.
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$8 million spent by outside groups in CD 7, mostly to help Stephanie Murphy upset John Mica - Flo...

$8 million spent by outside groups in CD 7, mostly to help Stephanie Murphy upset John Mica - Flo...

floridapolitics.com — Outside groups spent $8 million in Florida's 7th Congressional District, mostly to help Democrat Stephanie Murphy oust Republican U.S. Rep. John Mica. Updated campaign finance documents filed with the Federal Election Commission this week show outside groups such as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democrats' House Majority PAC combined to spend nearly $6.3 million on advertising either supporting Murphy or attacking Mica.
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Donald Trump win fueled by Panhandle, Lee, Brevard, Pasco counties - Florida Politics

Donald Trump win fueled by Panhandle, Lee, Brevard, Pasco counties - Florida Politics

floridapolitics.com — President-elect Donald Trump's victory in Florida Tuesday included complete dominance of most Panhandle counties, but it was his success in a handful of medium-size counties scattered throughout the state such as Lee, Brevard, Pasco, and Clay that carried him past Hillary Clinton.
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Attack ad comparing Democrat Rick Singh with Donald Trump has GOP backing - Florida Politics

Attack ad comparing Democrat Rick Singh with Donald Trump has GOP backing - Florida Politics

floridapolitics.com — Orange County Property Appraiser Rick Singh may be the first Democrat to be hit by opposition claims that he's a Donald Trump clone - and it's coming from a group partly funded by the Republican Party of Florida.
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