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Guest AuthorJune 6, 2017

The United States is in the midst of a public health crisis. Opioid addiction is taking mothers, fathers and children; destroying lives, breaking up families. The problem is particularly insidious in Florida, which has become a destination for rehabilitative services and sober home living. In the first part of 2016, approximately 2,600 people died from opioid overdoses in […]

Mitch PerryJune 6, 2017

Miami Beach House Democrat David Richardson will run for the Congressional District 27 seat being vacated next year by Republican Illeana Ros-Lehtinen. Richardson has served in the Florida House since 2012, when he became the first openly-gay lawmaker elected in Florida. He had been considering entering the race after Ros-Lehtinen announced in late April that she would step […]

Mitch PerryJune 6, 2017

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Democrat Linda Jack, a veterinarian from New Port Richey, has filed to run for the Florida House District 36 seat currently held by Republican Amber Mariano. Dr.Jack is a Florida native who spent many years traveling, performing and teaching as a professional musician, based in New York, Boston and Nashville. She then switched careers after […]

Mitch PerryJune 6, 2017

South Miami Democrat Scott Fuhrman now says he will not be running for the congressional seat being vacated next year by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Fuhrman lost to Ros-Lehtinen last fall by 10 percentage points, 55 to 45 percent, and announced two months ago that he would again challenge the 28-year GOP incumbent in 2018. Ros-Lehtinen surprised the […]

Mitch PerryJune 5, 2017

In 2016, Democrats targeted a handful of Florida House districts they believed they could flip from red to blue. One of them was Hillsborough County’s House District 63, where the Florida Democratic Party put some money behind Lisa Montelione in her bid to oust Republican incumbent Shawn Harrison. After a close race, Harrison ultimately prevailed, 51 to 49 […]

Associated PressJune 5, 2017

President Donald Trump and his GOP allies on Capitol Hill have made it through nearly half their first year in power without a single major legislative achievement. If that’s going to change, it will have to start soon, a reality that Republican lawmakers will confront when they return to the Capitol on Monday from a […]

Associated PressJune 2, 2017

Does he or doesn’t he? Believe in climate change, that is. You’d think that would be an easy enough question the day after President Donald Trump announced he was pulling the U.S. out of the landmark global accord aimed at combating global warming. But don’t bother asking at the White House. “I have not had […]

Joe HendersonJune 2, 2017

The pushback from mayors all over the country began almost immediately after President Donald Trump announced the United States will no longer honor its commitment to the Paris Climate Accord. Medium.com reported Friday morning that 83 mayors from around the country have said they will commit their cities to following the goals that agreement, despite the […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 2, 2017

Breaking with most big city mayors that have thus far opined on President Donald Trump withdrawing from the Paris Accord: Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry. “@realDonaldTrump @POTUS campaigned on American jobs, cutting regs that killed those jobs &he won.He’s doing what he said he would do. #jobs,” Curry Tweeted Thursday evening. Curry, during a press conference Friday morning […]

Mitch PerryJune 2, 2017

Ashley Moody, who served a Hillsborough judge for more than a decade until resigning abruptly in late April, has filed as a Republican candidate for Attorney General. Moody was elected to the 13th Judicial Circuit in 2006 at the age of 31, becoming the youngest judge in Florida. Moody is a 1996 graduate of the University […]

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Timothy Stapleton: Fighting the opioid epidemic in the exam room

David Richardson seeks to bring his brand of reform politics to D.C.

New Port Richey Democrat Linda Jack to challenge Amber Mariano in state House Distirct 36

Scott Furhman will not seek rematch against Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in CD 27

Bob Buckhorn crosses party lines to help Shawn Harrison’s bid for re-election

GOP running out of time for legislative achievements

Does Donald Trump believe in climate change or not? Aides won’t say

Joe Henderson: Bob Buckhorn says Tampa will join other cities honoring Paris Climate Accord goals

Lenny Curry: Paris Accord ‘has no teeth to it’

Former Hillsborough Judge Ashley Moody launches bid for Attorney General