Emails & Opinions

Peter SchorschJanuary 18, 2017

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry and Jim Rosica. (MOSTLY) QUIET IN FLORIDA AS PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION APPROACHES If you think it’s slow this week, you aren’t alone. The Florida House and Senate committee rooms are dark, with lawmakers taking a bye […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 18, 2017

Since the early 1980s, when the state Agency for Health Care Administration conducted its last major overhaul of the Medicaid payment system for nursing homes, the quality of care in Florida nursing homes has vastly improved. Although there are still exceptions, Florida is no longer home to the flood of nursing home horror stories that […]

Peter SchorschJanuary 17, 2017

To the eleven or twelve people (thanks Ed Moore!) who watched this past week’s edition of The Usual Suspects, the public affairs program which airs in north Florida, I apologize for repeating myself, but… We will know which direction the 2017 Legislative Session is headed by the first day. That’s because that’s the deadline House Speaker Richard […]

Peter SchorschJanuary 17, 2017

The Senate is primed to hear a bill that would repeal the cap on the amount of money tobacco companies have to put up as appellate bonds. Sen. Greg Steube, a Sarasota Republican, and Rep. Danny Burgess, a Zephyrhills Republican, have filed measures for their respective chambers for the 2017 Legislative Session. Giving this bill a committee hearing is the […]

Joe HendersonJanuary 17, 2017

Over the weekend, Florida Democrats elected Miami rich guy Stephen Bittel to lead their party. The choice was controversial and left many members screaming that Bittel is the wrong man at the wrong time. They have their reasons, I guess. But, let me ask a simple question: Whom would be the right person? The political […]

Florence SnyderJanuary 16, 2017

Sasha Obama wasn’t in Chicago to see her dad’s farewell address, and the internet went crazy at the deprivation of its Right to Know how she reacted to the president’s touching tribute to his wife and children. Turns out the 15-year-old Second Daughter was back in Washington, studying and getting a good night’s sleep ahead […]

Martin DyckmanJanuary 16, 2017

If it is to be believed, as Donald Trump evidently does, that government is just another business, then Rex Tillerson is a plausible nominee for secretary of state. Hasn’t he been running one of the most powerful and profitable businesses in this corner of the universe? But government is not a business. The duty of […]

Peter SchorschJanuary 15, 2017

Former state Rep. and Financial Regulation Commissioner Tom Grady has touched off a lawsuit between the state’s insurance and financial regulators and a San Francisco-based software concern. Zenefits, which describes itself as “a technology company … that integrates the administration of human resources and employee benefits,” filed suit in Leon County Circuit Civil court […]

Peter SchorschJanuary 15, 2017

As his second term in office winds down, Rick Scott should be considering his legacy as Florida governor, particularly if he wants to run for the U.S. Senate in 2018. It’s that same legacy that makes Scott’s recent decision “bizarre,” at least in the eyes of The Capitolist’s Brian Burgess. Burgess refers to Adam Hollingsworth, […]

Florence SnyderJanuary 14, 2017

In Palm Beach County, millions of pounds of vegetables are unpicked, plowed under, and rotting in the fields not far away from large populations of undernourished children. The weather this growing season was everything it needed to be for a bountiful harvest Florida’s growers can be proud of. But the “agricultural economics” that forced growers to […]

Emails & Opinions
Buccaneers QB Teddy Bridgewater. Image via AP.

Sunburn for 1.18.17 – Florida goes to the Inauguration; Matt Gaetz wins skydiving case; DOH releases pot rules; Jon Costello’s new colleagues

Steve Bahmer: Nursing home care in Florida has come a long way in the last 30 years

The question confronting Richard Corcoran: Will he stick by his principles or will he p*ssy out?

Senate will hear tobacco appellate bond cap repealer; a sop to trial lawyers?

Stephen Bittel for Florida Democrats, what do you have to lose?

We missed you, Sasha, but you were in the right place

Donald Trump, government is not a business. Reject Rex Tillerson.

Takeaways from Tallahassee for 1.15.17 – Trade secrets

Brian Burgess: Adam Hollingsworth appointment could be blip on Rick Scott’s legacy

Palm Beach County veggie-pocalyse requires #FreshThinkingFromFlorida