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Scott PowersMarch 24, 2017

Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has pulled together a bipartisan group of Florida congressmen to sign a letter urging the administration of President Donald Trump to not permit off-shore oil near Florida’s Gulf Coast. In a letter sent Friday to U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Nelson and 16 members of Florida’s congressional delegation urged the […]

Scott PowersMarch 23, 2017

After a hearing on a humanitarian crisis with millions of lives at stake in northeast Africa, U.S. Rep. Marco Rubio joined a bipartisan group of senators Thursday asking Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to intervene by leading an “urgent and comprehensive” diplomatic effort. Rubio and eight other senators signed a letter Thursday to President Donald Trump‘s secretary of […]

Scott PowersMarch 23, 2017

Republican State Rep. Bob Cortes has decided he likes what he’s doing in the Florida House too much to want to run against Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy in the next congressional election. Cortes, of Altamonte Springs, had been seen as a leading potential GOP candidate in Florida’s 7th Congressional District, which the GOP has […]

Scott PowersMarch 23, 2017

In January, when she took office, new Denver District Attorney Beth McCann reaffirmed her campaign promise on an extraordinary policy: There would be no death penalty cases in her district under her watch. The reaction? Virtually nothing. No expressions of shock or outrage from other politicians, no calls for cases to be stripped from her, […]

Scott PowersMarch 23, 2017

Calling attention to the potential of lost health insurance benefits to disabled, young, low-income and other people under the proposed American Health Care Act, a coalition of mostly progressive political activists asked Central Floridians to urge members of Congress to reform, not replace the Affordable Care Act. Their call, outside the Orlando offices of Republican […]

Scott PowersMarch 23, 2017

Florida voters can expect to receive mailers from a veterans group with Republican ties urging them to urge Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson to vote to confirm Neil Gorsuch as a Supreme Court justice. The group Veterans Concerned for America, run by a former GOP state finance chairman, is making a second round of mailings to […]

Scott PowersMarch 22, 2017

Insisting that the people on Puerto Rico can endure no more austerity measures, a coalition of Puerto Rican, labor, and religious groups marched in Kissimmee Wednesday to protest the federal plan being pushed to resolve the commonwealth’s debt crisis. “Puerto Rico Stands at the edge of a precipice,” declared Wanda Ramos, a leader of the […]

Scott PowersMarch 22, 2017

Florida’s Congressional delegation is united in its position urging President Donald Trump to fully fund Everglades restoration and to do so quickly – but a small schism has opened between Republican U.S. Reps. Brian Mast and Francis Rooney over whether there needs to be another task force. Last week Mast, of Palm City, and and […]

Scott PowersMarch 22, 2017

A bill that would require elected city officials to file detailed financial disclosures got thumbs up Wednesday morning from the Florida House Government Accountability Committee. House Bill 7021, introduced by Republican state Rep. Larry Metz of Groveland, would require mayors, city council members and other municipal elected officials in perhaps half of Florida’s cities to […]

Scott PowersMarch 22, 2017

State Sen. Linda Stewart is pushing the creation of an “Orlando United” specialty license plate to commemorate the city’s unity in the wake of last summer’s Pulse nightclub massacre, and to raise funds for mental health organizations. Stewart, the Orlando Democrat who introduced Senate Bill 1232, will get her first chance to present it today […]

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Bill Nelson, bipartisan Florida Congress members urge drilling ban in Gulf

Marco Rubio, bipartisan Senate group call for U.S. help for starving North Africa

Bob Cortes: I’m not running for Congress (yet)

If Aramis Ayala had been in Denver, people might have shrugged

Orlando activists urge Republicans to reform, not replace ACA

Veterans group’s mailers target Bill Nelson in Neil Gorsuch vote

Puerto Rican alliance protests austerity measures on island

Francis Rooney says Everglades doesn’t need a task force right now

Bill would require city officials to file state financial disclosures

Linda Stewart pushing ‘Orlando United’ specialty license plate