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Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau Chief, news junkie, Minnesota native, passionate about forcing pols to tell truth. 2018-19 Nieman Fellow.

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  1. Dec 28

    Florida Department of Corrections questions why this might be perceived as 'sketchy' and 'secret,' since the contracts are available online.

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    Dec 28

    How Florida Man does local politics: Receiving cash and instructions from a mystery man in a Flanigan’s parking lot to allegedly impersonate a union and create an attack ad falsely accusing a mayoral candidate of being a mob boss. Then he gets sued.

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  3. Dec 28

    Read this thread! It's excellent follow up and deep dive reporting by on the secret funds, sketchy prison contracts and cozy relationships that continued at Florida's Department of Corrections under ask-few-questions .

    Private companies are doing more business than ever in Florida state's prison system. This doesn’t usually work out well for inmates and their loved ones, who are bearing record-high costs associated with incarceration. (1/11)
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    Dec 21

    Gov. Scott leaves office with jobless rate at 3.3 percent. This chart shows the national & state unemployment rates since Nov. 2008 & how they have largely mirrored each other

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    Dec 20

    Congratulations to , chosen by Harvard's Nieman Fellows for the 2019 Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. Her relentless reporting has exposed numerous problems including the Larry Nassar/USA Gymnastics sexual abuse scandal.

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    Dec 18

    Results of , , and FL Agriculture Comm by State Senate district. Both Gillum and Nelson won 19/40 districts - while Nikkie Fried won 20/40. SD9 and SD39 were very close - and both are up in 2020 with termed-out incumbents - they'll be biggest battles

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    Dec 18

    As a reminder, this is the "charitable" fund we first reported Trump used to give $25,000 to Pam Bondi's campaign while her office was considering complaints against Trump University. And note: We reported this in '13 - long before any campaign. Because it was a problem, period.

    Trump agrees to shut down his charity amid allegations he used it for personal and political benefit
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    Dec 18

    what Is going on with the Flynn sentencing? Pundits miss the point that Sullivan has read all the unredacted documents. what he is really asking is why didn’t Mueller charge Flynn with more serious crimes (treason) and why is Mueller willing to accept so little from him.

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    Dec 19

    “The face of the epidemic is white. That’s what’s reported in the papers. That’s what’s discussed in the congressional meetings. It is not yet on anyone’s radar that it’s converting in the cities to a majority-black epidemic.”

    Turns out like most things, no one too much cares if it’s hurting black folks. Since we decided to cover the opioid epidemic with compassion and not scorn, we’ve largely left black people out of the narrative. This is amazing, tragic, reporting.
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    Dec 14

    One of the stories/series I spent the most time on when at . 's new legislative affairs director played a starring role. After our stories, grand jury said that broke law, but nothing happened for reasons I'll never forget

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    Dec 12

    Oh look, Citizens Property Insurance - which delayed a proposed rate hike vote until after the election - went ahead and voted to raise its insurance rates in 2019

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    Dec 12

    The investigation that dogged 's campaign to be 's 1st black governor has at last yielded 2 indictments, neither of them Gillum. But one is a prior Tallahassee mayor, Scott Maddox. via

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    Dec 11

    Excited to moderate a panel discussing the constructive and critical relationship between government agencies, the press, and investigative reporters with , , and .

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    Dec 6

    Rick Scott's campaign just filed its last FEC report of the cycle In total, Scott himself donated just shy of $70M to his own campaign, roughly 84% of all contributions it received .

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    Dec 6

    Open secret no longer -- recommending for state Ed Commish (to be formally selected by GOP-controlled Bd of Ed) and Dem for emergency mgnt director. Moskowitz, a powerful post-Parkland voice, works for AshBritt Environmental

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  16. Dec 4

    Jeffrey Epstein, serial sex abuser, settles one case, apologizes. Next up: federal court

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    Nov 30

    Not everyone celebrating NAFTA rewrite

    As currently drafted this deal will put seasonal vegetable growers out of business. It allows to dump government subsidized produce on the U.S. market. Going forward America will depend on Mexico for our winter vegetables. Unacceptable.
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    Nov 30

    The Mooch's unfounded attack on lasted roughly 1/10 of a full Scaramucci before being withdrawn

    Ok Julie. Terrific timing to you. Planted news is when oppositional research is deployed steadily and consistently in the press until they dissolve their target. I will accept that this wasn’t the case, the timing was just coincidental.
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    Nov 29

    In DC politics, it's strangely acceptable to make things up - like this blowhard. You don't get away with that in journalism. Great work from in the Miami Herald gave voice to the young victims of a rich, powerful sex predator. Government failed to do that.

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    Nov 29

    NEW: Trump labor secretary Alexander Acosta out of the running for attorney general after Miami Herald's report, according to two sources close to the president.

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