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Ana CeballosFebruary 21, 2018

A Senate panel on Tuesday cleared a bill that could bring changes to a state law that has allowed insurance companies to avoid payouts to undocumented injured workers and has already led the state referring a handful of cases to federal immigration authorities. “The bill is designed to ensure workers injured on the job to […]

Ana CeballosFebruary 20, 2018

Republican state Rep. Shawn Harrison fired his aide on Tuesday after he said two students who survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting were “actors that travel to various crisis (sic) when they happen.” “I am appalled at and strongly denounce his comments about the Parkland students,” Harrison tweeted about Benjamin Kelly. “I am again […]

Ana CeballosFebruary 20, 2018

Clad in black, students who survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting walked the halls of the Florida Capitol on Tuesday, going in and out of lawmakers’ offices asking them to pass gun control measures. Each held a clipboard with their itinerary for the day and had a somber look on their face, still […]

Ana CeballosFebruary 20, 2018

Six days after the deadliest high school shooting in the state’s history, a law enforcement panel convened Tuesday in Tallahassee at Gov. Rick Scott’s request to discuss ideas that can prevent future campus massacres. “I have a wife at home that won’t send our kids to school,” Coconut Creek Police Chief Albert “Butch” Arenal said. […]

Ana CeballosFebruary 20, 2018

Students who survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas mass shooting are traveling to Tallahassee on Tuesday in search of legislative action that can prevent a future massacre like the one they experienced. Meetings with Attorney General Pam Bondi, House Speaker Richard Corcoran, Senate President Joe Negron and other legislative leaders have been set up for Wednesday, […]

Ana CeballosFebruary 20, 2018

Saying it is time to leave his seat and serve Florida in the future in a “different capacity,” U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney announced Monday he will not run for re-election in 2018. The unexpected move opens up Florida’s 17th Congressional District this election year, a traditionally red district in the nation’s largest swing state. “After what […]

Ana CeballosFebruary 19, 2018

House Speaker Richard Corcoran is doubling down on his tough-on-immigration talk with a new television ad that calls for more deportations. The television ad is less incendiary than his first one, which was hcriticized by Democrats for portraying immigrants who came into the country illegally as a danger to Floridians. Records show the new media […]

Ana CeballosFebruary 17, 2018

Thirteen Russian nationals who posed as Americans in social media and courted pro-Trump political groups in Florida are accused of criminally interfering with the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, according to an indictment unsealed Friday. The Justice Department’s special counsel announced the indictment against the group of Russian social media trolls and operatives on Friday. But […]

Ana CeballosFebruary 16, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott on Friday called on FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign after the agency admitted to mishandling a January tip that the 19-year-old accused of gunning down 17 people in Parkland was potentially planning a school shooting. “Seventeen innocent people are dead and acknowledging a mistake isn’t going to cut it,” Scott said. […]

Ana CeballosFebruary 16, 2018

A day after 17 people were gunned down at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Republican Sen. Greg Steube scheduled a hearing for a gun bill he is co-sponsoring that would allow school officials to designate certain people to carry concealed weapons on campus. School principals and school district superintendents would be able to choose one […]

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Mike Johnson. Image via AP.

Once stalled in Senate, bill aiding injured immigrant workers advances

Shawn Harrison fires aide for falsely calling Parkland students ‘actors’

As Parkland students call for gun control, motion to ban assault rifles fails

Florida sheriffs propose more school resource officers, arming teachers with guns

Parkland students begin trip to Tallahassee in search of legislative action

‘Rooney out’ — Tom Rooney not running for re-election

Richard Corcoran puts more money behind new immigration tv ad

Indicted Russians to pro-Trump groups: ‘If we lose Florida, we lose America’

Gov. Rick Scott calls on FBI director to resign

Day after school shooting, Senate panel sets hearing for gun bill