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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 […]

William PatrickFebruary 7, 2017

President Donald Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, sparked a predictably hostile response from Democrats. But Gorsuch’s record on criminal justice reform offers a rare opportunity for bipartisan agreement. Gorsuch tipped his hand at a gathering of conservative attorneys in Washington, D.C., three years ago […]

Associated PressFebruary 6, 2017

Attorneys for a Miami woman accused of playing a key role in the killing of a Florida State University law professor are trying once again to get her out of jail. An attorney for Katherine Magbanua on Monday requested that a Florida appeals court allow her to be released on bail. The motion with the […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 6, 2017

A group of landowners in the Everglades Agricultural Area are telling the state officials that selling land south of lake Okeechobee do nothing to fix problems they believe are caused north of the lake. Senate President Joe Negron is pushing a Senate proposal seeks to create a $2.4-billion, 60,000-acre reservoir for Everglades water storage. If […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 6, 2017

Last month, Marco Rubio had harsh words for Rex Tillerson when he came before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as Donald Trump‘s pick for Secretary of State. But the Florida senator ultimately went ahead and supported the former ExxonMobil CEO anyway. Now protesters are hoping Rubio won’t cave on Betsy DeVos. With the Tillerson turnaround fresh […]

Jim RosicaFebruary 6, 2017

A Tallahassee woman is suing a Mexican restaurant after she fell off its donkey statue and broke her back, according to a lawsuit. Kimberly Bonn‘s complaint, filed last week in Leon County Circuit Civil court, said she was having dinner at El Jalisco Southwood restaurant on Aug. 31, 2015. Afterward, she got up on a “life-size statue […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 6, 2017

An online poll of 600 Florida residents conducted by Florida Atlantic University shows that by a 52-36 percent margin, Floridians do not want the Trump administration to cut off funding to sanctuary cities. And a plurality – 46-38 percent – don’t want the U.S. Justice Dept. to take any legal action against sanctuary cities. However, the same […]

Jim RosicaFebruary 6, 2017

Former Florida Bar president Hank Coxe, former state Sen. Arthenia Joyner and former federal prosecutor Roberto Martinez are Supreme Court Chief Justice Jorge Labarga‘s three picks to the Constitution Revision Commission. Labarga announced his choices Monday during a press conference in the courthouse’s rotunda in Tallahassee. They now are the first names known to be on […]

Headlines

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

SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch and ‘over-criminalization’

Woman tied to murder of FSU law professor wants out of jail

Everglades landowners ‘not willing sellers’ for Joe Negron’s Lake O reservoir

Activists march at Marco Rubio’s Tampa office, calling to reject Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary

Donkey statue leads to alleged injury, lawsuit in Tallahassee

Online poll shows Floridians support sanctuary cities

Jorge Labarga names three to Constitution Revision Commission