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Elton John To Florida Gov: Don't Cut Funding For HIV/AIDS Drugs

AP | Posted 08.01.2011

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Singer Elton John is urging Florida Gov. Rick Scott to protect a program that helps low-income HIV/AIDS patients get medicat...

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Rick Scott's Florida Budget Targets State's Most Vulnerable

The Miami Herald | BY MARC CAPUTO AND AARON SHAROCKMAN | Posted 07.27.2011

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In his speech Thursday, Scott omitted many of the serious-sounding programs he cut: homeless veterans, meals for poor seniors, a council for deafness,...

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Florida Set To Slash Unemployment Benefits

St. Petersburg Times | Michael C. Bender | Posted 07.08.2011

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Out-of-work Floridians would receive fewer state benefits while businesses pay less tax under a controversial proposal approved Friday by a divided Le...

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Strange Bedfellows: What's a Nice Liberal Like Me Doing in Bed With a Tea Party Governor?

Jon Jefferson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jon Jefferson

Scaling back juvenile justice could actually reduce juvenile injustice. I say this after spending a year researching beatings and deaths at a Florida reform school.

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Rick Scott Tells Floridians to Eat Cake

Shawna Vercher | Posted 05.25.2011

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Shawna Vercher

The newly-proposed budget from Florida's newly-crowned king has been unveiled and the agenda is nothing short of class warfare.

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