Emails & Opinions

Peter SchorschMarch 1, 2018

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Ana Ceballos, Daniel McAuliffe, and Jim Rosica. Even though it’s the issue nearly everyone has lost interest in, the House’s gambling bill will be on the floor at the end of the week. One amendment had been filed as […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 28, 2018

Sixty Days — A prime-time look at the 2018 Legislative Session The Last 24 Good Wednesday evening, the last of February. Funding cuts have already affected baby deliveries in one rural area, and a bill on the vacation rental industry seems ready for a funeral. Condolences: Sixty Days doesn’t send flowers, but will donate to […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 28, 2018

There is widespread flu activity from this season’s flu outbreak all across the continental U.S. – something that has not happened in the U.S. Center for Disease Control & Prevention’s 13 years of tracking the spread of influenza. This year’s flu is also particularly contagious and can be spread more easily just by breathing rather […]

Joe HendersonFebruary 28, 2018

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Some good ideas about gun control came out of the Legislature this week. Arming teachers isn’t one of them, though. The proposal in the House Appropriations Committee to spend $400 million and put resource officers in every school, beef up mental health treatment, and reinforce buildings to make them safer – all good. As always […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 28, 2018

Senate Appropriations Chair Rob Bradley is undertaking something seen too rarely in the Legislative process: He is actually trying to clean up and improve Florida’s health care financing policy. Bradley, an Orange Park Republican, intends to do this by finally eliminating “auto-payments,” a payment scheme that Gov. Rick Scott described in 2015 as arbitrary, inconsistent and bearing no relationship […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 28, 2018

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Ana Ceballos, Daniel McAuliffe, and Jim Rosica. Happiest of birthday wishes Michelle Todd Schorsch, the woman who changed my life seven years ago after a toast on a pirate ship. She is strikingly intelligent and thoroughly considerate and caring. She […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 27, 2018

Sixty Days — A prime-time look at the 2018 Legislative Session The Last 24 Good Tuesday evening. We have allocations, the big blocks of dough needed to start budget conference, and a House member is getting sued for blocking a constituent on social media. Don’t worry: Sixty Days still follows you. Here’s your nightly rundown. […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 27, 2018

In his bid for Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis can always count on at least one unwavering cheerleader — his dad, Ron Daniel DeSantis of Dunedin. According to a post on the Facebook group page “Ron DeSantis for Governor Pinellas County,” the elder DeSantis “talked to many people who want to support my son for Governor” […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 27, 2018

With increasingly crowded courts and jails, few will disagree that Florida’s justice system needs improvement. Nevertheless, are statistics — and removing the human element — really the best path to reform? Among the sweeping measures moving through the Florida Legislature is a proposal for a “pretrial risk assessment” tool, which is designed to give an […]

Joe HendersonFebruary 27, 2018

Today’s question: Name a place where the right to privacy apparently matters more than your right not to get splattered on the road because another motorist couldn’t resist texting while driving. Why, we know the answer to that. It’s the Florida Legislature! For the latest example we look to the Senate, where a bill that […]

Emails & Opinions
One of several proposed designs for Florida's new Margaritaville license plates. Image via the office of Rep. Linda Chaney.

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics – 3.1.18

Sixty Days for 2.28.18 — A prime-time look at the 2018 Legislative Session

R. Scott Shalley: Allowing pharmacists to administer vital flu shots saves lives

Joe Henderson: Arming teachers is bad, bad, bad idea

Rob Bradley’s fairness doctrine

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics – 2.28.18

Sixty Days for 2.27.18 — A prime-time look at the 2018 Legislative Session

Ron DeSantis’ dad says Democrats are clamoring to support his son. That’s cute.

Are risk assessment tools — justice by algorithm — best for criminal justice reform?

Joe Henderson: Texting while driving bill may be dead …. again