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Mike Fasano

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    January 19, 2012

    State Senate Honors "Crisis Pregnancy Centers," Outraging Pro-Choice Activists

    Late on Tuesday, three Florida state senators -- Mike Haridopolos, John Thrasher and Mike Fasano -- pushed through a resolution honoring so-called "crisis pregnancy centers," a symbolic gesture that has outraged the abortion rights movement. The problem, advocates say, is that such centers have reli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Florida Senate Bill Aims to End NFL Blackouts

    ​Maybe its the fact that all three Florida teams suck this year. Maybe its the fact that financially strapped Floridians don't want to shell out for tickets. Whatever the case, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jacksonville Jaguars and Miami Dolphins have all had to deal with the threat or reality of blac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    Florida Legislature Gave $1.5 Million to Lobbyist Ron Book's Daughter's Nonprofit She Didn't Even Want

    Republicans up in Tallahassee are so used to giving money to things associated with Miami-based power lobbyist Ron Book that they ended up giving $1.5 million to a nonprofit run by his daughter Lauren Book that she didn't even ask for or apparently need. The odd moves came as those very same politic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    Rick Scott Wants to Kill Citizens Property Insurance

    ​Rick Scott wants to run Florida like a business, but he seems ideologically driven to make sure the state isn't in the business of much. Fresh off a Pulitzer win for investigative reporting, Paige St. John of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune yesterday filed a shocker claiming Scott aims to k ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Sen. Jim Norman Protects the Rights of Farms at the Expense of Florida Consumers

    via Flickr CALM ActionWhat Florida Senator Jim Norman doesn't want us to see.​Something is wrong with Florida Sen. Jim Norman. I don't mean that something is wrong with his physical or mental health (well, maybe the latter), but rather that something is wrong with him in general. He is defective, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    Rick Scott to Abolish Office of Drug Control as Pill Mill Fight Faces Uphill Battle

    ​Cracking down on pill mills was supposed to be one of the state government's biggest triumphs of the year. New legislation taking aim at regulating "pain management" clinics that wantonly prescribe addictive pain medications went into effect in October, but the government has blown several deadli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    Crist Backers Send Flyers Picturing Rubio With Che Guevara

    ​How desperate are backers of Charlie Crist's independent Senate campaign? Apparently desperate enough to send a flyer to Republican voters picturing Republican Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, juxtaposed next to an image of Che Guevara while claiming the conservative former state House s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    Marco Rubio Fighting Out Against Anti-Miami Bias

    via Rubio's Flickr​President Obama and many in his administration have been accused of "Chicago style-politics" by the likes of Glenn Beck and others. Now Marco Rubio is facing similar criticism for being "a slick package from Miami." Maybe the two can get together and man hug it out."Rubio is a s ... More >>

  • News

    August 13, 2009

    Shafted

    A cop left Eric Brody brain damaged 11 years ago. His family still hasn't received a penny of compensation.

  • News

    May 17, 2001

    The Last Pony Show, Part 2

    Hialeah Park loses by a nose in Tallahassee, the nose belonging to Mario Diaz-Balart

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