Scott PowersFebruary 12, 2019
6min282
“Manufacturing provides better and more stable employment for American workers."
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Scott PowersFebruary 12, 2019
A.G. GancarskiJanuary 10, 2019
3min509
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio helms the Senate Small Business Committee — and on Thursday he outlined his agenda in that role. “America’s small businesses represent economic dynamism and a sense of community that is often missing from American life. Amidst rapid technological advances, shifting global economic trends, and rising foreign adversaries, we must fight to protect […]
Ryan NicolDecember 17, 2018
5min849
State Sen. Lauren Book has filed a bill (SB 160) which would seek to criminalize the sale of sex dolls designed to look like young children. “A person may not knowingly sell, lend, give away, distribute, transmit, show, or transmute … an obscene, child-like sex doll,” the bill says. “These obscene dolls are being shipped from […]
Blake DowlingNovember 3, 2018
8min272
So far in the 2018 election cycle, we have seen record early and mail voting, as well as the usual mudslinging. For about a month, my mailbox has been stuffed (like me at Thanksgiving) with flyers and mailers. In fact, one really ridiculous one arrived in regard to a local race; a guy who runs […]
Jacob OglesAugust 4, 20184min261
A letter signed by U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and a bipartisan group of senators questions Google’s plans for a censored search engine in China. “This reported plan is deeply troubling and risks making Google complicit in human rights abuses related to China’s rigorous censorship regime,” the letter reads. The letter came two days after The […]
Peter SchorschMay 29, 2018
20min655
Summer is here — well, unofficially at least. And with it comes cookouts, summer vacations, and the final six months of the 2018 campaign. With the busiest election cycle in Florida’s modern history, the answers to these 14 questions (plus a fill-in-the-blank) could shape the future of the state. — Will Marco Rubio fully embrace his […]
Scott PowersMay 23, 2018
6min279
Florida’s Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is amping up his outrage over President Donald Trump‘s desire to prop up the Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE which also is suspected of running espionage in America. Rubio railed against the administration’s intentions to lift sanctions against ZTE during a FOX News interview Tuesday night and then unleashed a […]
A.G. GancarskiApril 2, 2018
4min476
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson met with Anheuser-Busch executives in Jacksonville Monday to address business concerns about the Trump administration’s plan for tariffs on foreign products. The beer execs were concerned that an imposed 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum would cost them millions of dollars and slow down […]
Jim RosicaMarch 27, 2018
4min272
Alleged Russian meddling in American elections may get the headlines, Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio said on Tuesday, but it’s Chinese espionage that worries him more. Rubio, the former Florida House Speaker first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010, spoke with reporters in a rare media briefing in his Tallahassee office on the 21st […]
Guest AuthorOctober 26, 2017
6min423
Recently it was reported by The New York Times that President Xi of China and the Communist Party, in order “To reduce the flow of outsiders to the capital, Airbnb and similar home-sharing services have been temporarily suspended.” Nothing would make the Florida hotel industry and local governments happier than if they could do the […]