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A worker was killed in the staging area for the floats. Investigation is underway.

I arrived at Hospice Woodside Wednesday afternoon at about 4:15 p.m. I waited for a deluxe table to accommodate the lovely floral arrangement for the Schindler Family from freeper gwb and gop man, also on behalf of talk radio in Savannah, Ga and floriduh voter. The flowers arrived before gwb and gop man and I drove them to Hospice Woodside with other decorations for Free Republic's table #8. Freepers, the theme for our table went back to the founding fathers. Printed artwork from Dover Publications was of lady liberty standing side by side with an eagle, a town crier crying...

A man speaking to two women for a moment in a front yard comprised a "social gathering" subject to a fine. By BRIDGET HALL GRUMET, Times Staff Writer Published November 18, 2003 NEW PORT RICHEY - Raymond Pemburn says he is blessed with friends. They call the 89-year-old widower in the morning, or take him to lunch, or stop by to chat if they see him outside. Sometimes they gather for dinner at his home. He just never imagined having a handful of visitors would get him in trouble with his condominium association. Today the Pointe West Condominium Association board...

Greetings, Everyone wants to help Terri. We thought we were done but guess what? We're not. At this point, what can we do? We can pray for Terri's recovery and for her wonderful family and friends (which includes you). If you want to find out what is breaking in Tampa Bay, Florida, Press Releases are posted at Terrisfight.org in real time. I've started a new group for Terri and men can join too. Million Mother Hens for Terri

Watch Fox News Channel. O' Reilly is featuring Terri Schiavo's story. Repeat after Greta's show tonight.

Hi, I did a search and couldn't find this breaking news. Pictures of a fire in the basement of the Millennium Hotel. Small report and back to a report on Arafat Compound.

Hospice Patients Alliance Blasts Hospice Agencies That Terrorize the Chronically Disabled by Ron Panzer, President HPA GRAND RAPIDS, MI - October 15, 2002 - Terri Schiavo currently is being held in a Pinellas County Florida hospice that is not licensed to provide care for the chronically ill. Terri Schiavo is a non-terminal disabled patient with brain damage. Terri's own treating physician, Dr. Vincent Gambone, testified before the court,saying "her condition is one that there is no recovery. The damage that is done to the brain is not repairable."1 However, the chronically disabled are by definition not going to recover completely....

I just caught this on Fox News tonight. A Michigan school system is planning a course in Anti-Americanism. Apparently, it's to teach students critical thinking. Yeah, that must be it.

Just for fun, if you're NOT running for Governor of California, I'd like you to tell us why not? Everyone else seems to be. This is solely a humor-chat thread. If you have jpegs of anybody on earth, feel free to post them here to jazz up the thread.

The AI Live thread is well over a thousand posts. I started this aftermath thread for the benefit of anyone who is a Clay Aiken or Ruben Studdard fan. Bring it on right here. Personally, I have no breaking news today about Clay or Ruben but they were on "E" yesterday. Looks like Clay is going to be the comic and Ruben's the straight man.

I'm probably the first person from Free Republic who attended the Coachman Park Flag Fest that's already home. I selected the front page for this report because those of us in attendance from Free Republic invited rally participants to visit us here. It will be much easier for them to be welcomed on the front page. Welcome. I will have pictures from the rally and will be posting other links here. Flyers were flying in addition to all the American, British and military flags. There were some great signs too. I was interviewed for local television but as time is...

South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle said last week he had convinced the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to dig into its budget for as much as $9.5 million to help keep boat ramps open this summer on drought-plagued Lake Oahe. And Daschle said about $8.7 million of that could come from the operating budget of Oahe Dam. That came as puzzling news to some Corps officials contacted Wednesday, the day after Daschle announced the agreement. They confirmed that the total operating budget for Oahe was about $12 million to $13 million and wondered how the project could function with a...

RALLY, RALLY, RALLY! WHEN: Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 12:00 noon WHERE: COLUMBUS AND DALE MABRY INTERSECTION COME ALL & SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR OUR PRESIDENT AND TROOPS **** Tell everyone you know; Bring flags and signs!!** Let's all get out there and show our support!** ALL THE ANTI-WAR PROTESTERS MANAGE TO ALL GET OUT THERE! LET US, THE TROOP SUPPORTERS ALL GET OUT THERE AND SHOW OUR SUPPORT! "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge. In the world we have entered, the only path to safety is...

Bill McBride was in the audience that afternoon as Smith, his boss and mentor, told a U.S. Senate subcommittee that a corporate lawyer can serve both his clients and the public good. Now, 28 years later, Smith's pithy remark epitomizes McBride's challenge as he tries to make the transition from corporate lawyer to governor of Florida. McBride, 57, is not nearly as plainspoken as Smith. In fact, he is as cautious as Smith is indelicate. But in the nine years that McBride led Holland & Knight, he turned it into a global empire with even more corporate clients that Smith...

Hi, friends! This is going to be totally "free flowing". Some of the transcribers are unavailable and let's just have fun watching Governor Bush WIN AGAIN! Please remember some freepers have no tv coverage so little paragraphs every now and then are helpful for them. I'll try to do that too. Thanks in advance for contributing to another great "live" Jeb thread. Before the debate at 7:00 p.m. (check your local listings or c-span later on), PLEASE VISIT THE GOVERNOR BUSH PRAYER THREAD FOR STRENGTH & UNITY on my profile page. I need to go there myself and say a...

If the admin moderator needs to move this to a different section because this is my opinion, not a real editorial, that's fine. I just wanted to express my frustration at the failed leadership of Maryland's and also Virginia's Governors. They are hiding, it appears, instead of protecting the citizenry. I hope that the citizenry is contacting their elected officials, candidates and the President regarding the stalled Homeland Security Bill; basically, raising the roof on this matter. FAILED LEADERSHIP OF THE GOVERNORS SHOULD NOT GO UNCHALLENGED - especially when we are talking about THE WORST CRIME SPREE in my memory....

Judging law associates' job satisfaction By SCOTT BARANCIK, Times Staff Writer © St. Petersburg Times published October 21, 2002 The results are in from American Lawyer's annual survey of job satisfaction among mid level associates, and once again, Carlton Fields ranked near the top. The Tampa law firm came in fifth place out of 132 worldwide. Greenberg Traurig of Miami, the only other Florida firm represented in the survey, ranked 59th. So where was Holland & Knight? In disarray, it appears. The Tampa heavyweight failed to distribute the anonymous surveys to its third- and fourth-year associates. Spokeswoman Karen Schoening says...

Eckerd Drug has been advertising their Senior Expo which is being held at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg today, October 17th and tomorrow the 18th. My mom and I were going today to see an old friend of the family, Dick Dale, remember him from the Lawrence Welk Show? I took an old sixties record album of him along for him to autograph for old time's sake and I made sure that the Eckerd event staff knew that we really need to be up close to see our friend. We were up close and Mary Lou Metzger was great, then...

HUNT: Next on CAPITAL GANG, Beyond the Beltway looks at Jeb Bush's struggle for a second term as governor of Florida. Political reporter Mark Silva of "The Orlando Sentinel" joins us. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) HUNT: Welcome back. What Republican Jeb Bush hoped would be an easy reelection against former U.S. attorney general Janet Reno became a tough race when lawyer Bill McBride defeated Reno for the Democratic nomination. The latest nonpartisan poll by Insider Advantage shows a 5-point Bush advantage. At their most recent debate, the candidates debated Florida's economy. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GOV. JEB BUSH (R), FLORIDA: What we've done...

CAPTION: The unusual interlacing of his campaign and the teachers group is assailed by the governor as an "umbilical cord." published September 17, 2002 In the small hours of the morning after last week's election, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill McBride raised his voice over more than 100 cheering supporters to thank his wife, Alex Sink, and then called another woman to the stage. As cameras flashed, McBride held upraised hands with Maureen Dinnen, the president of the Florida Education Association, the state teachers union. Then he called up Pat Tornillo, the union's boss in Miami-Dade County, to thank him, too....