Why not allow the snowbirds who paid for airfare, hotels and spring training games the chance to see him?

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But now Governor Mark Dayton wants to tax the snowbirds even if they are no longer legally state residents.

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They had hoped for a bigger crowd, "but a lot of the snowbirds weren't here yet, " said Janet Russo, 63, a retired postal clerk whose late husband carried mail in Medford, Mass.

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Certainly, it appears form the survey that those snowbirds might have something in the way of discretionary funds.

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In the meantime, Cape Coral's fate will depend on how many snowbirds migrate south for the winter, and how much they spend when they get there.

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The one place I have seen dentistry price-driven is in the dentist-filled towns in Mexico, just south of the U.S. border, where snowbirds flock to have budget work done.

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Once he found Balza and had a team to sell, McAloose reached out to the athletic department's target demographic: Midwestern snowbirds.

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Snowbirds are usually eager to get away from the cold, ice, snow and darkness, and work on their tans beneath palm trees.

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Florida voters approved property tax relief to low-income seniors (Amendment 11) and for veterans and their surviving spouses (Amendments 2 and 9) but rejected a freebie (Amendment 4) that would have cut in half from 10% to 5% the cap on annual changes to property tax assessments for non-homesteaders aka snowbirds.

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