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Fishkind Commentaries: Two Competing Ideas for Florida's Budget

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The 2015 Legislative Sessions is revving up, and Florida Republicans continue to control both chambers of the State’s legislature. A new Senate President and House Speaker were elected earlier this month, and committee hearings begin in January.

Despite party unity between the legislature and the Governor’s office, 90.7’s economic analyst Hank Fishkind says there are two competing ideas for next year’s State budget.

Nicole came to Central Florida to attend Rollins College and started working for Orlando’s ABC News Radio affiliate shortly after graduation. She joined Central Florida Public Media in 2010. As a field reporter, news anchor and radio show host in the City Beautiful, she has covered everything from local arts to national elections, from extraordinary hurricanes to historic space flights, from the people and procedures of Florida’s justice system to the changing face of the state’s economy.