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Christine Jordan SextonApril 6, 2015

A move to prevent doctors and hospitals from balance billing insured patients who go out-of-network for emergency services and care appears dead for the session. The Senate Banking and Insurance Committee temporarily passed the measure — SB 516 — at its meeting this past week and the bill is not slated to be heard in […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 6, 2015

On Monday in the Jacksonville mayoral race, the Lenny Curry campaign made a surprising challenge: debate Mayor Alvin Brown in every city council district, in addition to debating him in the Action News Jax debate on May 6. Curry proposed adding “a series of town hall meetings, one for each Jacksonville City Council district, from next […]

Guest AuthorApril 6, 2015

If there was any doubt that House Appropriations Chairman and Speaker-In-Waiting Richard Corcoran is a conservative crusader whose commitment to his principles leaves him indifferent to comity, convention and the nuances of legislative diplomacy, that doubt was laid to rest last week when he went on a rampage through the legislative china shop. It began […]

Ryan RayApril 6, 2015

The long tail of legislative seat-hopping put into motion when former Sen. John Thrasher decided to resign to become Florida State University’s new president will come to an end Tuesday. Special elections are slated to be held in Senate District 6 — Thrasher’s old seat — as well as House Districts 24 and 17, which Reps. Travis Hutson and “Doc” Renuart were enticed […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 6, 2015

Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown’s re-election campaign on Monday doubled down on its “zero tolerance” policy for Zakee Fur’qan. Campaign Manager Isaiah Nelson said the campaign plans to donate Fur’qan’s 2011 donation of $200 to the first Brown campaign. “This individual is not a part in our campaign in any way. To ensure that is clear, we will […]

Guest AuthorApril 6, 2015

If there was any doubt that House Appropriations Chairman and Speaker-In-Waiting Richard Corcoran is a conservative crusader whose commitment to his principles leaves him indifferent to comity, convention and the nuances of legislative diplomacy, that doubt was laid to rest last week when he went on a rampage through the legislative china shop. It began […]

Daniel TilsonApril 6, 2015

Looks like Gov. Rick Scott wants to “keep working” past January 2018. That’s when our next governor gets inaugurated. But that doesn’t mean the term-limited Scott wants to give us a break. Think you’ll need some Scott-free psychic space where you can look back in anger and heal the wounds his administration inflicted on you […]

Martin DyckmanApril 6, 2015

The original Religious Freedom Restoration Act – RFRA for short – was intended to protect faith-based practices from unnecessary government interference. That’s the opposite of trying to use it to justify faith-based discrimination against others. But of course irony and hypocrisy are hardly strangers to politics. Congress enacted RFRA in 1993 in response to the […]

Shannon NickinsonApril 6, 2015

9,071 years. That is what Escambia County lost in a year based on the health outcomes reported in by the University of Wisconsin and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. That measure – years of potential life lost before the age of 75 – is the bottom line of the county health rankings released March 25. Many […]

Guest AuthorApril 6, 2015

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is, in the words often attributed to Einstein, the definition of insanity. Unfortunately for Floridians, so too are the calls today to expand our state’s Medicaid system under the Affordable Care Act. After decades of failed reforms, this $450 billion federal health care […]

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Aerial photo courtesy Jesse Biter.

CFO’s priority bill on out-of-network emergency care killed in Senate?

Alvin Brown campaign calls Lenny Curry debate challenge letter “partisan trick”

Jack Stevenson: House will pay for Richard Corcoran’s Medicaid rant

John Thrasher-induced limbo to be resolved in Northeast Florida special elections Tuesday

Alvin Brown to donate 2011 Zakee Fur’qan donation to charity

Jack Stevenson: House will pay for Richard Corcoran's Medicaid rant

Daniel Tilson: Gov. Rick Scott angling for Sen. Bill Nelson's seat in 2018

Martin Dyckman: Religious freedom isn't license to discriminate

Shannon Nickinson: Preventing the loss of thousands of years of life

Chris Hudson: An alternative to Medicaid expansion