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Florida News
Index of Stories
2019
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Florida News 2019
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Posted
February 18, 2019 11:45 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – On February 12,
2019, the Florida Gateway College Board met
in Baker County for its monthly meeting.
Neither the Olustee Battle Reenactment nor
the Battle Festival was anywhere on the
College's agenda. Columbia County residents
Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson and Jim Tatum
brought the item up, which inspired FGC
Board member and Florid Representative Chuck
Brannon to throw up his arms in exasperation
and tell the Board, "I'm not in agreement to
what I am hearing today. And I am not going
to just sit here and not say anything."
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Posted February 18, 2019 08:30 am | Public News
Service
MIAMI - The goal for the thousands of children in
Florida's foster care program is to find forever homes.
But a new tracking system developed at the University of
Miami shows the dream for many children is short-lived.
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Posted
February 14, 2019 05:40 pm
COLUMBIA
COUNTY, FL – Yesterday, February 13, 2019,
the Florida Gateway College Campus Activity
Board sponsored a Black History Festival in
the Student Activity Center.
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Posted
February 13, 2019 06:15 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – As the
January 23, 2019 Tourist Development Council (TDC)
meeting got underway, TDC Director Paula
Vann announced, "At the last TDC meeting I
brought up that the hotel owners were asking
that we do some improvements or ask DOT to
do some improvements at the I-75 and Highway
90 exit." As a result, Ms. Vann invited
Florida Department of Transportation's
(FDOT) landscape team to the TDC. Twenty
minutes after the meeting began, DOTs Marty
Humphreys said, "We have a little issue out
there... We've been working with law
enforcement."
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Posted
February 2, 2019 10:45 pm
TALLAHASSEE
– Sen. Jeff Brandes on Thursday pre-filed
Senate Bill 642, the "Florida First Step
Act," which incorporates the “best ideas”
from the federal criminal justice reform
measure adopted in December by Congress with
widespread bipartisan support and the
backing of President Donald Trump.
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Posted
January 31, 2019 10:40 am
ST. LEO, FL – Saint Leo University was named
a Top 10 Gold-level Military Friendly®
School Award recipient for 2019-2020 in the
category of private institutions offering
doctoral degrees. Saint Leo is ranked
seventh in the nation as a Military
Friendly® School.
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Posted
January 28, 2019 10:55 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – In nineteen days, the
Olustee Battle Festival, the annual
celebration of the February 20, 1864, Baker
County Battle of Olustee, begins. Folks from
all over the world will converge on the area
to fill local hotels, fill up at fast food
emporiums, and visit downtown Lake City for
an "arts and crafts festival." The center
piece of the event is the Olustee Battle
Reenactment. Thousands of white people along
with their children, many waving the
Confederate Battle flag, will be cheering
their Confederate heroes on to victory while
watching Americans blowing each other's
brains out.
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Posted
January 26, 2019 03:15 pm
LAKE CITY, FL – Late Thursday afternoon,
January 24, 2019, the Middle and Lower
Suwannee River Task Force (the Task Force)
met for its second meeting. The Task Force
has members from 12 N. Central FL counties
and while all counties do not front on the
Withlacoochee and or Suwannee Rivers, the
officials have banded together to help find
a solution to the multi-million gallon raw
sewage spills coming out of Valdosta into N.
Florida.
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Posted
January 23, 2019 10:25 am
TALLAHASSEE
– Solidifying a conservative majority, Gov.
Ron DeSantis on Tuesday made his third
appointment to the Florida Supreme Court,
selecting a former top legal aide to Gov.
Jeb Bush and Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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Posted
January 22, 2019 08:35am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – The Lake City Reporter
recently reported on the January 8, 2019,
Florida Gateway College Board meeting, a
meeting in which the board voted unanimously
to end funding for the Olustee Battle
Festival. The College Board is composed of
gubernatorial appointees, six of whom were
present: a banker, three educators, and two
physicians. Three of the six are long time
Columbia County residents.
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Posted
January 16, 2019 04:20 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – On Monday, January 14,
Senator Rob Bradley, one of the most
powerful people in Tallahassee (chairman of
the Senate Appropriations Committee), and
considered by many to be one of
Tallahassee's sharpest elected officials,
and newly elected Representative Chuck
Brannan, listened to various government
representatives asking for money. However,
along with the bevy of local officials, were
everyday citizens who came to voice their
concerns from climate change to education
and things in between.
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Posted
January 14, 2019 12:05 am
COLUMBIA
COUNTY, FL – Senator Rob Bradley (R-Fleming
Island), Chairman of the Columbia County
Legislative Delegation, will preside at the
annual delegation hearing today, Monday,
January 14th at 1:00 pm. The location of
the hearing is the Florida Gateway College
Administrative Bldg 1, Board Room located at
149 SE College Place, Lake City, Florida.
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Posted
January 12, 2019 03:15 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – On Friday afternoon,
Melissa Olin was sworn in as a Circuit Court
Judge in the Third Judicial Circuit of
Florida. Ms. Olin, 48, a former Assistant
State Attorney and a UF graduate, continues
the generational shift begun with the
election of Judge Wesley Douglas and
continued with the elections of Judge Mark
Feagle and Dixie County County Court Judge
Jennifer J. Johnson.
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Posted
January 9, 2019 10:21 am
COLUMBIA
COUNTY, FL – Last night, Florida Gateway College
(FGC) Board Chair Suzanne Norris was the only
board member who exhibited any discomfort with
the support of Lake City's infamous Olustee
Battle Festival, which celebrates the victory of
the South over the North in the 1864 Battle of
Olustee in Baker County. FGC President Larry
Barrett signed a contract in July supporting the
festival.
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Posted
January 4, 2019 06:35 am
COLUMBIA
COUNTY, FL – Last night's meeting of the
County 5 concluded on an upbeat note when
Commissioner Murphy invited Representative
Brannon's District Secretary to the microphone,
"We've got Representative Brannon's associate
here. Step up and introduce yourself."
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Olustee Battle Festival: Funding Battle
Continued at Florida Gateway College – Next
Action Unclear
Foster-Care Placement Instability
Florida Gateway College Celebrates Black
History Month
Hotel Owners Complain About Homeless
Under the I-75 at U.S. 90 – FDOT to
Step In
Comprehensive 'Florida First Step Act' Could
Supplant Many Already-Filed Justice Reform
Bills
St Leo Univ Named as Top 10
Military Friendly School - Ranked 7th in
Nation
Battle of Olustee Festival:
Revisionist History Where Black Lives Didn't
& Still Don't Matter
North FL Leaders To Reach
Out to Valdosta to Find a Solution to Raw Sewage
Spills Floating Into N FL
Gov DeSantis Tilts FL Supreme Court to the
Right
The Lake City Reporter:
Keeping the Olustee Myth Alive – A New Twist
on Letters to the Editor
Sen Bradley & Rep Brannan Came to Columbia
Cnty, Everyday Citizens Voiced Their Concerns
Columbia
County Legislative Delegation Hearing Today
at 1PM: You can make your voice heard
Melissa Olin: 3d Circuit's Newest
Judge
FL
Gateway Col Bd Unanimously
Votes to End Support for Olustee Battle
Festival
Dist 10's Brannon Sworn In
- Dist Sec Hartley Appears Before the Cnty
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