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The long hidden Florida connection to Ireland’s enduring peace
By Abdon Pallasch
FloridaBulldog.org
Just months after it started 26 years ago, Northern Ireland’s peace process could have collapsed after an IRA splinter group killed 31 people with a car bomb in the small town of Omagh. But that group largely dissolved after American trucker-turned spy Dave Rupert helped convict its leader. -
Florida farmworkers brace for more needless tragedy after state fails to protect them and a scorching summer looms
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Gov. Ron DeSantis made news last week by enshrining climate change denial in state law, just as 2024 is shaping up to be the hottest year on record, meaning Floridians can expect a hyperactive hurricane season starting June 1. -
More ethics turmoil as Florida AG’s chief ethics prosecutor quits amid probe she misused job to query state database
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The head of the Florida Attorney General’s Ethics Bureau, which prosecutes cases before the ethics commission, quit abruptly last month after being confronted with evidence she misused her position to improperly query Florida’s Highway Safety and Motor Vehicle database. -
Clash between property rights and higher density rezoning in South Dade causing angst for residents
By William Gjebre
FloridaBulldog.org
UPDATE – May 8: Residents of a predominantly single-family east Killian neighborhood got some relief from a years-long struggle opposing construction of a 216-bed assisted living facility in their neighborhood Tuesday when the Miami-Dade County Commission failed to rezone the site to the needed higher density. -
South Florida prosecutors aren’t saying if they’ll enforce state’s strict new abortion ban
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Going by the book, anyone who violates Florida’s new six-week abortion ban commits a felony and faces up to five years in prison or a $5,000 fine. A repeat, three-time offender is looking at 10 years in prison. -
NRA dumps longtime Florida lobbyist Marion Hammer, halts hundreds of thousands in payments flowing to her
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
No one seems to agree on the actual origin of the idiom, “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” But it’s nonetheless useful to describe what just happened to longtime National Rifle Association Florida lobbyist Marion Hammer.
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