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Phil AmmannMarch 9, 2015

Florida’s largest electric utility is asking the state for permission to cut energy bills for most of its 4.7 million customers. Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) today filed updated fuel cost projections for 2015 with the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC), requesting to reduce customer rates beginning May 1, thanks primarily to projected savings on natural […]

Phil AmmannMarch 9, 2015

Florida’s largest electric utility is asking the state for permission to cut energy bills for most of its 4.7 million customers. Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) today filed updated fuel cost projections for 2015 with the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC), requesting to reduce customer rates beginning May 1, thanks primarily to projected savings on natural […]

Phil AmmannMarch 9, 2015

One of the truthful boasts in Gov. Rick Scott‘s curiously brief speech to the Legislature this past Tuesday may not have been good news to all who heard it. “We are at a 43-year low in our crime rate,” he said. In fact, by 2013 crime in Florida had fallen 60 percent from its high […]

Phil AmmannMarch 9, 2015

One of the truthful boasts in Gov. Rick Scott‘s curiously brief speech to the Legislature this past Tuesday may not have been good news to all who heard it. “We are at a 43-year low in our crime rate,” he said. In fact, by 2013 crime in Florida had fallen 60 percent from its high […]

Phil AmmannMarch 9, 2015

Floridians for Fair Business Practices (FFBP) released a new video Monday arguing two reasons Florida should repeal its “outdated” Prohibition-era liquor-purchase separation laws: convenience and common sense. “Convenience” is the second in a series of FFBP digital ads available on YouTube. Florida is one of the 20 states with a separation law between liquor stores […]

Phil AmmannMarch 9, 2015

On Friday, Gov. Rick Scott announced 10 appointments — including four reappointments — to a variety of state regulatory boards. Board of Professional Geologists Scott announced the appointments of Norman Meeks and Stanley Warden to the Board of Professional Geologists, responsible for licensing and regulating the practice of professional geology. Both are for terms ending […]

Phil AmmannMarch 7, 2015

Red-light Cameras (RLC) caught violations by nearly one million Floridians last year, creating quite the revenue stream for municipalities across the state, according to a new report Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. As reported by Lloyd Dunkelberger of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, of 941,000 violations issued to motorists, a majority of them (648,000) […]

Phil AmmannMarch 7, 2015

It’s a little like dogs and cats living together – Florida’s largest electric utility and environmentalists on the same side of an issue. But here it is. Sierra Club of Florida is applauding a move by Florida Power and Light asking the state for permission to buy a Jacksonville coal-fired power plant with the intent […]

Phil AmmannMarch 6, 2015

As Hillary Clinton edges closer to a presidential run, controversy over her use of a private email account during her tenure as Secretary of State dominated headlines and engulfed Washington. Editorial cartoonist Bill Day, in his newest work, riffs on the “scandal” enveloping the former Secretary of State and prospective 2016 White House candidate, which […]

Phil AmmannMarch 6, 2015

As Hillary Clinton edges closer to a presidential run, controversy over her use of a private email account during her tenure as Secretary of State dominated headlines and engulfed Washington. Editorial cartoonist Bill Day, in his newest work, riffs on the “scandal” enveloping the former Secretary of State and prospective 2016 White House candidate, which […]

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Florida Power & Light asks PSC to lower consumer energy bills

Florida Power & Light asks PSC to lower consumer energy bills

Martin Dyckman: Florida's private prison biz suffers as crime drops

Martin Dyckman: Florida’s private prison biz suffers as crime drops

FFBP video calls for common sense, convenience in repealing alcohol separation law

Gov. Rick Scott announces 10 state board appointments

Red light cameras, with $105M in revenue last year, remain controversial

Sierra Club of Florida applauds FPL plan to buy coal-fired plant

Bill Day's latest: Hillary Clinton email woes as Benghazi "phishing bait"

Bill Day’s latest: Hillary Clinton email woes as Benghazi “phishing bait”

Florida politics had 11 questions before federal qualifying week. Here are the answers.