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Mitch PerryAugust 14, 2016

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For what will probably be the only time before the Aug. 30 primary election, Debbie Wasserman Schultz debated her opponent in Florida’s 23rd Congressional District, Tim Canova. The setting was an hourlong debate broadcast live on “Facing South Florida with Jim DeFede” on CBS4 Miami at 8 a.m. Sunday. Canova, an international law professor at Nova Southeastern University, has been calling on the six-term incumbent […]

Associated PressAugust 14, 2016

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Some friends don’t let friends talk politics anymore on Facebook. Others are on “unfriending” sprees. And some, such as Adolfo Olivas of Hamilton, Ohio, have decided to just shut down their accounts, as the divisive presidential campaign causes a deluge of news feeds amid photos of smiling kids’ first day of school and what’s on […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 13, 2016

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Better late than never? A report from The Hill suggests a rapid expansion of the Florida operation of the Donald Trump campaign is imminent. The Republican National Committee and “senior Trump campaign officials” have agreed to 25 field offices and more than 200 staff members in the state, The Hill reports, after a Friday meeting in Orlando. […]

Associated PressAugust 12, 2016

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Hillary Clinton‘s campaign says the Democratic nominee and her husband paid a federal tax rate of 34.2 percent and donated 9.8 percent of their income to charity last year. The Clintons are releasing their 2015 filings on Friday. Her campaign is also releasing returns from running mate Tim Kaine and his wife. The campaign says […]

Scott PowersAugust 11, 2016

For the first time in Central Florida Donald Trump brought up Orlando’s Pulse nightclub massacre in more than a passing way — and his advice was that people should be prepared to shoot back in such situations. It’s not a new suggestion from the Republican nominee. He brought it up shortly after the Paris and San […]

Mitch PerryAugust 11, 2016

With health officials reporting there are now more than 400 travel-related cases of the Zika virus in Florida and 22 locally transmitted cases, Pinellas County Republican Rep. David Jolly has become the latest Florida lawmaker calling on Congress to return to Washington to pass a bill to fund the growing health crisis. “With Congress not scheduled to […]

Diane RobertsAugust 11, 2016

The streets of Miami and Fort Lauderdale flood on a distressingly regular basis; the drinking water in Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties is getting salty; mosquitoes infect you with Zika; toxic algae in our rivers, lakes and seas will give you a hideous rash, attack your nervous system, and impair your liver. Nature has […]

Tom JacksonAugust 10, 2016

By all that is reasonable in the world of campaign politics, thoughtful people ought to be wrangling over Donald Trump’s economic plan, announced Monday in Detroit. It does, after all, present the possibility of an ambitious return to supply-side policies; encouraging private businesses both large and small with lowered taxes and a regulatory freeze. This […]

Mitch PerryAugust 10, 2016

Debbie Wasserman Schultz has finally agreed to debate her Democratic party challenger, Tim Canova. Canova, however, hasn’t said if he will participate, in part because it would only last fifteen minutes. “The voters of my district deserve better than a mere 15 minutes of discussion on the issues,” Canova told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. “Does […]

Mitch PerryAugust 10, 2016

I’m sure that after you got yourself up this morning, you might have reached for a cup of coffee, juice or water. It’s something that we don’t have to think too hard about, usually. Now let’s go across the globe — to Aleppo, Syria. The United Nations on Tuesday called for a “humanitarian pause” in […]

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Tim Canova clash over Iranian nuclear deal in first debate

Unfriended? Divisive presidential campaign roils Facebook

Report: Donald Trump campaign to ramp up Florida operation

Hillary Clinton campaign reports 34.2 percent tax rate

Donald Trump’s advice in Kissimmee: ‘Shoot back’

David Jolly latest Florida lawmaker to call for Congress to return to D.C. to find Zika funding

Diane Roberts: Nature at war with Florida — thanks, Rick Scott!

Tom Jackson: Donald Trump consumed by fire he kindled

Debbie Wasserman Schultz agrees to debate Tim Canova this Sunday morning – for 15 minutes, anyway

Mitch Perry Report for 8.10.16 — Aleppo needs water