March 2017 - Page 19 of 105 - Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.

Mitch PerryMarch 27, 2017

Legislation that would create a regional transit agency connecting four Tampa Bay-area counties breezed through committees in both the House and Senate last week. The proposed agency would be created in advance of a much anticipated Florida Dept. of Transportation transit study scheduled to be completed next year. “It’s a real project. It’s not just talk. […]

Peter SchorschMarch 27, 2017

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Veteran lobbyist Harold “Trey” Price has been named executive director of the Florida Housing Finance Corp. Price announced his hiring on social media Friday. He will take over from interim Executive Director Ken Reecy, who’s been in charge since the resignation of Steve Auger, the previous executive director. Price has his work cut out for him. Auger stepped […]

Peter SchorschMarch 27, 2017

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Jim Rosica, and Florence Snyder. DEBUTING TODAY: THE SPRING 2017 EDITION OF INFLUENCE MAGAZINE INFLUENCE Magazine is mostly about the governmental affairs professionals who shape The Process. But any story about The Process is incomplete without […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 27, 2017

On Monday night, Jacksonville’s ICARE group has its yearly Nehemiah Assembly, at which local faith leaders will call for the reopening of a downtown homeless day resource center closed a couple of years back. Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry has received pressure to come through with money for this purpose, and as of last week, attending the Monday ICARE […]

Washington PostMarch 26, 2017

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The first cocktail party at Barack Obama‘s new office last month was certainly more casual than any he had hosted in recent years. The wine bore a random assortment of labels, as if assembled potluck-style. The self-serve appetizers were set out in the narrow hallway. The host, tieless, eschewed formal remarks, as a few dozen […]

Peter SchorschMarch 26, 2017

The climate is not changing. No one can argue that it is. No, that is not a scientific pronouncement. Instead, those facts apply only to the atmosphere on Capitol Hill. The political climate created by both parties is as heated as ever and has now settled in. Last week’s major skirmish in the 21st century […]

Associated PressMarch 26, 2017

The election of President Donald Trump is giving new impetus to Florida state lawmakers in pushing measures seen as tough on immigration but that have gone nowhere in the Legislature in recent years. Legislators are moving ahead with bills – some of which could face constitutional challenges – that call for harsher sentences for people […]

Associated PressMarch 26, 2017

The Florida NAACP conference on Saturday urged Florida’s governor to return an officer-murder case to a prosecutor who had it taken away after she said her office will no longer seek the death penalty in any cases. NAACP Florida State Conference President Adora Obi Nweze said that the group’s members don’t support Gov. Rick Scott‘s […]

Peter SchorschMarch 26, 2017

In the last seven days, Jacksonville has been — if not the center of the political world — at least a focal point. The Vice President came through to sell health care reform. The Governor came with him and came back two days later to upbraid local members of the Florida House for Enterprise Florida. […]

Guest AuthorMarch 25, 2017

In 2011, the State of Florida elected to move long-term care (LTC) into the Statewide Medicaid Managed Care (SMMC) program, as the escalating costs of providing care at more institutional-style settings, like nursing homes, to an aging baby boomer population was creating a looming health care crisis. For most families, the decision to move a […]

Month: March 2017

Tampa Bay Partnership on board with Jack Latvala-Dan Raulerson bill creating regional transit agency

Personnel note: Trey Price to head Florida Housing

Sunburn for 3.27.17 – INFLUENCE Mag debuts; Cary Pigman blows bad; Justice League coming together

Why Jacksonville may not get its homeless day resource center after all

Two months out of office, Barack Obama is having a post-presidency like no other

The Delegation – Insights from the Beltway to the Sunshine State – 3.30.17

In this era of Trump, Florida legislators take on hard-line immigration policies

NAACP urges Rick Scott to return case to prosecutor

Jacksonville Bold for 3.26.17 – Focal Point

Audrey Brown: Long-term care key to quality of life for Florida Medicaid seniors