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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Florida's leadership dithers as state sinks, St Petersburg Times

August 25, 2008

The financial crisis that grips Florida government now knows no modern precedent, but nearly as alarming as the plunging forecasts are the numbingly casual reactions in the capital. As schools and universities and courts and hospitals fall into a deepening budgetary sinkhole, state officials are offering little more than shallow platitudes.

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