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Airport workers want higher minimum wage, but taxpayers will pay price

Increasing the minimum wage for workers at a local airport may bring expensive consequences for all county taxpayers. Since last year, workers at theHollywood-Fort Lauderdale International Airportin […]

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SEIU moves to organize Fort Lauderdale airport workers

Now thatBroward Countyelected officials back a higher wage for employees at a local airport, theService Employees International Unionsays it’s time for those workers to join their labor […]

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Florida revives push to give driver’s license to undocumented immigrants

Florida could join the ranks with other states allowing undocumented immigrants to get a drivers’ license. The push is being driven by several groups petitioning lawmakers to […]

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Obamacare plug starring Richard Simmons in lurid web stream cost taxpayers $1.37 million

Facing a $78 million budget shortfall, California’s Obamacare exchange has spent $1.37 million to fund an outreach video featuring exercise guru Richard Simmons gyrating on the floor […]

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Venezuela’s new spending restrictions to cost Florida $1billion annually in tourism

Venezuelan tourists hoping to find fun inFlorida‘s sun are being told to make their plans on the cheap. New regulations imposed by theVenezuelan governmentrestrictvacationers planning trips to […]

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Audit called over $1.37M spent on Obamacare exchange Richard Simmons video

A California senator is seeking to audit the state’s Obamacare exchange after a Watchdog.org story revealed that $1.37 million was spent on a campaign featuring an eight-hour […]

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Florida builders worry about worker shortage

Developers and builders in southeastFlorida are worried about a growing shortage of qualified construction workers. In the past six months,Edward Ramos, who ownsRamos Builders Inc.in Cape Coral, […]

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Secret abortion fees hidden in Obamacare premiums; House bill demands fix

Insurance companies working under the Obamacare umbrella have secretly added a surcharge to cover the cost of abortions, an apparent violation of federal law that forbids the […]

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Local police, taxpayers stuck with security tab for Obamas’, Pelosi’s Hawaiian vacations

During her recent visit to Maui and the home of close family friend Oprah Winfrey, First Lady Michelle Obama was escorted by Maui police. The tab for […]

Law enforcement requested Verizon data more than 320,000 times in 2013

U.S. law enforcement agencies requested Verizon customer data than 320,000 times in 2013, according to a recently published transparency report by the company. Verizon published its […]

US Constitution could keep state officials from going to jail for helping NSA

Certain states are considering legislation that would criminalize helping theNational Security Agency, but ironically, none other than theU.S. Constitutionmight stop to that. Two days beforePresident Obama was […]

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Expensive Obamacare website poorly translated into ‘Spanglish’

First there were the ays. Then came the malfunction. Now, the Spanish version of the Obamacare website, www.Cuidadodesalud.gov is lost in translation. Luis Alvarez Castro, a University […]

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