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Mitch PerryMarch 23, 2017

(Update – The House of Representatives has announced that there will be no vote tonight on the GOP health care plan). In the hours left before Congress’ scheduled vote on the American Health Care Act, President Donald Trump and GOP House leadership were doing whatever it took to get the 216 votes necessary for passage of the bill. […]

Les NeuhausMarch 23, 2017

A sub-contracted case manager with the Florida Department of Children and Families was arrested for falsifying information regarding the well-being of children living alone, officials confirmed Thursday. Spokespeople for both DCF and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement confirmed Vanessa Arias, 33, was arrested Friday for lying on safety reports. “The department has no tolerance for […]

Associated PressMarch 23, 2017

The Latest on the upcoming health care vote in the House (all times local): 1:35 p.m. The chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus says there’s “no deal” on the GOP health care legislation after a meeting at the White House with President Donald Trump. The assertion from Congressman Mark Meadows of North Carolina throws […]

Peter SchorschMarch 23, 2017

Florida’s solar industry has embraced a comfortable narrative – they are the small-business “little guys” facing giant corporations, which care little about consumers and renewable energy. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. And it reveals a dark side to sunny solar. For example, The Daily Caller is reporting on an investigation by […]

Les NeuhausMarch 23, 2017

“It was Florida’s version of ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird,’” Sen. Gary Farmer said to the state’s Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday as he introduced his bill – SCR 920 – that would lead to the pardons of four men killed and accused of crimes they didn’t commit. It was July 16, 1949, before dawn. […]

Staff ReportsMarch 23, 2017

A top priority of Senate President Joe Negron’s took a hit this week, after Sen. Marco Rubio said a plan to build reservoirs wouldn’t get federal money and would wipe out farming communities. According to POLITICO Florida, Rubio said “there’s no federal money” for Negron’s proposed reservoirs. “We’re going to end up with nothing,” he […]

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 […]

Associated PressMarch 23, 2017

U.S. Treasury Department agents have recently obtained information about offshore financial transactions involving President Donald Trump‘s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, as part of a federal anti-corruption probe into his work in Eastern Europe, The Associated Press has learned. Information about Manafort’s transactions was turned over earlier this year to U.S. agents working in the […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMarch 23, 2017

A bevy of business groups have joined forces in opposition to a Senate proposal to lower the tax commercial rents by eliminating a tax credit benefiting another industry. Eight of the state’s leading business organizations — including Associated Industries of Florida, the Florida Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Business, and the Florida […]

Michael MolineMarch 22, 2017

The business community believes trial lawyers hold the upper hand in the Legislature for the first time in years. The business community is not happy about that. “Their bills are on rocket fuel and are moving through the process,” Mark Delegal, a partner at Holland & Knight, said during a panel discussion at the Florida […]

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Ryan Ray will join fellow in-the-know Democrats Beth Matuga and Ashley Walker for the Monday luncheon.

American Bridge slams Mario Diaz-Balart for ‘selling out’ to support GOP health care plan

Five children used candle for ‘light and heat’ after child welfare worker ignored calls for help

House Freedom Caucus chairman says there’s ‘no deal’ on the GOP health care legislation after White House meeting

Questionable practices, fraud, hidden costs: The dark side of Florida’s solar industry

Dark chapter in Florida’s racist history moves one more step to formal apologies, pardons

Report: Marco Rubio says ‘there’s no federal money’ for reservoir south of Lake O

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

U.S. probes banking of ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort

AIF, Florida Chamber, other business groups join forces to oppose Senate tax proposal

Chamber laments the rise of trial bar’s influence with Florida Legislature