Anne GeggisJune 6, 2023
6min0
For some 780,000 state employees and current retirees, aspects of their retirement will be like 2011 again.
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Anne GeggisJune 6, 2023
Peter SchorschMay 5, 2023
3min0
Public employees are walking away with several restored benefits.
Jacob OglesMarch 10, 2023
5min0
The bills would allow teachers near retirement to work without compromising benefits.
Scott PowersAugust 6, 2020
4min683
Officials worry prolonged revenue shortfalls will quickly become unsustainable.
Scott PowersMarch 9, 2020
3min261
The price of crude oil has fallen $20 per barrel in two weeks.
Scott PowersDecember 10, 2018
3min469
Juvenile arrests fell sharply in Florida for the second consecutive fiscal year, led by counties such as Orange, Miami-Dade and Hillsborough that are aggressively pushing civil citations, diversion programs, and other initiatives to deal with juvenile crime other than arrests. Overall, Florida saw an 8 percent drop in juvenile arrests, and a 10 percent drop […]
Florence SnyderMarch 6, 2017
4min344
Jackie Pons is still the kind of public official who gave Florida’s Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP) a very bad name. To refresh our recollection on a pol best-forgotten, if he’d only go away, Pons lost his bid for re-election November as Leon County’s Superintendent of Schools. As a DROP-enrollee since 2014, he was entitled […]
A.G. GancarskiMarch 7, 2016
3min217
Political cronies abound at Mike Hogan’s Duval County Supervisor of Elections office. One example is former GOP pollster John Libby. Another one upon whom we’ve focused recently is former Jacksonville City Council president, former State House member, and current State House candidate Dick Kravitz. Kravitz endorsed Hogan in the spring, with a mailer trumpeting this apparent coup. Yet no mailer […]
Mitch PerryFebruary 2, 2015
5min197
On his last day on the job as the executive directors of both the Hillsborough County MPO and the Planning Commission last week, Ray Chiaramonte learned that he would be immediately transitioning to a new gig – after being selected to become the next executive director of TBARTA, the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority. The still very vibrant […]