Brevard Outlook

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Misdirection on the SBA Fund Run and Lockdown

Posted on December 4th, 2007
by Scott Ellis in Budget

Listening to the radio this morning, I heard a completely bizarre interpretation of the recent run on and closing of the State Board of Adminstration (SBA) fund of local government dollars. The State Representative on the talk show claimed the reason the SBA had hit the rocks was greed on the part of local governments, [...]

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211 Brevard Commits to Supporting Abortion Services

Posted on November 29th, 2007
by Lawrence Salberg in Budget, Government

211 Brevard, an organization originally designed to assist with disaster services, emergency financial needs, and preventing crisis homeless situations, has kept a for-profit full-service Orlando abortion clinic on their list of nearly 1,600 organizations for the past several years. WomanCare, an abortion clinic that previously was based in Cocoa, applied for and received direct referrals [...]

 
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Palm Bay Mayor Mazziotti wants to Ban Chinese Goods

Posted on October 25th, 2007
by Lawrence Salberg in Budget, Laws

Local blogger John Masters reports on seeing Palm Bay on the front page of the Drudge Report. He also reports hearing mayor John Mazziotti on the Jerry Doyle radio station. Both incidents were on account of the Mayor’s recommendations that City of Palm Bay not engage in the purchasing of imported Chinese products. Matt Drudge [...]

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