Staff ReportsJune 28, 2019
7min501
”Our system of governance (must) remain open and accessible to its people.“
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Staff ReportsJune 28, 2019
Jim SaundersJune 20, 2019
5min288
“Hurchalla’s comments were represented as statements of fact, as opposed to statements of pure opinion ... "
Drew WilsonMay 28, 2019
4min389
A complaint says the Cabinet meeting violates the Sunshine Law.
Staff ReportsFebruary 14, 2019
Jacob OglesJanuary 8, 2019
7min614
Joe Gruters wants to stop ethics complaints from being used as political cudgels. Now the Republican state senator from Sarasota is proposing a solution that could add a layer of secrecy to the process. His bill (SB 228) would prohibit the Florida Ethics Commission from making public ethics complaints made against a candidate within 60 […]
Staff ReportsJuly 11, 2018
6min393
The call for entries is out for The Parker Thomson Awards for Outstanding Legal Journalism in Florida and the Susan Spencer-Wendel Lifetime Achievement Award, The Florida Bar announced Wednesday. For the Thomson awards, work submitted for consideration may include news stories, series, features, editorials, blogs, documentaries, columns, special sections — anything that is produced by a news […]
Peter SchorschJanuary 25, 2018
4min704
A proposed Constitution Revision Commission (CRC) amendment on “privacy” for the 2018 ballot could unravel protections guaranteed to Floridians, according to one of the lawmakers who wrote the state’s 1980 privacy amendment. The proposal, sponsored by Constitution Revision Commissioner John Stemberger and drafted by former Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Bell, would add 10 words to […]
Staff ReportsJanuary 24, 2018
16min439
Editor’s note: Miami Herald journalist Carol Marbin Miller and former Herald reporter Audra D.S. Burch became the first recipients of the Lucy Morgan Award for Open Government Reporting, recognized for the series “Fight Club: Dark Secrets of Florida Juvenile Justice.” Established in November by the First Amendment Foundation, the award is named for Pulitzer Prize-winning Tampa […]
Mitch PerryJanuary 5, 2018
8min336
One might think that the Tampa Bay Times’ Tim Nickens, as editorial page editor of Tampa Bay’s biggest daily newspaper, might be subjected to tough questions about the paper’s coverage and/or editorial stances when he spoke before the politically savvy Cafe Con Tampa crowd at the Oxford Exchange Friday morning. Those tough questions were asked, but they were […]
Ana CeballosNovember 1, 2017
4min381
A proposed amendment to the state constitution tweaking the right to privacy sparked a debate over abortion when pro-choice advocates argued the new language would weaken access to the procedure. The issue came up Wednesday during a committee meeting of the Constitution Revision Commission, which is reviewing and considering changes to the state’s governing document. The […]