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Brent Batten: Wrong shows scheduled for RightNetwork
Published 9/8/2010 at 3:51 p.m. 0 comments
Its founders hope the success of Fox News and conservative talk radio will carry over to entertainment.
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Brent Batten: "Jackson" draws immediate attention
Updated 9/3/2010 at 3:34 p.m. 21 comments
Documents to be presented to commissioners include the phrase, “Estimate to complete (right of way) acquisition for the middle section in anticipation of Jackson Labs arrival.”
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Brent Batten: Supreme Court draws line through Amendment 7
Published 9/1/2010 at 3:00 p.m. 0 comments
The Florida Supreme Court has removed three items, all promoted by the Republican-led Legislature, from the slate of proposed constitutional amendments.
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Brent Batten: I hate robocalls _ Press 1 if you agree...
Published 8/30/2010 at 4:24 p.m. 2 comments
Any notion that the political class had maxed out the phone’s potential by having one recording device speak to another recording device is dispelled now by revelations of a new robo _ the robopoll.
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Brent Batten: Updated FEMA maps based on decade-old data
Updated 8/28/2010 at 3:29 p.m. 3 comments
A drawn out process of revisions and appeals dating back to 1996 resulted in “new” flood zone maps based on readings taken before the development boom of the 2000s took place.
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Brent Batten: Incumbents survive round one
Updated 8/25/2010 at 5:34 p.m. 2 comments
But based on Tuesday’s results, people aren’t ready to throw them out of “Our House,” just yet.
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Brent Batten: Those aren't tears (on the first day of school), it's raining out
Published 8/23/2010 at 3:47 p.m. 3 comments
It was as if the heavens were sending out a warning to the school staff _ “Something onery this way comes.”
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Brent Batten: FEMA maps spur flood of questions
Updated 8/21/2010 at 5:27 p.m. 8 comments
There is a way to minimize the cost of the insurance and possibly to avoid it altogether. It’s going to require some action on your part though.
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Brent Batten: Islands offer Jackson little shelter; Florida doctors nearly revolt
Updated 8/18/2010 at 3:56 p.m. 18 comments
Such accounts get more than their share of negative publicity, but there’s nothing inherently illegal about them.
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Brent Batten: Mesac Damas deserves justice -- swiftly
Published 8/16/2010 at 3:48 p.m. 9 comments
Defense attorneys will tell you that even in a case where your client has confessed _ as Damas has, famously, on video, to a reporter _ there are steps that must be taken to ensure justice.
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Brent Batten: Lawsuit protects pipe dreams
Published 8/11/2010 at 3:05 p.m. 1 comment
How can one person know what another person is going to do once the one person is no longer with the other person? Right?
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Brent Batten: Attorney is on Jackson Lab's case
Updated 8/9/2010 at 6:56 p.m. 48 comments
If you’re a proponent of the idea of using taxpayer support to fund the first stage of what is hoped will be a job-creating advanced medical hub at the Ave Maria site, you’re not going to like the tenor of ...
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Brent Batten: County should trust less, E-Verify more
Updated 8/7/2010 at 3:44 p.m. 14 comments
Many bidders aren’t even registered with E-Verify and county purchasing officials acknowledge it’s not something they check when reviewing bids.
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Brent Batten: And the winner is (insert candidate name here)
Published 8/4/2010 at 3:32 p.m. 12 comments
Such is the state of politics today. Everything that can be spun will be spun. And everything can be spun.
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Brent Batten: Dangerous intersections take many forms
Updated 8/2/2010 at 6:20 p.m. 0 comments
There are intersections of ideas, crossroads between individuals and circumstances, that can prove dangerous too.
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