Florida Bans Workers From Signing Up People for Obamacare

The Florida Department of Health is banning outreach workers from signing up uninsured people for Obamacare at county health facilities. The outreach workers, also called "Navigators," are only allowed to distribute materials related to Obamacare by request. HHS spokesman Fabien Levy said,

"This is another blatant and shameful attempt to intimidate groups who will be working to inform Americans about their new health insurance options and help them enroll in coverage, just like Medicare counselors have been doing for years."

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz slammed Fla. Gov. Rick Scott (R) on Twitter: “Time to end the political theatrics and work on implementation, not more obstruction.”.......more

WMNF Fall Marathon!

See what all the fun and fuss are about joining the Circle of Friends! Explore the benefits and rewards of joining the Circle of Friends! Contact Laura Taylor, Development Director, at 813-865-8260 or email laura@wmnf.org!

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Sun Sentinel Reporter Goes Off on Tea Partier

Florida-Friendly Landscaping

The Polk County Florida Yards & Neighborhoods Program will teach you how to landscape the Florida-Friendly way! This means conserving water and practicing environmentally sustainable landscape maintenance practices. Any landscape can be Florida-Friendly if it is designed and maintained following the nine principles of Florida-Friendly Landscaping........more

Zimmerman Is A Sandy Hook, Aurora Waiting To Happen

Apparently Zimmerman does not have a friend in his local police chief. Steve Bracknell, who heads the department in Lake Mary, Florida, where Zimmerman lives, agreed with some pretty intense criticisms of the acquitted killer contained in two angry emails he received Tuesday about Zimmerman's recent altercation with his wife. "Zimmerman is a Sandy Hook, Aurora waiting to happen," the emailer, Santiago Rodriguez, asserted, in an email posted online. "Your job is to protect the communities you serve, and you are failing big time."........more

Nathan Bedford Forrest High School

An online petition with more than 78,000 signatures requests a reconsideration of the name of a Florida high school christened after the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

Nathan Bedford Forrest High School, of the Duval County School District in Jacksonville, opened in 1959 and was named after the Confederate Army Lieutenant General during the Civil War who joined the KKK around early 1867......more>

Rick Scott Is Trying To Dupe Voters

Gov. Rick Scott is in trouble. With his favorability rating in the tank and his re-election campaign just around the corner, Scott has promised to spend $100 million of special-interest money to convince Floridians he isn’t who they think he is. The problem is Scott has done very little as governor to crow about........more>

Tampa, High Speed Chase and Shootout!

Watch and listen as Hillsborough Sheriff David Gee and Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor give this blow-by-blow account of the chase and shootout of a rape suspect, from the moment it began to the gunfire that ended it.

What Stogie Had For Lunch

The Royal Red Robin

At the Red Robin, Citrus Park Town Center in Tampa

Florida Republicans Fraud Alert

The potential for fraud in the 2012 presidential election was how Florida Republicans justified measures that made it tougher to register voters. So nine months after ballots were counted, where exactly are the culprits of voter registration fraud? The Florida Department of Law Enforcement hasn't found them. They did find 2, both involving Strategic Allied Consulting, a vendor for the Republican Party of Florida........more>