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Members of Florida’ Capitol Press Corps joined Senate President Bill Albritton to dedicate a plaque Monday to honor deceased longtime reporter Bill Cotterell<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Cynthia Fuller, Cotterell’s wife, spoke on the Senate floor surrounded by family members and capitol staff and prominent lawmakers, including past Senate Presidents Kathleen Passidomo and Don Gaetz.<\/p>\n

“It’s the people that were important to Bill,” she said. “The integrity of remembering that a name on a printed page was some person affected by the rest of the words on the page.”<\/p>\n

Cotterell spent 45 years as a reporter, and continued to write a political column until he died last month. He was 82. <\/p>\n

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