MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - As President Obama will host a "tele-town hall" with seniors later this morning, Kendrick Meek celebrated the relief coming to nearly a half-million Florida seniors starting this week as part of health care reform enacted this s ...
Posted Tuesday, June 8th 2010 at 11:39AM
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MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - As Kendrick Meek urges Governor Charlie Crist to veto HB 1143, a draconian anti-privacy legislation, commonly referred to as the ultrasound bill, Kendrick Meek's U.S. Senate campaign ...
Posted Tuesday, June 8th 2010 at 9:58AM
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I know what it's like to lead a team to a thrilling victory. And I know what it's like to work hard to help your family get ahead.
That's why no matter how often Kendrick Meek says he's one of my biggest fans, I will always say I'm a bigger fan of ...
Posted Tuesday, June 8th 2010 at 9:48AM
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Republicans in Washington are increasingly fidgety about developments in the U.S. Senate race in Florida. The bad news is that Republican consultants ...
Posted Monday, June 7th 2010 at 3:54PM
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MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - Kendrick Meek received the endorsement today of the Alliance for Retired Americans in Orlando. In their endorsement, the Alliance highlighted Kendrick's fight for health care reform that puts seniors and middle class Floridians ...
Posted Monday, June 7th 2010 at 3:48PM
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MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - PolitiFact reviews confirm that Charlie Crist really is really inconsistent.
Crist recently received two full flop ratings, one for claiming that he'd probably give Republican contributions back (http://www.politifact.com/flo ...
Posted Monday, June 7th 2010 at 3:41PM
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Greetings Everyone!
We are officially back for our hiatus as we allowed time for our staff to finish this past semester. We are pleased to be back with daily features of Black Scholars - we actually missed being immersed in the great work conducte ...
Posted Sunday, June 6th 2010 at 11:11AM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index features Dr. Ronald Walters, Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. Dr. Ronald Walters is one of the most articulate and internationally renowned experts on issues of African Ameri ...
Posted Friday, June 4th 2010 at 2:29PM
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Dear Friend,
Charlie Crist likes to think of himself as a newly-minted No Party Affiliation candidate, but he can't run away from his Republican past.
Just Wednesday, Jim Greer, the man Governor Crist handpicked to run the Republican Party of F ...
Posted Friday, June 4th 2010 at 11:13AM
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MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - U.S. Democratic Senate candidate Kendrick Meek made national news this week as Time Magazine, NPR, Politico and the White House commented on Kendrick Meek's strong position in the race:
Time Magazine joined Kendrick on the tr ...
Posted Friday, June 4th 2010 at 11:04AM
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MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - Kendrick Meek, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, today issued a statement following reports that the jobless rate fell to 9.7%:
"Today's news makes me cautiously optimistic that we're turning the page from recession to re ...
Posted Friday, June 4th 2010 at 10:55AM
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127406040
One of the most closely watched elections this fall will be for the open Senate seat in Florida. Up to now, most of the attention has been on the Republican side, where the momentum of ...
Posted Friday, June 4th 2010 at 10:45AM
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