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Activists Stopped From Feeding the Homeless in Fort Lauderdale from Voice Media Group on Vimeo.Ninety-year-old Arnold Abbott may have grabbed international attention last week when he defied a new ordinance designed to restrict the feeding of homeless people, but other activist groups are just warming up. Jillian Pim, 30, from…

Election Day’s coast-to-coast drubbing of Democratic candidates may have party leaders reeling elsewhere, but Florida’s blue brigade is at home with adversity, having endured minority status in the state Legislature for almost two decades. See also: – Rick Scott Is Governor Again Because Broward Didn’t Show Up at the Polls…

Rick Scott was able to win his reelection bid by 1 percentage point. Amendment 2 fell short by 3 percentage points. As predicted for months, the midterm election races in Florida ended up razor-thin close in the end. And thanks to lower-than-average turnout in Broward County, those races were ultimately…

OK. This is it. The polls have closed, and it’s time to tally up them votes. After all the handshakes and ads and campaigning and the spending of millions upon millions of dollars, the time has finally come to announce who the winners are in Florida’s midterm election. We could…

As ever, Florida is at the center of Election Day for dubious reasons. This time around, it’s basically because no other state has spent more on elections this year than the Sunshine State. All told, the 2014 election cycle has raised a whopping $345 million, reports the Miami Herald. And…

Protesters Call Obama “Chickenshit” on Election Day from Voice Media Group on Vimeo. The sign Bob Kunst was waving on the street corner in front of the Torch of Friendship monument this past weekend reads “OBAMA IS THE ‘CHICKENS**T! JEW HATING JIHADIST.” Doozy is an understatement for Kunst, a practiced…

Election Day has arrived, and while the big battle remains Scott versus Crist and whether you want to vote for medical marijuana, there are also some pretty important local races going down you may want to be aware of. While voting can be a time-consuming affair, no one should just…

Editor’s note: Evan Rowe is an adjunct professor of history at Broward College. Despite the campaign hype and advertising, despite the fact that this election will decide Florida’s governor and the legality of medical marijuana, the largest voting bloc this election cycle will be, as it was in 2010, the…

With Election Day a mere five days away, the governor’s race continues to look like a photo finish. But, in a seemingly last-minute twist, Qunnipiac University’s latest poll (and last before the election) has given Charlie Crist a slight edge over Rick Scott. The number increases a bit when Libertarian…

Election Day on Tuesday is going to decide an important local issue that could impact schools in Broward. Voters are being asked to decide on a referendum that would help fund safety projects for public schools in Broward. Taxpayers are being asked to foot the $800 million bill that will…

Jeb Bush — best buddy to Rick Scott, medical marijuana hater, and enemy of Matt Damon — is more than likely going to run for president in 2016. Oh, he’s also the younger brother of former President George W. Bush. According to Jeb’s son, George P. Bush, the younger Bush…

Rick Scott is supposed to be in California today for a deposition in a lawsuit his lawyers filed to block the release of emails from the governor’s Gmail account to allegedly circumvent Florida’s public records law. It’s a serious issue that puts more light on Scott’s shady ways. But instead…

Last year, Deerfield Beach activist, blogger, and self-proclaimed “militant atheist” Chaz Stevens made headlines when he put up a Festivus Pole in the Florida Capitol rotunda. Last year’s pole — which was an eight-foot-tall pole made of Pabst Plue Ribbon beer cans — was inspired by Tallahassee officials allowing Christian…

In September of 2013, we brought you the story of Attorney General Pam Bondi asking Gov. Rick Scott to postpone the execution of an inmate on Florida’s death row so she could throw herself a fundraiser. Scott honored Bondi’s request, and the execution of Marshall Lee Gore was stayed so…

Well, that was brutal. Fangate obviously didn’t cool down any tempers. Last night, Gov. Rick Scott met challenger Charlie Crist in the final gubernatorial debate. If you plugged into the live feed from Jacksonville, you witnessed the only show outside of the WWE featuring well-tanned and slightly delirious egos pounding…

Rick Scott and Charlie Crist are set to have their third and final debate tonight on CNN, two weeks from Election Day. And this time, there will be no fans. CNN has made it clear to both candidates that no fans are allowed in tonight’s debate, and Crist has agreed…

Fort Lauderdale city commissioners will be voting tonight on the proposed ordinance that could cripple groups that distribute food to the city’s homeless. The crux of the ordinance deals with applying rules on food handling, providing toilet facilities and hand-washing areas, and requirements on how and when the food should…

Correction, October 21, 10:50 a.m. : The Bradenton Herald endorsed Rick Scott. This article has been corrected to reflect that. Nearly every major newspaper in Florida has endorsed Charlie Crist for governor this week. The endorsements began with the Tampa Bay Times weighing in last weekend and the Miami Herald…

FanGate is only going to get more insufferably weird before it finally dies down. Debate organizers Leadership Florida and the Florida Press Association said in their statement Thursday that Crist had agreed to not bring his fan if the temperature were cool enough. Organizers also say that both candidates signed…

Because Florida is Florida, the topic of the day Thursday is, of course, FanGate. And now debate organizers have released a statement saying that Charlie Crist did, intact, break debate rules by having his trusty fan with him onstage. The statement from the Leadership Florida and the Florida Press Association…

Rick Scott might be trying to recover this morning from one of the more idiotic and childish political blunders since barefoot Greeks first started tallying votes in the Acropolis. But the current governor of Florida actually might have a bigger issue starting today. Scott — whose personal wealth is huge…