So, a bodyslam from across the ropes for our economy, then! We sent our intern Shelby England – ON HIS LAST DAY, SIGH – to cover Gov. Rick Scott’s appearance in at the Full Sail-adjacent new WWE violence complex, and this is what he brought back. You might know by now that Gov. Scott...
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Today’s been a big fat wad of Florida depression, which you probably already know. You’re probably also aware that today whiny gubernatorial gumball Rick Scott got his way on the second of his Medicaid waiver requests from the feds, prompting him to release the following blast of ridiculously wronged optimism in the face of...
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![And… Creationists [heart] Gov. Rick Scott, too! Or at least his vouchers.](http://blogs.orlandoweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/JESUS-AND-SCOTT-201x300.jpg)
Hot on the heels of the revelation that Satanists are dancing among the flames of hell in fetishistic love for Gov. Rick Scott’s sweet embrace of religious teachings in schools, it turns out that (in a somewhat more serious and potentially harmful way) Creationists are reaping the benefits of school vouchers, and some are...
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How did we miss this? On July 2, Buzzfeed put out a post with 69 of your favorite celebrity-politicians in full high school regalia. They’re all funny, in that gum-stuck-in-your-hair kind of way, but this one is obviously our favorite. The chrome-domed officer of our perpetual failure (currently), Gov. Rick Scott, exhibits a plaid...
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Are you registered to vote? You may think you are, but if you live in Florida, you just never know. The state is trying to purge the voter rolls of voters who are illegally registered to vote, and in the process, they’re sending letters to people who are legally registered voters and telling them...
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The Palm Beach Post is reporting tonight that Gov. Rick Scott is not only a big, old joke right here in his home state of Florida – he’s also killing them in Spain, where he’s become fodder for Spanish TV stations that are ridiculing him for meeting Spain’s King Juan Carlos and bringing up...
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This Earth Day, the city’s do-gooders will once again converge at Lake Eola Park for a day of activism and ideas.
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Though he touts himself as the “jobs” governor, Gov. Scott’s ability to fill job vacancies — specifically, those that pop-up in appointed or elected county offices — may be taken away, if two local state representatives have anything to say about it. Earlier this month, Florida representatives Scott Randolph (D-Dist. 36) and Darren Soto...
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The AP is reporting that Florida has just lost out on a $100 million federal grant for early learning education … because Gov. Rick Scott didn’t like that the money, like most grant money, had “strings attached” — namely, a commitment to keep funding projects on the state level once the federal money went...
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On Oct. 10, Florida governor Rick Scott met with reporters from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. On the subject of state money for universities, he said he wanted to begin “shifting funding to degrees that have the best job prospects.” The Tribune noted that this would also entail the shift of funding away from programs like...
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