Word: aronberg
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State senator Dave Aronberg, who represents part of South Florida and is sponsoring anti-pill-mill legislation, acknowledged that money is an unsolved matter. "There are grants to get it going. Then we have to figure out a recurring funding mechanism," he says. Action must be taken, he says, because anyone can end up ensnared by addiction, given how easy it is to get pills. "I get all these stories - people telling me about their brother dying, their sister dying," he says. "These are heads of families who end up in a terrible situation because of a workplace injury...
...kind of residency-restriction arms race that Florida let local governments wage. "The safety of Floridians has suffered as local politicians have tried to one-up each other with policies that have resulted in colonies of homeless sex offenders left to roam our streets," says state senator Dave Aronberg, a Democrat running for state attorney general. The excessive rules, he adds, "have the effect of driving offenders underground and off law enforcement's radar." Aronberg is co-sponsoring a new bill that would establish uniform statewide residency rules fixed at 1,750 feet - studies show that in many cities, over...