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Mitch PerryApril 9, 2015

The Florida House on Thursday passed a measure that would let private agencies who cite religious or moral grounds to turn away gay couples seeking to adopt children. By a 75-38 vote, HB 7111, sponsored by Sanford Republican Jason Brodeur, was passed. Brodeur proposed the legislation only after the House voted last month to repeal the […]

Associated PressApril 9, 2015

Charter flights will start this summer between Orlando and Cuba. Officials at Orlando International Airport on Thursday said Island Travel and Tours will begin nonstop flights to Cuba in July. The company plans to use Boeing 737-300 aircraft with a capacity of 120 passengers – 112 in coach and eight in first class. Travelers to […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 9, 2015

With yet another police-involved shooting in Jacksonville on Wednesday, Sheriff’s candidate Mike Williams, in the interest of “transparency and community trust building,” seeks to open Response to Resistance board meetings to the public. They have been closed since 2010. “As a candidate for sheriff, and the only one who actually ran the Response to Resistance (RTR) […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 9, 2015

In the First Election in March, incumbent Jacksonville District 14 City Councilman Jim Love, a Republican, won handily over Jason Tetlak, an idealistic Democrat who will be remembered for losing the support of his party by endorsing Bill Bishop for mayor. A fixture in the Riverside/Avondale area (and one who lives eight houses down from me), Love has […]

Melissa RossApril 9, 2015

Standing in the shadow of the city’s Tillie Fowler Memorial, a bipartisan group of female supporters endorsed incumbent Mayor Alvin Brown for re-election, saying Brown kept his promises and has empowered women and men alike to succeed. The group included former WNBA President and Generation W founder Donna Orender and Brown’s former Chief Administrative Officer Karen […]

Bruce RitchieApril 9, 2015

A bill that delays a ban on the disposal of septic tank waste on farm fields across the state passed the House in anticipation of a state study of the waste disposal practice. Florida has 2.6 million septic tanks scattered across the state that annually produce 100 million gallons of waste, called septage, when they […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 9, 2015

Health insurers and HMOs may have won the battle in a House health care committee on Thursday but they may end up losing the war this session. The House Health and Human Services Committee approved a bill that would ban non-participating providers from balance billing patients in need of emergency care under, CS/HB 681. Additionally, […]

James CallApril 9, 2015

Licenses to grow and dispense medicinal cannabis under last year’s “Charlotte’s Web” law may be coming soon. The Department of Health would award licenses for medicinal marijuana 75 days after a Charlotte’s Web glitch bill becomes law, according to SPB 7066, a proposal approved Thursday by the Senate Rules Committee. Rules was SPB 7066’s last […]

Mitch PerryApril 9, 2015

At 10 a.m, and again at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, a group of activists performed a skit along the Florida Capitol courtyard — acting out a scene where eight condemned people line up next to an executioner. Their crime? Condemned to die for not having health insurance. The players were from Catalyist, a Miami-based community organization […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 9, 2015

If there is one signature event of the Alvin Brown administration, it’s One Spark. The One Spark week allows the Brown team to showcase how its public-private partnerships have helped to transform Jacksonville’s downtown, giving it a verve it hasn’t had in decades. With One Spark being so high-profile and so popular, it allows for a functional […]

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Florida House approves law to allow private agencies to turn away gay couples from adopting

Charter flights planned between Orlando and Cuba

Mike Williams wants open RTR hearings

Jim Love talks Jax cross-party endorsements and why he’s staying neutral

Leading women endorse Alvin Brown at Tillie Fowler memorial

Bill delaying septic waste ban passes House with calls for study, springs protection

House panel OKs balance billing ban, sponsor says unlikely to pass this year

Senate Rules committee approves Charlotte’s Web fix

Activists hold Medicaid gap “public execution” in Capitol courtyard

Alvin Brown, Jim Love announce Florida Theatre facade restoration