Jesse SchecknerFebruary 28, 2024
5min0
This year’s request is a 175% increase over last year.
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Jesse SchecknerFebruary 28, 2024
Peter SchorschMarch 19, 2023
3min0
The Cure on Wheels team will present a $70,000 check from the previous ride.
Peter SchorschMarch 7, 2023
4min0
The proposed bills would match patients with the most effective treatment.
Christine Jordan SextonMarch 2, 2022
4min0
'There is a warrior that is standing up for cancer treatment in Florida and her name is Casey DeSantis.'
Drew WilsonNovember 13, 2020
4min621
Becker has raised over $50,000 for pancreatic cancer research.
Janelle Irwin TaylorSeptember 16, 2019
5min680
The move would raise $22 million annually.
Jim RosicaMarch 20, 2018
5min565
After nearly an hour of discussion, a Constitution Revision Commission (CRC) proposal that would affect the state’s efforts to reduce smoking was postponed Tuesday. CRC member and House Speaker pro tempore Jeanette Nuñez, who filed the measure (P94), pulled it from the floor after several commissioners questioned its necessity. Tobacco Free Florida, the state’s tobacco prevention and cessation program, […]
Staff ReportsMarch 16, 2018
3min252
Despite a proposed tweak to a constitutional amendment, the Protect Tobacco Free Florida coalition says it still opposes the underlying measure. The proposal (P94), filed by Constitution Revision Commission (CRC) member and House Speaker pro tempore Jeanette Nuñez, originally would have redirected dollars from tobacco-prevention efforts to cancer research. Nuñez on Wednesday filed an “amendment to the […]
Jim RosicaMarch 14, 2018
6min661
If passed, a proposed constitutional amendment to redirect dollars from tobacco-prevention efforts to cancer research would turn “a bad idea into a hard reality,” one opponent said Wednesday morning. Later that same day, however, the amendment’s sponsor deleted the section about cancer research funding. Longtime Tallahassee PR man Ron Sachs joined former Attorney General Bob Butterworth […]
Jim RosicaOctober 7, 20152min286
A bill filed in the Legislature Wednesday would erase the state’s hodgepodge system of taxing cigarettes and instead impose a standard $2 surcharge on each pack sold in Florida. It would also end the practice of allowing manufacturers to give away free sample packs of cigarettes. The legislation (HB 335), brought by Democratic state Rep. Richard Stark of Weston, […]