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Kenney gets chance, but public gets little clue - JDC
Judicial oversight group cuts another deal.  The agency that monitors judicial conduct in Florida keeps too many secrets. That has become clear again in the case of a St. Lucie County judge.
Four years ago, three colleagues accused Circuit Judge Scott Kenney of drinking on the job. Not until last year, however, did the Judicial Qualifications Commission -- the state's oversight group -- announce that it was filing two charges of misconduct against Judge Kenney. More startling, the JQC had warned him about the allegations in April 1999, and he had entered an alcohol treatment program. The public had not known.

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Most qualified,' but out- The Legislature took the politics out of the Public Service Commission in 1978 but didn't kill it. Politics moved from elections that were manipulated by regulated utilities to a nominating council made of political appointees. That's why Michael Palecki won't get a second term on the five-member PSC. 9/28/02

Coziness at the PSC
Another round of meddling by legislative leaders has cast a cloud over nominations for the commission responsible for regulating Florida's utilities... 9/18/02

King feels heat for PSC meddling
By Mary Ellen Klas, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Incoming Senate President Jim King now says he goofed when he told a state panel whom to choose. 9/17/02

Fight over access rates comes down to the wire
The Florida Public Service Commission will decide today how much BellSouth Corp. can charge its competitors to use its phone network, resolving an intensely contested issue that has polarized the giant communications company and its rivals. 9/7/02

PSC should expand local phone service
The interstate long-distance telephone market is deliciously competitive, if a little dizzying sometimes given the recurring choices in quality of service and cents per minute of conversation. 9/7/02

Florida should answer the call for more phone competition
Arriving in many Florida voters' mailboxes this week was an unimaginative, negative piece of campaign literature criticizing several individual legislators for their vote to open the state's market to increased competition to provide local phone service. 9/7/02

 

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