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Mitch PerryJuly 29, 2015

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Many higher education officials, teachers and parents cheered this year when a single Florida GOP senator killed proposed legislation that would allow holders of concealed weapons permits to carry guns on Florida college and university campuses. Although the bill cleared three committees in the House and two in the Senate, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Miguel Diaz […]

Shannon NickinsonJuly 28, 2015

Can we put our money where our mouth is? That’s the question the Studer Community Institute’s metro dashboard is meant to ask — and hopefully answer. The dashboard aims to be a road map to help build citizen-powered change, to make Pensacola a stronger, more vibrant community. A guide to know if our community is […]

Ryan RayJuly 28, 2015

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If things break as the Florida Supreme Court has foreshadowed, House Majority Leader Dana Young might be headed to the state Senate. While sources are conflicted as to whether a likely re-drawing of the upper chamber’s district boundaries will leave Young with a viable district, there is broad agreement on one thing: if she runs, she’ll certainly be competitive. “If a […]

Phil AmmannJuly 28, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott appointed Miami-Dade grower Sam Accursio to the South Florida Water Management District, the regional agency that administers water resources for 16 counties. SFWMD serves 8.1 million customers from Orlando south to the Florida Keys. Accursio, 52, of Homestead, owns Sam S. Accursio & Sons Farms, which cultivates 2,000 acres in Miami-Dade County. […]

Phil AmmannJuly 27, 2015

Florida Medical Association PAC (FMA PAC) is endorsing dermatologist Ralph Massullo in his bid for Florida House District 34. In announcing the group’s support, FMA PAC President Chris Pittman noted the importance of supporting one of their own. “As founder and president of his dermatology practice,” Pittman said Monday in a statement, “Dr. Massullo has […]

Guest AuthorJuly 27, 2015

I’m a Southern, white, gun-owning male who worries one day my family will have to pay the price for America’s unwillingness to stand up to the gun lobby. I know that sounds counter-intuitive, but hear me out. I grew up bouncing BBs off the backs of the alligators in Lake Newnan outside of Gainesville, Fla. […]

Marc YachtJuly 26, 2015

The recent Lafayette, La., theater shooting left two young women dead and nine injured; some with multiple gunshot wounds. The killer took his own life. The carnage has followed too many recent gun-related tragedies and demands attention for adequately funded comprehensive mental health services and sensible firearms regulation. The conservative mantras that “government cannot be […]

Guest AuthorJuly 26, 2015

Florida’s nine national parks are suffering, needing about $190 million in crucial maintenance left unfunded and neglected at the end of the last fiscal year, the National Park Service reports. Everglades National Park ended the past fiscal year with $58.8 million in unmet needs while Dry Tortugas National Park’s unfunded maintenance totaled $56.8 million, according […]

Peter SchorschJuly 25, 2015

Feld Entertainment, a global leader in live family entertainment, is moving its Illinois-based Motor Sports Division to Manatee County in 2015. Feld, which had its global headquarters in Ellenton since 2013, is best known for producing live shows such as Disney On Ice and Disney Live!, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, Monster Jam, Monster […]

Ryan RayJuly 24, 2015

House District 49 Democratic candidate Carlos Guillermo Smith announced to a rally of fast food workers he will stand with them in gesture of solidarity by agreeing to temporarily live on Florida’s minimum wage $8.05 an hour. The move, which liberal legislators such as Sen. Dwight Bullard and Rep. Cynthia Stafford have mirrored in the past, comes amid […]

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Guns-on-campuses bill coming back to Florida Legislature in 2016

Shannon Nickinson: Make smarter community investments for a better future

Dana Young for Florida Senate?

Gov. Scott names Sam Accursio to South Florida Water Management District

FMA PAC endorses one of their own, Ralph Massullo for House District 34

Eric Conrad: We’re just haggling over price

Marc Yacht: Will yet another gun tragedy finally lead to change?

Joseph H. Carter: Sheer neglect threatens Florida’s national parks

Feld Entertainment announces major relocation to Manatee County in 2015

House candidate Carlos Smith accepts minimum wage challenge