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Guest AuthorApril 28, 2017

One year ago, I was riding my bicycle down A1A. Out of nowhere, a woman driving a 1988 LTD hit me going 45 miles per hour. The force of the collision sent me flying 60 feet. I landed face first. The next thing I remember is being rolled into the hospital. My lip was ripped […]

Guest AuthorApril 27, 2017

With the House version of workers’ compensation reform, our state legislators are dangerously close to repeating the mistakes of the past. We cannot have a lopsided system that creates a chasm between the army of lawyers and executives who represent workers’ comp insurance companies and the injured worker who needs a competent lawyer to fight […]

Guest AuthorApril 27, 2017

Florida’s Everglades is an American iconic national park known and revered throughout the world for its biodiversity. Floridians, regardless where they live, must join together to protect and restore this treasure before the Everglades reaches a point of no return. The Everglades is home to thousands of plant and animal species and draws millions of […]

Guest AuthorApril 26, 2017

The world around us is constantly changing as technology evolves. Investing in high-tech jobs can set Florida up to succeed far into the future while providing people with high-wage jobs that will keep the American dream alive and well in our great state. Other states have already committed to investments in the future, with millions […]

Guest AuthorApril 22, 2017

Reforming Florida’s workers’ compensation system has been one of the most contentious issues discussed this legislative session. Numerous players have weighed in on this often-complex legislation, including representatives from big business, corporate insurers, and the legal community. However, the “Grand Bargain” – and its implications for the workers this system was meant to protect – seems to be forgotten […]

Guest AuthorApril 22, 2017

In every corner of our state, severe drought conditions have made Florida a tinderbox. Roughly 100 wildfires are currently burning about 75,000 acres, and our Florida Forest Service wildland firefighters are working side-by-side with partnering agencies to battle these fires and protect life, property and wildlife. On Friday, Collier County had to evacuate approximately 7,000 […]

Guest AuthorApril 21, 2017

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On a sunny day in Florida, I watched the American flag rise and fly over hundreds of acres of solar cells. It was an amazing experience to think the million panels I was looking at in Manatee County were replacing energy from conventional fuel combustion plants. Yet this solar field feeding directly into the power grid […]

Guest AuthorApril 20, 2017

William Forrester was 52-years-old, on disability, and suffering from numerous health problems when he was arrested in 2008. His offense? A pharmacist filled a fraudulent prescription for 120 oxycodone pills. When he came back the next month to have another prescription filled, which was also fraudulent, the pharmacist called the doctor, who told her he […]

Guest AuthorApril 19, 2017

Florida has a once in a generation opportunity to fix our “rigged” political system via the Constitution Revision Commission. If you’re like me, you don’t need some expert to tell you about the adverse effects of gerrymandering. Acrimonious partisan rhetoric, high-dollar campaign financing, and a terrible closed primary system locking out 3.1 million independent voters […]

Guest AuthorApril 19, 2017

A lot of people talk about jobs. How to create them, how to save them, or how to move them. No matter what side of the “jobs argument” you are on, one thing is certain. There can be no job without a worker to perform that job. That worker is – normally – a human […]

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Paul Davidson: Florida Senate needs to act on auto insurance reform

Mike Williams: Meaningful workers’ comp reform must protect Florida’s workers

Bob Martinez, Dominic Calabro: The time is now to address the Everglades crisis

Pat Neal: Florida must commit to the future and invest in high-tech jobs

Kim Syfrett: Senate workers’ comp plan provides balance for businesses, workers

Adam Putnam: Florida is a tinderbox, Florida Forest Service works around the clock

Eric Draper: Florida making smart progress on solar

Mark Holden: A ‘safety valve’ needed for drug mandatory minimum sentencing

Steve Hough: Florida’s chance to fix its ‘rigged’ election system

Danny Burgess: It’s vital Florida workers get care they need