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Scott PowersNovember 19, 2018

Make room on those highways. There will be 48.7 million of you traveling 50 miles or more to go home for Thanksgiving this week, an increase of 1 million travelers compared to last year. That’s according to the latest projections from AAA as the Thanksgiving holiday weekend approaches. This year will see the most Thanksgiving […]

Staff ReportsNovember 16, 2018

U.S. Senate race to Tribbles, Hail Marys The machine recount totals are in, for the most part, and there are no surprises. Gov. Rick Scott still leads Sen. Bill Nelson, by roughly the same margin as when the recount began. All counties, with the exception of Palm Beach, completed recounts for the Senate race by […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 16, 2018

Republican Ron DeSantis, the 40-year-old former three-term Congressman, has defeated Democrat Andrew Gillum to become the next Governor of Florida after a mandated machine recount. The win was just 0.4 percent, a spread of 33,652 votes. The gubernatorial race, like the U.S. Senate and Agriculture Commissioner contests, had margins under the 0.50 percent threshold that triggers a recount. With the margin more than […]

Peter SchorschNovember 15, 2018

Last Call — A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics. First Shot ICYMI — Ron DeSantis has lined up some solid candidates, including familiar names from the Capitol, to be his chief of staff. Click here to find out who’s in the running so far. — A federal judge today rejected U.S. […]

Peter SchorschNovember 14, 2018

Last Call — A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics. First Shot Scoop: Carol Gormley, not Jason Rojas, to serve as @RepJoseOliva chief of staff. #FlaPol — Peter Schorsch (@PeterSchorschFL) November 14, 2018 — As of Last Call’s deadline, Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker was still questioning attorneys in Democratic U.S. […]

Peter SchorschNovember 13, 2018

Last Call — A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics. First Shot Yet another federal lawsuit has been filed the aftermath of the 2018 midterm election in Florida. Miami attorney Benedict P. Kuehne, on behalf of eight registered voters in Florida, filed suit late Tuesday afternoon against Secretary of State Ken Detzner, […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorNovember 13, 2018

The University of South Florida is joining a national effort to increase college access and boodt by hundreds of thousands the numbers of degrees awarded by the year 2025. USF will be part of a group of 130 public universities working together to close the achievement gap between minority, low-income students and their non-minority peers. […]

Staff ReportsNovember 13, 2018

Florida’s latest recount drama: new players, issues It has been 18 years since the state of Florida got rid of punch cards and ultimately replaced them with scanners or similar equipment. With no more hanging chads, what could go wrong? Most of the country has moved on from the 2018 elections, but in Florida, we […]

Peter SchorschNovember 12, 2018

Last Call — A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics. First Shot U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson isn’t “follow(ing) the basic rules of the road” — the legal road, that is. That’s what attorneys for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) told a federal judge Monday, objecting to Nelson’s request for a court […]

Staff ReportsNovember 9, 2018

Three Rs from election night: realignment, recount, Reconstruction Three days after Election Day, most things are settled, but in the nation’s largest purple state, the race for the U.S. Senate seat is going to overtime with plenty of uncertainty. At the same time, there are several things we do know about Tuesday night. Democrats had […]

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