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When Florida journalists and lawmakers alike need complex state budget questions answered, they turn to one organization: Florida TaxWatch.

The non-profit government watchdog has been breaking down the budget, finding waste and making policy suggestions for three decades. Today the Governor and state Cabinet honored the group’s Chief Executive Officer Dominic Calabro for his 30 years of service. Calabro says of all his years at TaxWatch, this is the most important.

“The need for what TaxWatch does, to help find thoughtful, responsible cost-savings, eliminate waste and inefficiency in government, has never been more important,” said Calabro.

Calabro began working at TaxWatch in 1980, was named senior research analyst two years later and in 1986 he took the reins.