Jim Rosica

Jim RosicaSeptember 22, 2015
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Tony Marshall has left Florida’s nursing home advocacy group to become head of a similar organization in the Peach State. Marshall, who started on Monday, now is president and CEO of the Georgia Health Care Association (GHCA), according to a news release. The association is located in Stockbridge, about 20 miles south of Atlanta. He had been senior director of reimbursement at […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 21, 2015
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Gov. Rick Scott on Monday said he’ll ask lawmakers to put $19 million into next year’s state budget to treat mental illness and substance abuse. That amount includes “$12.8 million for Community Behavioral Health Services, $3.7 million to add more Community Action Treatment (CAT) teams and $2.8 million to expand Family Intensive Treatment (FIT) teams,” the Governor’s […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 21, 2015
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Here’s the good news: Florida International University College of Law had the highest bar exam passage rate of the state’s 11 law schools, according to results released Monday. But much of the rest of the results were otherwise depressed, as Florida joins a national trend of bar exam scores taking a nosedive. Scores from the state’s July examination […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 21, 2015
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A seemingly unlikely coalition of progressive groups, conservative organizations and businesses now have coalesced to support an anti-discrimination bill that historically hasn’t found traction in the Legislature. The bill (HB 45/SB 120), known as the “Florida Competitive Workforce Act,” aims to prohibit employment, retail and other discrimination against people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, amending the state’s […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 18, 2015
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3min275
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater this week turned in his budget request for 2016-17, asking for $311.2 million. “The agency’s most important budget priority was $45.3 million to upgrade FLAIR, the state’s three decade old accounting system,” LobbyTools reported. “The agency is in the second year of replacing FLAIR with the Florida Planning, Accounting and Ledger […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 18, 2015
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State House Republican Leader Dana Young has stood aside while other lawmakers tried to suss out how to regulate hired-car outfits such as  Uber and Lyft. But her time on the sidelines is over, she told FloridaPolitics.com on Friday. “I will be putting all my energy into this,” said Young, who has represented her Tampa district […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 18, 2015
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A measure filed Friday would limit Florida’s appellate judges and Supreme Court justices to 12 years on the bench. It’s the first formal initiative to come out of House Speaker-Designate Richard Corcoran‘s policy playbook. The joint resolution (SJR 322) was filed by a state senator, Elkton Republican Travis Hutson. State Rep. John Wood, a Winter Haven Republican, filed […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 18, 2015
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Florida’s unemployment rate continues to drop slightly. The August unemployment rate was 5.3 percent, compared with 5.5 percent in July. The state added 19,600 jobs last month, according to figures released Friday by the Department of Economic Opportunity. The jobless rate remains higher than the national rate of 5.1 percent with about 507,000 unemployed Floridians. […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 18, 2015
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Republican presidential candidate and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker criticized Wednesday night’s debate on CNN for being more focused on personality, rather than on policy differences among the candidates. Walker appeared Friday morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program. “I thought the American people were shortchanged,” Walker said of the three-hour-long debate. “I said, hey, we’re talking […]


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