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Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 3.2.21 The Legislative Session is here, and Florida Influencers believe that come April 30, Gov. Ron DeSantis will be the big winner. Florida Politics asked the state’s top consultants, lobbyists and political minds who stands to have the best Legislative Session and 43% picked the Governor. His believers include more than half of Republican Influencers, with just 27% of Democrats saying he’s their early favorite. For the minority party, that honor goes to Senate President Wilton Simpson, albeit by a nar...

A former Peoria-area television-news anchorman died earlier this week. Brian Christie was residing in San Diego when he died Sunday, according to a Facebook post from friend and former co-worker Greg Todd. The FTVLive website also reported Christie's death. Christie long had been ill with non-alcoholic liver disease. On a San Diego news website, he chronicled his diagnosis and outlook. From 1985 until 2001, Christie was a primary news anchor for CNN and subsidiary channels. Before that, in the early-to-mid-1980s, he shared an anchor desk with Clark Smith at what then was known as WRAU-TV (19)...

Wine Conferences East of the Rockies Go Virtual in 2021   With the Covid-19 crisis still limiting or preventing in-person gatherings, many wine conferences and educational programs have changed to virtual schedules for enology, viticultural, and wine marketing/business meetings. While online sessions are obviously not the same as seeing and talking with speakers and other attendees in person, there are some advantages to “attending” virtual programs. Conference organizers have the option to include presenters based on their knowledge on topic under discussion, not how much it wou...

Nighttime hikers celebrate the new year at Quarry Hill Parks proved a solace for people in a difficult year, and a popular place to ring in 2021. 8:47 pm, Dec. 31, 2020 × Lauren Nichols and Brandon Smith walk along a path lit by luminaries as part of Quarry Hill Nature Center's first Friday Night Lights event with their children Griffin, 4, and Georgeie, 1, in a carrier on Brandon's back, on New Year's Eve Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, in Rochester. (Joe Ahlquist / jahlquist@postbulletin.com) How do you send off a year few people will regret seeing in the rear-view mirror? F...

Adventist Health/Rideout has been accepting applications from nursing students of nearby colleges for nursing assistant positions at the hospital.