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Mitch PerryFebruary 8, 2017

Patients, caregivers and activists offered emotional – and often searing – testimony Wednesday in a Tampa workshop held by the state office that regulates medical marijuana. In a standing-room-only meeting for the Office of Compassionate Use, they discussed proposed rules on medical marijuana that could go into effect later this year. The agency’s rule-making workshop […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 8, 2017

Florida sugar workers are the latest to come out strongly against Joe Negron’s Senate proposal to create a $2.4-billion, 60,000-acre reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee for Everglades water storage. In a joint letter sent Wednesday from Sugar Labor Management Committee, IAMAW District 166, Florida State Council of Machinists, and Local 2152 (Osceola & Okeelanta), union […]

Jim RosicaFebruary 8, 2017

The current owners of two Kraft Foods companies are going to court over a disputed $25 million in Florida corporate income tax. Intercontinental Brands LLC, which now owns Kraft Foods Global Brands, and Intercontinental Great Brands LLC, which owns Kraft Foods Holdings, on Tuesday sued the state Department of Revenue in Leon County Circuit Civil court. […]

Associated PressFebruary 7, 2017

The 2016 election is never far from President Donald Trump‘s mind. When Trump met Tuesday with a group of sheriffs from around the country, he saw not just lawmen but battleground states. Trump talked about his victories with officials from Pennsylvania and North Carolina. And when a sheriff from Minnesota introduced himself, Trump said if […]

Associated PressFebruary 7, 2017

Now that he’s left the White House, former Vice President Joe Biden will split his time between programs at the University of Delaware and the University of Pennsylvania. Officials announced Tuesday that Biden will establish a new domestic policy institute at the University of Delaware and will head a foreign policy institute for the University […]

Michael MolineFebruary 7, 2017

Gov. Rick Scott accused House leaders Tuesday of political posturing on Florida’s economic- and tourism-development programs. “It’s pretty clear. If you don’t care about people’s jobs, you must be caring about something else,” Scott told reporters following a Cabinet meeting. “What else can it be? How can anybody say, ‘We don’t want to help a poor family […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 7, 2017

For the coming year, the state of Florida is asking Washington D.C. to give more than $41 million for domestic security. That request is prompting one Pensacola Republican to ask if any amount from the feds can indeed make Floridians totally safe. “Is this the attitude of the American people and Floridians, that we’re willing […]

Associated PressFebruary 7, 2017

She tugged 13 envelopes from a cabinet above the stove, each one labeled with a different debt: the house payment, the student loans, the vacuum cleaner she bought on credit. Lydia Holt and her husband tuck money into these envelopes with each paycheck to whittle away at what they owe. They both earn about $10 […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 7, 2017

Last Monday night, the White House released a list of 78 attacks over two years that it says did not receive “the media attention they deserve.” The list included attacks that got worldwide blanket coverage, such as the Bataclan theater bombing in Paris, the Nice truck attack, and the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando. “All over Europe […]

Michael MolineFebruary 7, 2017

The Office of Insurance Regulation and an organization that proposes workers’ compensation premium rates have filed legal briefs refuting arguments that they calculated Florida’s recent 14.5 percent rate hike in violation of the Sunshine Law. James Fee, a Miami workers’ compensation attorney fighting the increase, and a group of press and press-freedom organizations, had argued […]

Headlines

At medical marijuana hearing in Tampa, citizens blast proposed rules

Florida Sugar Union blasts Joe Negron’s ‘job killing’ Lake O reservoir plan

Multimillion-dollar Florida tax battle heads to court

Donald Trump still fixated on 2016 election results

Post White House, Joe Biden collaborating with 2 universities

Rick Scott accuses House leadership of playing politics on economic development

Will there ever be enough $ to keep Floridians completely safe, asks GOP state senator

Voters await economic revival in a part of pro-Trump America

Contra White House assertion, Florida Gov. Rick Scott describes media coverage of Orlando shooting as “extensive”

Insurance office, NCCI refute Sunshine Law claims in workers’ comp appeal