Alex Sink

Thanksgiving is a Big Fire Danger Day

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Thanksgiving is many things to many people. It's a day to give thanks, a day to watch football, a day off from work, an awful travel day. For State Fire Marshal Alex Sink, it's the number one day of the...

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Dark-horse DeLand candidate for governor has eye on reform

Michael Arth, pitching a proposal in 2007 for a homeless village in Volusia County, is now running for governor. (ORLANDO SENTINEL FILE) By Ludmilla Lelis Orlando Sentinel DeLAND — In 2001, Michael E. Arth moved into a...

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Support the Repeal of FL's Ban on Gay Adoption

Florida is still the only state that explicitly denies LGBTs the right to adopt even though it will let people who have been convicted of assault, battery, domestic violence, drug use/sale, and even child abuse adopt five years...

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YDA Orlando Wrap Up

This past weekend the Young Democrats of America held their fall conference in Orlando, FL. I, along with about 250 others nationwide, traveled to the sunny city for a weekend full of wonderful meetings, trainings, planning...

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Protests at Calif. universities a sign for Florida?

Tuition at Florida's public universities has already gone up by as much as 15 percent. TALLAHASSEE (Bay News 9) -- Dozens of student protesters in California have backed down after three days of demonstrations. They're upset...

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Sink tries to save some trees

TALLAHASSEE -- Remember not too long ago when she trashed all her staff's Blackberrys? Now Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink is going after the paper people waste in the course of operating and communicating the daily doings of...

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Federal authorities still uncovering Rothstein assets

Among the seized items were jewels, 20 cars, guitars, and $15 million cash in Morocco. Prosecutors said all of the property, donations and other items were derived from Rothstein's alleged Ponzi scheme. Rothstein, 47, has not...

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Feds seizing even more Rothstein assets

Jewels, 20 cars, guitars, and $15 million cash in Morocco among items Attorney Scott Rothstein had his fingers – and maybe his toes too – in a lot more business pies than was evident when the $1 billion Ponzi scandal...

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Sink wants legislators to order paperless payments

Vowing to save the state $5 million, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink said Monday she's asking legislators to make it easier for her office to go paperless to collect payments from vendors. The proposed legislation would allow...

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US details assets seized from Fla. lawyer

A sports car worth nearly $2 million, an 87-foot (26.5-meter) yacht and a guitar collection worth as much as $20,000 were among the assets seized from a U.S. lawyer suspected of operating a massive fraud scheme, according to a...

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