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Insurance, gaming, Everglades interests tip the lobbying scales
Tallahassee Bureau ChiefTALLAHASSEE -- Insurance carriers, sugar growers pushing to lessen their pollution costs, telecommunications giant AT&T, and an Internet cafe software company dominated spending on lobbyists to influence the Florida Legislature over the first three months...Tags: Employees, Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Labor Legislation, Altamonte Springs, Insurance
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News 13 goes 'Inside Bush v. Gore' with Charles Wells
Staff writerIn local public-affairs programming this weekend: Former Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Wells talks to "Political Connections" at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday on Central Florida News. He talks to Ybeth Bruzual about a book he has written,...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Altamonte Springs, U.S. Supreme Court
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Senate passes Citizens reforms, abandons rate hikes
When the controversial overhaul of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. reached the Senate floor for final consideration Thursday, lawmakers simultaneously voted "Yes" to reforming the state-backed insurer and "No" to new increases in premiums. By a 32-1...Tags: Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Consumers, Elections, Altamonte Springs, Insurance
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House punts on Orange County sick-time bill
Tallahassee Bureau ChiefTALLAHASSEE -- House Majority Leader Steve Precourt is refusing to go along with a Senate deal on a local government sick-leave bill, casting some doubt on whether the Orange County-inspired measure can pass the Legislature by Friday. Precourt, R-...Tags: Parties and Movements, Labor Legislation, Elections, Altamonte Springs, Business
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Organize Now sends Scott a Mother's Day gift wish
Organize Now, the group leading a push for mandatory paid sick time in Orange County, continues to urge Gov. Rick Scott to veto a bill that would block local governments from enacting such local measures, and now they are enlisting moms to convinve him to...
Tags: Politics, Government, Amusement and Theme Parks, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace
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Lawmakers eye Citizens' wind-only policies for next year
Palm Beach County is home to 23,534 of them. Broward has 25,173. Those figures represent the number of wind-only policies Citizens Property Insurance Corp. sells at "actuarially unsound" premiums, or coverage that is routinely priced more than 60 percent...Tags: Hurricanes, Broward County, Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Natural Disasters, Altamonte Springs
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Petition asks Rick Scott to veto bill blocking paid sicktime
A leading group behind the push for mandatory paid sick time in Orange County is starting an online petition to urge Gov. Rick Scott to veto a bill that would block local governments from adopting such measures. Organize Now started the petition over...
Tags: Primaries, Labor Legislation, Amusement and Theme Parks, Elections, Altamonte Springs
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Dolphins, Orlando stadium dreams going down on Legislature's final day
Tallahassee Bureau ChiefTALLAHASSEE -- Backers of a sweeping sports stadium package were working furiously Friday to convince the Florida House to pass tax-breaks for the Miami Dolphins, Orlando soccer boosters, Daytona International Speedway and others. Central Florida Sens....Tags: Florida Elections, Sun Life Stadium, Local Elections, Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, U.S. Department of State
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House sends governor the Orange-inspired sick-leave bill
Tallahassee Bureau ChiefTALLAHASSEE -- The Florida House sent Gov. Rick Scott a sick-leave bill which would block local governments from enacting sick-leave policies like the one slated for a public vote in Orange County. The compromise language passed 76-41 by the House...Tags: Labor Legislation, Elections, Altamonte Springs, Business, Politics
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Major bills await Florida Legislature's final day
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Legislature used its next-to-last day Thursday to pass a watered-down texting-while-driving ban, a plan to slim down the state-run Citizens Property Insurance and legislation that strips local governments of the power to...
Tags: Local Elections, John Thrasher, Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Elections, Altamonte Springs
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Gardiner says new Expressway board will keep Dyer
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — Looks like Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer might get to keep his seat on a new regional toll authority after all. A bill, SB 952, advancing through the Senate would fold the expressway authorities in Orange, Seminole, Osceola and Lake... -
Simmons cuts a deal on Citizens Property Insurance reform
Tallahassee Bureau ChiefTALLAHASSEE -- Sen. David Simmons said he's cut deal with the House to pass a slimmed down Citizens Property Insurance bill that will mirror the House's less aggressive version -- in exchange for revisiting next year the problems with "wind-only" policies...Tags: Politics, Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Altamonte Springs, Insurance
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