FEATURED
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Fla. regulators OK Duke rate hike for closed nuclear plants
By Gary Fineout
Associated Press
Related Editorial: Nuclear woes: Customers pay even as plants are canceled
Duke Energy’s nearly 2 million customers in Florida will keep paying for the utility giant’s now-shuttered and abandoned nuclear power plants for the next several years.
Florida Secretary Of State Prepares New Voter Purge
By Ashley Lopez
Florida Center for Investigative Reporting
Election officials in Florida have begun renewing efforts to purge alleged non-citizen voters from its voter rolls.
Protect voting rights from new assaults
Editorial
Tampa Bay Times
After the U.S. Supreme Court neutered a key portion of the Voting Rights Act, it didn't take long for states to resurrect efforts to put limits on voting that harm minorities.
Rubio plans to hit Obamacare hard across Florida this month
By Alex Leary
Tampa Bay Times
PolitiFact: Marco Rubio says patients won't be able to keep their doctors under Obamacare: Mostly False
Sen. Marco Rubio is taking a week off with family but is planning a hard-charging return to the Obamacare wars.
FLORIDA
POLITICS
Florida poll: Yes on weed, Crist over Scott, split on gay marriage
By Peter Schorsch
Saint Petersblog
Gov. Rick Scott looks to be in trouble heading into the 2014 governor’s race should he be challenged by … Charlie Crist, according to results from the latest StPetePolls survey via William Mansell of Patch.
Protester face-off with Gaetz just 'Twitter talk'
By James Call
Florida Current
The Dream Defenders holding a sit-in at the state Capitol thought briefly Monday their executive director was going to square off one-on-one in a debate with the chairman of the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee.
Deck stacked on 'stand ground'
Editorial
Tampa Bay Times
Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford cannot defend the "stand your ground" law on its merits, so he's stacking the deck.
President Barack Obama to address veterans in Orlando on Saturday
Staff Report
Tampa Bay Times
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will travel to Orlando on Saturday for the Disabled American Veterans' National Convention.
POLITICAL
RACES
In a word: How voters see Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio
By Alex Leary
Tampa Bay Times
Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio run behind Chris Christie in a hypothetical 2016 presidential matchup with Hillary Clinton, a new poll shows.
George Sheldon, U.S. health honcho, might challenge Pam Bondi on Obamacare platform
By Marc Caputo
Miami Herald
George Sheldon, a longtime Florida political hand and a current U.S. Health & Human Services official, has been talking to political insiders and prospective donors about challenging Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi in 2014.
St. Petersburg mayoral candidates prepare for Tuesday's televised debate
By Mark Puente
Tampa Bay Times
The stakes could not be higher today when the three major mayoral candidates take the stage for a televised debate.
BALLOT
INITIATIVES
Backer says passion, not politics, motivates medical-marijuana drive
By Margie Menzel
News Service of Florida
Orlando attorney John Morgan, whose personal-injury firm employs former Gov. Charlie Crist, says he’s driving a ballot measure to legalize medical marijuana out of passion, not to boost turnout for the Democratic candidate in next year’s gubernatorial race.
ENVIRONMENT
AND ENERGY
Nuclear Costs Continue to Rise
By Mike Vasilinda
Capitol News Service
Even though Duke Energy announced it will no longer ask customers to pay for a nuclear plant that won’t be built…those customers will begin paying almost a dollar a month more.
No time to lose
Editorial
Miami Herald
It’s happening again, and it’s bad. Billions of gallons of foul brown water are being flushed into two South Florida rivers to lower Lake Okeechobee and protect the Herbert Hoover Dike during hurricane season.
EDUCATION
Tony Bennett's chief of staff resigns, too
Associated Press
Tampa Bay Times
A top aide to former Florida Education Commissioner Tony Bennett is no longer working for the state.
Top Florida lawmakers plan to continue push against PARCC
By Jeffrey S. Solochek
Tampa Bay Times
Florida's top lawmakers don't intend to ease up on their pressure for the state to abandon the PARCC testing consortium just because Tony Bennett, the main recipient of their full-court press, is out of the picture.
Lawmaker Considering Legislation To Cut Down 'Islam-Bias' In Fla. School Textbooks
By Sascha Cordner
WFSU Tallahassee
A Florida lawmaker is considering legislation that would give the public input on the content found in Florida school textbooks. His overall aim is to cut down on what he calls the “Islam-bias” in state schools.
Lowest-performing schools in Seminole, Volusia must offer longer day
By Leslie Postal
Orlando Sentinel
A Seminole County elementary school must offer its students an extra hour of reading lessons this coming school year because of poor performance on Florida's key reading test.
The toll of cuts
Editorial
Gainesville Sun
Given the continued high demand for admission to the University of Florida, it might seems like the university came through years of budget cuts unscathed.
JOBS,
BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
Governor’s Office Quietly Announces Appointments to Oversight Board
By Steve Miller
Florida Center for Investigative Reporting
A new Florida law that took effect July 1 broadened the use of public-private partnerships and created a new taskforce to oversee the arrangements.
Citizens records show 1,500 inspection errors
By Charles Elmore
Palm Beach Post
Florida’s largest insurer Citizens admits in documents obtained by The Palm Beach Post that the state-run company and its contractors made errors in more than 1,500 inspections as part of a huge campaign that raised customer bills by more than $200 million a year.
HEALTH
AND SENIORS
The 7 Craziest Obamacare Conspiracy Theories
By Erika Eichelberger
Mother Jones
Obamacare is going to implant you with a microchip. Obamacare is going to tax your golf club.
Leader’s departure ends tumultuous time for Florida’s program to protect nursing home, ALF residents
By Carol Marbin Miller
Miami Herald
When Harold J. “Jim” Crochet, Florida’s top watchdog for residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities, quietly submitted his retirement papers last week, it marked the end of a tumultuous administration that prompted widespread criticism Crochet had turned the Long-term Care Ombudsman Program into a rubber stamp for the powerful industry.
In the Villages, USF Health partnership fills missing piece
By Stephanie Hayes
Tampa Bay Times
One blazing late morning at Florida's Friendliest Hometown, some 80 people line up for water volleyball, having zipped to the pool in customized golf carts that blow bubbles out the back.
IMMIGRATION,
CIVIL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL ISSUES
August heats up for pols on recess, as immigration forces apply pressure
By John Lantigua
Palm Beach Post
U.S. Rep. Daniel Webster, R-Winter Garden, announced Friday that, if certain conditions are met, he will support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, giving supporters of the proposed legislation an important convert to their cause in Florida.
USF may get OK to exhume bodies at Dozier school today
Associated Press
Tampa Tribune
Florida Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet are scheduled to vote on whether to let university researchers identify human remains at a defunct reform school.
JUSTICE
AND THE COURTS
Convicted mass murderer executed in Florida
By Tamara Lush
Associated Press
A man convicted of murdering eight people in Miami-Dade County in the late 1970s was executed Monday night at the Florida State Prison, despite his lawyers' pleas that he was too mentally ill to be put to death.
State Senator asks Florida Cabinet to pardon Marissa Alexander
News Service of Florida
Florida Times-Union
State Sen. Dwight Bullard, D-Miami, wrote to members of the Florida Cabinet on Monday, asking them to support his call for a pardon for Marissa Alexander.
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