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Christine Jordan SextonApril 14, 2015

A Senate health care spending panel on Tuesday gave the nod to a telehealth bill but House Health and Human Services Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Brodeur says he’s not sure the Legislature needs to address the issue. The Senate health care spending panel tagged on two late filed amendments to the bill, CS/SB 478, by […]

Melissa RossApril 14, 2015

North Florida U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, says in an email to constituents that President Barack Obama is engaged in a “naked concession to the Castro dictatorship” by removing Cuba from the administration’s list of state sponsors of terrorism. “The removal of Cuba from the list of […]

Guest AuthorApril 14, 2015

Florida has successfully operated tax-credit education scholarships for 13 years. More than 70,000 underprivileged students across Florida benefit from such scholarships, which provide important school choice options. The students — whose household incomes are only 5 percent above the poverty level, two-thirds of whom are black or Hispanic, and the majority of whom live in […]

Guest AuthorApril 14, 2015

In the political hothouse that is Florida, the number of people who actually believe that Marco Rubio would be a better president of the United States than Jeb Bush would fit into, well, Freedom Hall in Miami. But the political cognoscenti who fear Marco’s presidential candidacy is just the opening gambit in a run for […]

Daniel TilsonApril 14, 2015

Marco Rubio is nothing if not…ambitious. Some would say, a “climber.” Little more than midway through his first term as Florida’s junior U.S. senator, Rubio wants to move on up to the Oval Office. He made the official announcement this week at Miami’s Freedom Tower. Watching it, I remembered the last time I was in […]

Guest AuthorApril 14, 2015

Early last year, Jeb Bush had a small gathering at the Biltmore in Coral Gables for a very private, serious chat about running for president in 2016. One of his top advisers, Mike Murphy, was a tad surprised to run into someone he knew as he waited for cab to leave go to the airport. […]

Guest AuthorApril 14, 2015

With four children at home, I know a thing or two about how to have fun. That is why I started an amusement rental business. We cater to the pint-sized crowd and bring fun bounce houses to birthday parties and events across the state. Birthday parties are great memories for children but they do not […]

Mitch PerryApril 14, 2015

Now that he’s a presidential candidate, Marco Rubio just doesn’t issue news releases on subjects like the Obama administration’s announcement Tuesday that it will remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. No, now the U.S. Senator from Florida now delivers his choice comments — or at least this one — via a […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 14, 2015

The federal government on Tuesday sent a letter Deputy Medicaid Director Justin Senior saying that expanding Medicaid to low income uninsured Floridians is a better use of tax dollars than establishing Medicaid supplemental spending formulas such as the Low Income Pool. Department of Health and Human Services Acting Director Vikki Wachino said in the letter […]

Melissa RossApril 14, 2015

Former South Florida Congressman and Fox News contributor Allen West is sounding the alarm about Muslim immigrants, saying the U.S. is absorbing about 100,000 eannually and that the State Department “has a ‘secret’ list of 190 cities ‘selected’ for refugee settlement.” The claims appear on West’s website in a piece written by Editor-in-Chief Michele Hickford. Writes Hickford, “Between […]

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Telehealth bill moves in Senate, will House take it up?

Email Insights: Ron DeSantis blasts Cuba’s removal from terrorism list

John Legg: Don’t put Florida’s schoolchildren in political crossfire

Jack Stevenson: Marco Rubio's weak spot is his knees

Daniel Tilson: Back to the future with Marco Rubio

Brian Crowley: Should Jeb Bush step aside for Marco Rubio?

Calvin Fondeur: Child care tax credits help working families succeed

DNC slams Marco Rubio’s comments on Cuba being taken off terrorist list

Feds to Florida: Medicaid expansion is better use of tax dollars

Allen West: “Secret” list of cities for Muslim immigrants